I find that my life fluctuates between two internal states: war and peace.

War feels like being fired, falling sick, or getting a divorce. It feels like stress, wanting, desire, dissatisfaction, danger, or being off-balance.

Peace feels like finding a new job, becoming healthy again, or entering a new and loving relationship. It feels like satisfaction, contentment, satiation, or love.

War feels like being asked a question, and peace feels like finding an answer.

And although I want everlasting peace, I find war to be the dominant state of my internal life. War acts as a necessary precursor to peace. To better navigate the battle within, I plan to take quotes from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, combine them with my own life experience, and create an original set of principles.

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This essay explores the relationship between satiation and lasting behavioural change.

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In episode 1 of the FIT podcast, me and Jay (from Med School Insiders) discuss our top 3 productivity tips.

Things mentioned in the video:

MSI's pomodoro video: http://bit.ly/2uVol0U

My pomodoro video: http://bit.ly/2wiKhEF

My video on deep work: http://bit.ly/2wj0ZUi

MSI's video on the Feynman technique: http://bit.ly/2g0SXce