Compelling exploration of how creative minds function: As psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who has interviewed creative people across various fields points out, creative people “show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead…
neuroscience
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LeWeb: Adam Gazzaley will fix your brain with neurogames
What’s the state of the art of improving cognition? Take a 60 year old with attention impairment. Well, he’s unlikely to get functional brain imaging. So, he’ll be diagnosed and given a drug. Right now we do…
Meaning - Joel and Michelle Levey: you can rewrite your brain
Joel and Michelle Levey build resilient lives and organisations through mindfulness The Leveys work with the military in the US – for six months at a time. They work to allow soldiers to stop fighting a war inside, through their Jedi…
You need a holiday, says neuroscience
When you’re two years old, a busy day just needs a restorative nap, while you are carried home by your parents. When you’re older, and your productivity matters, you need more than that: Increasing creativity will happen naturally…
Stop working so damn hard
You shouldn’t put in so many hours working. Why? The perplexing thing about the cult of overwork is that, as we’ve known for a while, long hours diminish both productivity and quality. Among industrial workers, overtime raises the…
What question does an innovator ask?
“Why?”: Innovators ask a ton of questions. In fact, they treat the world as a question. Managers ask ‘how’ questions — how are we going to speed that up, how are we going to stop this from happening. Innovators ask ‘why.…
Managing your time isn't enough
One thing that’s vital to bear in mind during busy periods is that managing your time and managing your ability to do cognitively-demanding work are two very different things. It’s doesn’t matter how well you chunk up…
Design Your Day
Interested in productivity, working better and making most efficient use of the digital age? You might want to read this eBook. Design Your Day is part of Nokia’s Smarter everyday project, that talks very little about phones and quite…