neuroscience

What does it mean to be creative? Members Public

Compelling exploration of how creative minds function [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2014/12/24/the-messy-minds-of-creative-people/] : > 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

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creativity

LeWeb: Adam Gazzaley will fix your brain with neurogames Members Public

[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/12/adam-gazzaley.jpg] 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

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games

Meaning - Joel and Michelle Levey: you can rewrite your brain Members Public

[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/11/Joel-Michelle-Levey.jpg] Joel and Michelle Levey [http://www.wisdomatwork.com] 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

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brains

You need a holiday, says neuroscience Members Public

[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/08/exhausted-pop.jpg] 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

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creativity

Stop working so damn hard Members Public

You shouldn’t put in so many hours working [http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2014/01/27/140127ta_talk_surowiecki]. 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,

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corporate culture

What question does an innovator ask? Members Public

“Why?” [http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2013/12/the-five-skills-of-disruptive-innovators/] : > 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.’ They are

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disruption

Managing your time isn't enough Members Public

[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/09/postits-service-design.jpg] One thing that’s vital to bear in mind during busy periods [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2013/09/andback.html] is that managing your time and managing your ability to do cognitively-demanding work are two very

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consultancy

Design Your Day Members Public

[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/05/reading-design-your-day.jpg] Interested in productivity, working better and making most efficient use of the digital age? You might want to read this eBook [http://www.slideshare.net/NokiaAtWork/smarter-everyday-ebookdesignyourday]. Design Your Day is part of Nokia’s Smarter everyday

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Brilliant Noise