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9 Wege, wie Sie Ihren Kopf frei bekommen und Platz für Kreativität schaffen. Ein neues Projekt steht vor der Tür und Sie können sich einfach nicht darauf konzentrieren?

9 Wege, wie Sie Ihren Kopf frei bekommen und Platz für Kreativität schaffen

Ein leerer Content-Plan wartet auf Sie und Sie haben keine geeigneten Ideen für Texte? Das kann viele Gründe haben – ausweglos ist es jedoch nicht. Wir zeigen Ihnen, wie Sie Ihren mentalen Fokus zurückerhalten und wieder kreativ werden. 1. Bewegung Der Nummer-1-Tipp um den Kopf frei zu bekommen lautet „moderate Bewegung“. 2. Das Schreiben mit der Hand erfordert deutlich mehr Konzentration als vollautomatisches Tippen. 29 Ways to Stay Creative. 15 Things Highly Confident People Don't Do. Highly confident people believe in their ability to achieve.

15 Things Highly Confident People Don't Do

If you don’t believe in yourself, why should anyone else put their faith in you? How To Waste Time Properly - Issue 7: Waste. Ever since Frederick Winslow Taylor timed the exact number of seconds that Bethlehem Steel workers took to push shovels into a load of iron ore and then draw them out, maximizing time efficiency has been a holy grail of the American workplace.

How To Waste Time Properly - Issue 7: Waste

But psychologists and neuroscientists are showing us the limits of this attitude: Wasting time, they say, can make you more creative. Even seemingly meaningless activities such as watching cat videos on YouTube may help you solve math problems. Mindfulness. What Emotional Intelligence Reveals About Your Personality. If you're new here, you may want to receive notices of new blog posts via email.

What Emotional Intelligence Reveals About Your Personality

Thanks for visiting - LaRae. As an FBI counterintelligence agent, the key to recruiting a foreign spy to work for the U.S. government was forming an accurate assessment of their personality. Once I understood their personality traits, I could move forward with confidence that I had everything I needed to craft a successful approach.

Forming a personality assessment allowed me to understand the foreign spy better than he understood himself. The reason is because many people do not possess the emotional intelligence to accurately interpret their own personality—let alone the personalities of others. Emotional intelligence had a powerful impact on my career as an FBI agent. Habitos. Stop Stealing Dreams (the entire manifesto on the web), cleaned up HTML version - Stop Stealing Dreams. Feel free to read and share.

Stop Stealing Dreams (the entire manifesto on the web), cleaned up HTML version - Stop Stealing Dreams

But don’t edit or charge for it. If you'd like the other editions, including a handy PDF on-screen edition, click here. [Thanks to Dale for creating this version that makes it easy to link to a specific section. Truth Facts. 6 Things Shy People Can Teach Us About Success. Chances are we’ve all experienced a bout of shyness in our lives, whether it’s when we've walked into a party full of strangers or tried to shine in a job interview.

6 Things Shy People Can Teach Us About Success

And if you identify as a shy person, you’re definitely not the only one -- approximately 40 percent of American adults feel the same way. And yes, shyness has been associated with negative outcomes -- characteristics like difficulty maintaining eye contact, feelings of humiliation and sometimes even detachment are all known to be part of a shy person's M.O. It's these traits that tend to affect some shy individuals' ability to connect, says C. Barr Taylor, a professor of psychology at Stanford University.

You the User - You and your job. You and your job In jobs, notebook, solutions on 4 October 2010 “The role of a manager should be to ensure that those that work for him/her eventually leave and go onto bigger and better things” Mark Plant.

You the User - You and your job

How to be disruptive: a retrospective primer, with meerkats. ‘Disruptive’ doesn’t mean what it used to mean.

How to be disruptive: a retrospective primer, with meerkats.

Being disruptive used to mean you’d be in trouble pretty soon: with your teachers, your parents; with other kids’ parents. Finite Attention Span. One Friday in May of 2011, I locked up my shared office, went to the pub with some colleagues and students, and said goodbye to my job as a senior lecturer in psychology.

Finite Attention Span

On the following Tuesday (it was a bank holiday weekend) I started a three-month stint as an intern at a then-mid-sized software company. Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better. If someone granted you one wish, what do you imagine you would want out of life that you haven’t gotten yet?

Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better

For many people, it would be self-improvement and knowledge. Newcounter knowledge is the backbone of society’s progress. Great thinkers such as Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and others’ quests for knowledge have led society to many of the marvels we enjoy today. Your quest for knowledge doesn’t have to be as Earth-changing as Einstein’s, but it can be an important part of your life, leading to a new job, better pay, a new hobby, or simply knowledge for knowledge’s sake — whatever is important to you as an end goal. Life-changing knowledge does typically require advanced learning techniques.

Health. People Skills & Self-Esteem to Be More Social. 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently. This list has been expanded into the new book, “Wired to Create: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind,” by Carolyn Gregoire and Scott Barry Kaufman. Creativity works in mysterious and often paradoxical ways. Corned Beef Hashtag. It starts at 6 a.m. with the alarms that wake us up. Then the television goes on for the news, because so much has probably changed in the four or five hours that, maybe, I’ve been asleep. The coffee maker gurgles and burps in the background. Thinking it all over… Productivity Strategies. Apezinho. É próprio. É coletivo. Um guia para quem quer morar sozinho. The minimalists. New to minimalism? New to our website? Welcome aboard! There’s a lot of info here, and you certainly don’t have to read it all at once, but here’s the order we suggest for beginners.

Start below, find topics that add value to your life, and take your time. There’s nothing wrong with moving slowly. Best of. April 25th, 2011. The Dark Side of Emotional Intelligence - Adam Grant - The Atlantic. Scholars’ rude awakenings. Does bitchiness serve any useful scholarly purpose? Source: Paul Bateman In the German context, a question is either an attempt to present one’s own view or an attack meant to question the authority of the speaker It seems to me”, says Clive Bloom, emeritus professor of English and American studies at Middlesex University, “that academics are the rudest people on earth.” FREE Interactive Learning OpenCourseware from MIT, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, U Houston, USC, UCLA, Khan Academy, NPTEL.

General description: Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication. The scientific study of language in any of its senses is called linguistics. The approximately 3,000–6,000 languages that are spoken by humans today are the most salient examples, but natural languages can also be based on visual rather than auditory stimuli, for example in sign languages and written language. Codes and other kinds of artificially constructed communication systems such as those used for computer programming can also be called languages.

A language in this sense is a system of signs for encoding and decoding information. The English word derives ultimately from Latin lingua, "language, tongue", via Old French. Other information: Get involved share this page also Language: English. Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule. July 2009. How to Do What You Love. January 2006.

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