If you want a positive experience to take root and start informing your life, you have to on purpose sustain your attention and actually in an embodied way feel the pleasantness of it. And then it goes into implicit memory and then it’s available for recall. So this really is a very explicit training of the mind.

Tara Brach, Part 1 – Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom

Tara makes the point that you need to give the experience at least 15-30 seconds if you want it to become a trait over time. Watch or listen to the whole episode of Part 1 – Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom with Tara Brach here.

I think stories is what moves the world, whether it’s an inspirational story or it’s an informational one, nothing in this world moves without story be it in the political world, sports world. Nothing that we have moves without story and so I think that is the root of everything and if we’re gonna try and make the world a better place, a story’s the right place.

Kobe Bryant, Mamba Mentality and The Mind of a Champion, School of Greatness with Lewis Howes

Listen to the whole episode on Mamba Mentality and The Mind of a Champion here.