“The sweet spot: that productive, uncomfortable terrain located just beyond our current abilities, where our reach exceeds our grasp. Deep practice is not simply about struggling; it's about seeking a particular struggle, which involves a cycle of distinct actions.” ActionAbilityPracticeStruggleParticularSweetCurrentsSeekingSpotsUncomfortableProductiveCyclesExceedTerrain Book:The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown Source: The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown
“My weakness is sweets. I like bread pudding and cheesecake in particular.” ParticularSweetWeaknessBreadPuddingCheesecakeBread Pudding Author:Vivek Murthy
“How do you view God in a desert? There's two types of birds. There's vultures, and there's hummingbirds. One lives off dead carcasses, rotting meat. The other lives off the beautiful, sweet, nectar in a particular flower, on a particular desert plant, in the same desert. They both find what they're looking for. Do you know - take it all the way back into the Old Testament - and the Muslim and you, we actually serve the same God. Allah, to a Muslim; to us, Abba Father, God.” KnowsWayTwoBeautifulFatherViewsParticularSweetFlowerTypeBirdPlantDesertMeatDo You KnowTestamentOld TestamentRottingVultureNectarAbbaHummingbirdsAbba Father Author:Brian Houston
“Italians in particular are seen as either benign and child-like (the sweet old nonna with her meatballs), menacing mobsters, or hyper-sexualized housewives and gigolos; the kind of nourishment I'm looking for doesn't lie in any of these stereotypes.” KindChildrenLyingParticularSweetStereotypeNourishmentHousewifeBenignHyperMobsterMeatballsGigolo Author:Christopher Castellani
“As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work - the implications are very rich and the temptation to think of the outcome of these masses of the mainstream injecting my work into the marketplace, it's a very sweet speculation.” ThinkingDoeSongCasesRichParticularSweetMassSingersTemptationOutcomesRejoiceMainstreamSpeculationMarketplaceImplicationsVery Sweet Author:Leonard Cohen
“If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but instead something more subtle. The effect is something like a cognitive seizure, marked by changes of personality, hyperreligiosity (an obsession with religion and feelings of religious certainity), hypergraphia (extensive writing on a subject, usually about religion), the false sense of an external presence, and, often, the hearing voices that are attributed to a god. Some fraction of history´s prophets, martyrs, and leaders appear to have had temporal lobe epilepsy.” IfsWritingPersonsFeelingsVoiceReligiousLeaderSubjectsEffectsParticularSweetPersonalityHearingFocusedObsessionSpotsProphetSubtleMartyrMotorFractionsCognitiveSeizuresEpilepsyHearing VoicesEpileptics Author:David Eagleman
“Who is he when he isn't Dauntless, isn't an instructor, isn't Four, isn't anything in particular? Whoever he is, I like him. It's easier to admit that to myself now, in the dark, after all that just happened. He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. That is all I need to know.” KnowsNeedsKindStrongDarkFourHappenedParticularSweetEasierSmartBraveSavedTreatedGentleInstructorsDauntlessI Like Him Author:Veronica Roth