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MasterClass

Week One	Reframing	Mindfulness	Challenge	Physical Exercise	Sleep	Virtuous cycles	Vicious cycles
Week Two	Anxiety	Amygdala	Top-Down Neuroscience	Sympathetics / Parasympathetics	Dread	Worry and Rumination	Threat Mode	Resilience, Anti-Fragility, Grit	Adrenaline, Yerkes-Dodson	Acceptance
Week Three	Front-Back Neuroscience	Default Mode Network (default attention)	Task Positive Network (task attention)	Salience	Meta-Awareness	Flow	Distraction	Deadline benefit
Week Four	Right-Left Neuroscience	Growth mindset vs Fixed mindset	Frustration and Satisfaction	Self-concepts	Ideals	Encouragement	Service	Vital engagement

Key Claims

• Anxiety
• Ideals
• Distraction
• Work
• Self-concepts
• Service

Topic Overview

Our approach focuses on three "problems" — anxiety, distraction, and self-concepts — and three corresponding "solutions" — ideals, work, and service. Each problem-solution pair relates to a part of the brain: anxiety and ideals relate to the amygdala versus the appraisal cortex; distraction and work relate to task attention and default attention; and self-concepts and service relate to the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

Resolving the problem, and striving for the solution involves applying the three parts of the soul — intellect, memory, and will — in a particular way.

Part of the soul	Anxiety -> Acceptance	Distraction -> Work	Hyperfocus -> Ideals
Intellect	Reframing	Order	Sincerity
Memory	Mindfulness	Intensity	Humility
Will	Challenge	Constancy	Generosity

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