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Can You Alter Your Memory? Easy memory techniques. The House Tour Method of memorisation is something that I learned about several years ago, and is a small part of what Derren Brown calls the Loci System. As I mentioned in the orange box above, you really do need to have got to grips with the Linking - or Chain - system, and its visualisation techniques. As the name of the system describes, you will need to know the layout of your own home. Imagine yourself standing outside your front door, key in hand. Now, connect the first item on your 'Things to remember' list to the front door. You are about to take a tour of your home. When you want to recall the list, imagine standing at your front door, and allow your mind to remember the association you made. Too Many Old Memories Can Make It Hard To Make New Memories: Scientific American Podcast.

April 6, 2007 -- Too Many Old Memories Can It Hard To Make New Memories I often picture my brain as a dysfunctional office where the neurosecretaries are not exactly shining beacons of efficiency. There’s papers strewn all over the place, files heaped in teetering stacks, and no one ever sorts through the stuff…there’s so much useless information I can never find what I’m looking for. Turns out that picture might not be so farfetched. Researchers at Columbia University have found that having too many memories cluttering your brain can actually make it harder to remember new things…like where you left your car keys. It’s been known for awhile that, in mice, storing memories long-term involves making new neurons: destroy an animal’s ability to sprout new brain cells and you mess with its recollections from the past.

So the key to remembering may be: forgetting. Pocket : Time use research. The Art of Stretching Time. Your rating: None Average: 4 (1 vote) The ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. While chronos refers to the time of physics or linear-sequential time (such as that of the clock "alarming" you out of bed in the morning), kairos refers to a moment or period of undetermined time in which something meaningful happens (of course only you can determine what is meaningful to you!). Let's just say that chronos is 'physical' or 'clock' time, and kairos is 'metaphysical time' that transcends the limitations of time and space as we know it. So before you begin wondering how this has anything to do with you, your life, or your business, let me say that as a super busy soul-preneur, I have learned to tune into kairos time as a potent way of leveraging the same 24 hour day we all have, to create more breathing space for my spirit and soul.

The bottom line is that I get more done in less time while still enjoying an extra dose of graceful flow in my day. 1. 2. 3. 4. Author's Bio: 0:00 Dynamosaics: Video Mosaics with Non-Chronological Time. The manipulations of time in video editing, which enable to control the chronological time of events, are explored. These time manipulations include slowing down (or postponing) some activities while speeding up (or advancing) other activities. When a video camera scans a scene, aligning all the activities to a single time interval will result in a panoramic movie. Time manipulations are obtained by first constructing an aligned space-time volume from the input video, and then sweeping a continuous 2D slice (time front) through that volume, generating a new sequence of images. For dynamic scenes, aligning the input video frames poses an important challenge. 10 Useful Google Chrome Extensions to Help You Stay Focus And Be More Efficent.

It seems like there is a never ending fight to manage time. I am sure everyone chasing the golden calendar at the end of the rainbow has read an article or two stating how to manage time. In reality, you budget your availability and focus to work more efficiently. You can’t manipulate time. Some people mono-task, others use tools and gadgets to help make the most of their time. I am in the latter group. Below are a few Google Chrome extensions I use to help me work a little more efficiently. 1. The way FastestChrome works is, when you are reading something on the web, you can highlight a portion of text. When I found this extension, I wasn’t sure if I would use it much. 2. This extension is a great way to see how long you have been unfocused and chatting with people on Twitter or any site. 3.

This extension tell you how much time you spend on every website. Time Report can give you better insight when trying to find out where your time vampires are. 4. 5. A few of the key features are: 6. Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research. 0:02 About time banking | Timebank by e. Time banking is not barter. Barter economies have been in practice throughout history, but the idea of using time as a unit of exchange only appeared shortly after the Industrial Revolution. The origins of time-based currency can be traced both to the American anarchist Josiah Warren, who ran the Cincinnati Time Store from 1827 until 1830, and to the British industrialist and philanthropist Robert Owen, who founded the utopian "New Harmony" community. While both systems are based on the principles of mutualism and the labor theory of value, Josiah Warren's currency was explicitly pegged to time as a measure of specific goods or labor.

For example, 3 hours of carpenter's work would be considered equivalent to 3-12 pounds of corn. Meanwhile, Robert Owen's currency simply bore an inscription referring to a number of hours, which presumably could be exchanged for however many pounds of corn a farmer would deem adequate or labor of any kind. 0:01 Why You Must Respect Your Energy Like a Bank Account. Most people struggle to get out of bed each morning and rely on stimulants to get them through the day. Despite this, they pack each day full of activity and force themselves to do things that they don’t have the energy for.

It seems that nearly everyone is guilty of this to some extent which is why it’s so important to realize how much this can affect your health and wellbeing. Americans are getting an average of less than 7 hours of sleep each night and are busier and more stressed than ever. The physiological burden of dealing with an unprecedented number of activities and responsibilities each day and the excessive amount of stress that they create increases our need for sleep each night, but despite this increased need, many of us are compounding the problem by sleeping less. A Tired Nation Headed for Trouble We’ve spent millions of years sleeping in accordance with a natural circadian rhythm based on the rising and setting of the sun.

Living Within Your Energy Budget. Time management : yet another todo-list alternative | Any Ideas - Pour les chefs de projet malins. I explained the limitations of the todo-list system in the previous article about time management introduction and todo-list limitations . You are not about to discover a brand new way of managing your time but maybe another way of dealing with all your tasks. Using your calendar as your todo-list The calendar is usually used by people to write appointments with other people like meetings, business lunches, workshops and so on. A common representation of the calendar is based on columns, one for each day of the week : There are many softwares which provide a calendar tool : Microsoft Outlook, KOrganizer, Evolution, Google Agenda, … As long as they are easy to use for you, with drag’n'drop to move tasks, it’s ok. Making an appointment with yourself Making appointments with colleagues, customers is quite normal but what if you make an appointment with yourself to work on a particular task ?

Fine ! From todo-list to calendar : how to free your time Done ! Day-to-day usage of the calendar. Two Lists You Should Look at Every Morning.