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Reality Physics Engineering & the Quantum Spectrum. Solar System Scope. 7 Distraction-Fighting Strategies. A blank screen or sheet of paper glares at you, insisting you produce something now. Meanwhile, a lot of other voices are calling out, "Pay attention to me! " Suspect a lack of focus if your gaze wanders to the bookshelves over your desk, or your mind keeps drifting off to future plans, or you leap to answer the phone on its first ring, thinking, "Great! A reprieve! " How can you best access your creativity and get the words flowing? Whether or not it comes naturally to you, focus is a matter of deciding to pay attention, and then strengthening your focusing ability by using it. 1. To try: Plan a series of stories or articles that conform to a theme, or create structure by writing a piece that is based around numbers or bulleted items. 2.

To try: Choose to work in a form that's new to you, whether a poem that rhymes, an op-ed piece that must be limited to 600 words, or a short story written in present tense or with no passive verbs. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Copyright (c) 2012 by Susan K. Top 10 Ways Your Brain Is Sabotaging You (and How to Beat It) @Firesphere: Not that I don't believe you, but do you have a source for that?

@inverts: I did, it was an article on a Dutch website. I'm searching for an English source. It was testet with CAT scans etcetera, the male brain showed indeed no activity when asked to "shut your eyes and calm down, think of as less as possible" Where the female brain kept being active. *Searches on* A funny side-fact on this: "Female" gays, seem to never be able to "shutdown" where as "male" lesbians were able to completely stop thinking. Sorry, I am unable to find the article I got this information from. If I find it again, I'll let it know offcourse. @Firesphere: The article suggests from that information, that those with a "masculine" mindset (for lack of a better term) can shut their brains down; "feminine" brains always have at least one task running then?

50 Life Secrets and Tips. Memorize something everyday.Not only will this leave your brain sharp and your memory functioning, you will also have a huge library of quotes to bust out at any moment. Poetry, sayings and philosophies are your best options.Constantly try to reduce your attachment to possessions.Those who are heavy-set with material desires will have a lot of trouble when their things are taken away from them or lost. Possessions do end up owning you, not the other way around.

Become a person of minimal needs and you will be much more content.Develop an endless curiosity about this world.Become an explorer and view the world as your jungle. Stop and observe all of the little things as completely unique events. Try new things. Read “Zen and the Art of Happiness” by Chris Prentiss.This book will give you the knowledge and instruction to be happy at all times regardless of the circumstances. 50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do. The lesson you never got taught in school: How to learn! | Neurobonkers. A paper published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest evaluated ten techniques for improving learning, ranging from mnemonics to highlighting and came to some surprising conclusions. The report is quite a heavy document so I’ve summarised the techniques below based on the conclusions of the report regarding effectiveness of each technique.

Be aware that everyone thinks they have their own style of learning (they don't, according to the latest research), and the evidence suggests that just because a technique works or does not work for other people does not necessarily mean it will or won’t work well for you. If you want to know how to revise or learn most effectively you will still want to experiment on yourself a little with each technique before writing any of them off. Elaborative Interrogation (Rating = moderate) A method involving creating explanations for why stated facts are true. An example of elaborative interrogation for the above paragraph could be: Reference: 50 Tricks to Get Things Done Faster, Better, and More Easily - S. 9 Mind-Bending Epiphanies That Turned My World Upside-Down.

Over the years I’ve learned dozens of little tricks and insights for making life more fulfilling. They’ve added up to a significant improvement in the ease and quality of my day-to-day life. But the major breakthroughs have come from a handful of insights that completely rocked my world and redefined reality forever. The world now seems to be a completely different one than the one I lived in about ten years ago, when I started looking into the mechanics of quality of life. It wasn’t the world (and its people) that changed really, it was how I thought of it. Maybe you’ve had some of the same insights. Or maybe you’re about to. 1. The first time I heard somebody say that — in the opening chapter of The Power of Now — I didn’t like the sound of it one bit. I see quite clearly now that life is nothing but passing experiences, and my thoughts are just one more category of things I experience.

If you can observe your thoughts just like you can observe other objects, who’s doing the observing? Why are We Afraid of the Dark? The dark has always frightened mankind, but understanding this fear requires serious analysis of our evolutionary past. One of the primary explanations for our fear of the dark is the fear of being eaten by predators. Considering 60% of lion attacks in Tanzania between 1988 and 2009 were in a 4 hour window from 6-9:45 pm, it is no wonder this has been coded in our DNA. After generations, those who were scared of the dark survived the lion attacks in many situations. Children who are aged 4 – 6 years old have the most fear of the dark and this only tapers off by age 9. As the DNA encoded with the children starts to have environmental feedback that there are no lions in modern darkness, the fear recedes. Still, up to 5% of adults remain fearful of the dark, which can have drastic consequences for their ability to sleep.

SEE ALSO: 10 Common Sleep Mistakes to Avoid. 14 websites to make you a more intelligent person. Interesting and Unusual Words. Card Trick for a Free Drink | Dinner Table Magic Tricks. HackQuest :: Learn about Hacking, Cracking, JavaScript, PHP, Cryptology and Password security. How To Become A Hacker (German Translation) Direkt zur deutschen Übersetzung. Numerous translations of this document are available: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Danish, Dutch, Estonia, Farsi, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Swedish.

Note that since this document changes occasionally, they may be out of date to varying degrees. Anmerkungen zur Deutschen Übersetzung Diese Seite enthält die deutsche Übersetzung von Eric Steven Raymonds How To Become A Hacker Copyright © 2001 Eric S. Raymond. Die ursprüngliche Übersetzung stammt von Christopher Özbek. Alle Aktualisierungen und die Übersetzungen der neu hinzugekommenen Teile stammen von Sven Bergner. Fehlerkorrekturen, bessere Formulierungen oder Übersetzungen bitte per Mail mitteilen. Vor dem Einsenden sollte aber das Korrektur-Howto gelesen werden. Felix Linsenmeier Frank Cotting Peter Hüwe Mario (mariooriginal) Patrick-Oliver Scheinert Andreas K. 1. 2. 3. 4.

OPTICAL ILLUSIONS and MOVIE POSTERS by Rowan Stocks Moore. Rowan Stocks Moore ( England ) is the creator of these nice Disney posters. The movie posters were made with a ‘smart eye‘ which allows for the optical illusions to pop out. It’s not so easy to see them all, ’cause some of the optical illusions are ‘hidden’. Take a look ! Learn how to make your own optical illusion Dont miss ! Mighty Optical Illusions. Emotions_and_facial_expression_by_cedarseed-ds1wwv.jpg (3650×3033)

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