52 Totally Feasible Ways To Organize Your Entire Home. The Incubation Effect: How to Break Through a Mental Block. Taking a break may help bring that Eureka moment, but what part does the unconscious play?
Mental blocks are incredibly irritating. It doesn’t matter whether you’re pondering spreadsheets at work, trying to decide what colour to paint the shed or wondering where to spend the holidays, sometimes you hit a mental block and can’t go forwards. It might be that the number of options is overwhelming or, at the other extreme, that you can’t come up with a single idea. Either way you’re stuck and in that moment there seems like no way out. The usual solution is simply to take a break.
This is a fascinating capability of the mind. I’ve come back to problems that have stumped me and been amazed to feel the answer pop into my head as if by magic. Incubation works The incubation effect is well-known and was included in an early four-stage theory of creativity, put forward in 1926 by Graham Wallas, an English psychologist: PreparationIncubationIllumination or insightVerification Is it just rest? Prepare. A Counter-Intuitive Remedy to Feeling Short of Time. Psychological research shows that, paradoxically, giving away your time can make you feel you have more of it.
Have you got enough time for everything you want to do? If this survey is correct then about half of us are ‘time-poor’, as the expression goes, or worse, are experiencing a ‘time famine’. So, what if I said there was a solution to feeling continuously short of time, and it involved giving your free-time away to others? No, you might say, quite rightly, that doesn’t make sense. If I give away my free-time to others then I will have less time for myself and so I will feel even more rushed. This is a perfectly logical response, except that it doesn’t take into account the weird way in which the mind works. For the mind, time is not always perceived in exactly the same way. “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.
No matter how much free-time we actually have, what really matters is our personal perception. Image credit: themysteryman. Hacking 101. 52 Totally Feasible Ways To Organize Your Entire Home. World Digital Library. Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus. Kids: Then and Now, an Infographic. Every generation of parents worries about how much the world has changed since they were a teen and how their kids are fairing in what are drastically different times.
Sometimes, direct comparison is a great measure of where things stand. By the numbers, more kid’s are getting ready for college, more kid’s are practicing safe sex and SAT scores are higher than they were in the 80′s. From the perspective of someone who was not a teen in either era, the pop culture experience is strange in both places. While this infographic is fun, we must also keep perspective in light of recent student protests in Montreal. A comparison done by Rob Carrick for the Globe and Mail, points out the financial difficulties that have arisen since 1984, when he was a student.
For now, let’s take a walk down memory lane, or into our parent’s memories and see how the landscape has changed since “the 80′s.”
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