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Better Inside EP 33
Ammar Sheikh
January 22, 2024
Better Inside Newsletter
Hello Adventurers!
Being happy to write each week and provide value in someone's life gives me another level of satisfaction. I recently felt this when my work expanded internationally, which I wasn't supposed to discuss. One of my team members shared an appreciation video from Ali Abdaal, a digital creator I really like to follow in the personal development niche. Additionally, I was invited to the Fitellect podcast where I shared my two cents about the self-help industry and my passion for neuroscience. I recently explored a concept in my life, "Live each day." I realized that when we wake up each day, we are constantly chasing our future dreams and feeling anxious or stressed about what lies ahead.
To turn off this anxious mode, I started to see each day as an opportunity to live in the moment. Although my mind constantly sends signals to worry about the future, I respond by focusing on the present day. This shift has changed my mental model, I now give 100% to today and don't worry about the future. It's a relief I'm experiencing in my life.
Here are three steps for implementing this mindset:
1. Write a morning journal about today.
2. Practice meditation to think and focus on today's activities.
3. Reflect on how you will feel at the end of the day.
Try incorporating this mindset into your life, and you may see outstanding results.
Rewire your brain to think only about today. Also, this week was very productive for me with lots of new learnings and exploration about life. I hope you all are doing great. If not, then keep trying, keep pushing yourself, keep moving forward, and keep going.
Love,
Ammar
💌 Things I Love the Most
AI Tools for Productivity
Camp AI: Extract text, people, location, and music from your screenshots using AI.
Photify: Transform your selfie into thousands of different looks.
Notion*: Notion is the connected workspace for your docs, projects, and knowledge, where better, faster work happens. Try it now
Equals: Write, edit, and fix SQL queries, formulas, charts, and more right inside your spreadsheet.
Modelize AI: Generate custom workflows instantly for your team projects, marketing campaigns, and more.
PopAI: A personal AI assistant that can read any document, draft long articles, suggest coding solutions, or help with data analysis.
DGM: A web application that simplifies the creation of various diagram types, from initial idea sketches to formal notations like UML and ERD.
PlayPlay: An AI video assistant that helps create engaging videos for social media, ad creative, and more.
Weekly Quote:
It’s not about managing emotions, its about managing your reaction to your emotions.
My Weekly Journaling Prompts:
In what areas of your life have you felt pressured to be “normal?” In which of these areas has that pressure caused problems for you?
What are the first small steps you can take towards making it happen this week?
What are some realistic expectations for progress you can hold, to prevent yourself from getting discouraged and burning out (by February)?
Video Of The Week :
A Podcast Worth Listening: 🦻
Remote Jobs: 🧑🏭
Part-Time Researcher/Writerat the Institute for Human Rights and Business.Remote.
Part-Time Social Media Specialist at Asian Mental Health Project. Remote.
Learning Community Lead at Trust, Accountability and Inclusion Collaborative. Remote.
Project Officer - Host Liaison: DDI at CIVICUS. Remote.
Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist at Wikimedia Foundation. Remote.
Part-Time Youth Engagement Consultant at Elevate Children Funders Group. Remote.
Program Coordinator at MovingWorlds. Remote.
Juicy Reads to Check Out: 📰
Scientists unlock secrets of imagination and memory formation with AITweets of the Week:
New advances in AI are helping scientists read our brains (well, sort of). Researchers at University College London’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience used an AI model known as a generative neural network to find how memories help us remember, imagine and plan.
The AI model featured networks representing the hippocampus and neocortex parts of the brain to understand how both areas interact with each other. The researchers found that instead of remembering events with complete accuracy, our brains imagine the past based on concepts, combining some stored details with our expectations about what might have happened.
According to the study, this process helps our brains pick up on patterns from past experiences that can be used to make future predictions. Extremely handy in situations where we use past patterns to make predictions about the future that help us avoid danger, find food and so on.
Meme Of The Week:
Reminder:
Fall in love with the process. Maybe you are feeling overwhelmed, maybe you are tempted to give up, but if you fall in love with your process, you will not care about the results. That gives you freedom and fun.
Article Of The Week:
Global Fellowships:
Mozilla Tech + Society Fellowship: This program seeks to address challenges at the intersection of social issues and technology in the Global South by strengthening civil society, in partnership with key organizations and public interest technologists.
2024 Women's Leadership Program: A fellowship open to outstanding candidates from every country in the EF global network, inviting a group of 20-25 dynamic women leaders from all professional fields working to strengthen civic participation and good governance to go to the United States for a unique six-week program.
Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Program: A program hosted by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention focusing on supporting aspirational public health leaders from Africa in acquiring advanced skills and competencies to strategize, manage and lead public health programmes that will transform public health in Africa.
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See you next week. 🙂