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January 11th, 2026 - #663 - read online - Free Version Welcome to Brain Food, your weekly signal in a world full of noise. Tiny ThoughtsIf you don’t give your life a direction, the world will give it a distraction. ** Intensity makes for a good story. Consistency makes for good results. *** Edit yourself for approval and you become a minority shareholder in your own life. The cost of being easy to live with is destroying the person who has to do the living. InsightsBenjamin Franklin on the best investment: "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." ** Stephen and Mara Klemich on love: "Love is our greatest need. Rejection is our greatest fear. We spend our lives seeking love and avoiding rejection." *** Former UFC champion Georges St-Pierre on accepting fear: "When I was young, I thought that nervousness and fear would disappear over time. But I realized that not only does it not disappear, it gets even worse. The only thing that changed is, now I accept it. I know it’s going to be there. I know how to deal with it. Now, with experience, I know I’m gonna be scared when the fight is coming; I know I’m not going to sleep well the week of the fight, but I accept it. [Early on in my career] I would freak out, sleeping only four hours the night before a fight. I put more pressure on myself, because I thought I wouldn’t be able to perform my best because of lack of sleep. But now I know it’s normal. I accept it. It’s a suffering process that I have to go through before a fight. But it’s still as bad as it was; the only difference is that I accept it now." The Knowledge ProjectAs I decided to release the episode on better habits on Jan 1, there is no new episode this week. I wanted to draw your attention to some clips from the episode, in case you missed them. + making invisible progress visible + one of the greatest lessons in life + our desire for belonging over accuracy (with some push back from a previous guest) + who you follow online determines your thoughts
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