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  This was one of The Great Courses on Audible delivered by Anthony A. Goodman, an American breast cancer surgeon and author, and it was long.   To be precise, 18 hours and 16 minutes long.   Here’s what I found interesting and worth remembering.   1 Degree Change Small changes can make a big difference. A one-degree course change for a ship makes a significant difference in a long time. In the same way, if you start with small positive changes, over time, your efforts will culminate in a substantial positive effect on your health.   This is a great advice in all aspects.   James Clear also talked about the 1% improvement.   Moderation   Moderation is key. Just as your body is designed to achieve homeostasis, it’s important for you to find balance when making choices regarding food, exercise, and other areas that affect your health and wellbeing.   The professor doesn’t believe in any specific diets including keto, low carb and etc. based on ...

Full Podcast  & Full Video The topic today was about “productivity”, again because this is a very broad topic and what we did for last episode wasn’t nearly scratching the surface.  Tons of people in the world pour their time and effort only to focus on the best productivity hacks.  Just to give you a perspective, the google result of “productivity hack” is 33,600,000 (Oct 13th, 2020) which is more than “Oprah Winfrey” with 25,800,000 search results. So, what is productivity? Based on the explanation from wikipedia, “__Productivity describes various measures of the efficiency of production. Often, a productivity measure is expressed as the ratio of an aggregate output to a single input or an aggregate input used in a production process, i.e. “ output per unit of input, typically over a specific period of time ”. Since I’ve been reading and studying “How can a person (me) be better”, the underline part of productivity really got me thinking. If the output is one’s crea...