3  Accelerator

Because running fast is more fun than running slow.

—FRANK SHORTER

You are here.

In the sweet spot.

It often creeps up on you unawares. From “I’m stressed out; I can’t do this,” things gradually shift. Like waiting to recover from an illness and slowly improving but not really noticing, until one day, you are better. We notice pain much more readily than we notice improvement.

But now that you are here, something marvelous is happening in your brain: it’s changing. When you understand how it’s changing and why, you can grow even faster.

Our brains are more than mere processors—they’re predictors. They are continuously ...

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