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? For many people, it would be self-improvement and knowledge. Newcounter knowledge is the backbone of society’s progress. Life-changing knowledge does typically require advanced learning techniques. Health Shake a leg. Balance Sleep on it. Perspective and Focus Change your focus, part 2. Recall Techniques Listen to music. Visual Aids Every picture tells a story. Verbal and Auditory Techniques Stimulate ideas. Kinesthetic Techniques Write, don’t type. Self-Motivation Techniques Give yourself credit. Supplemental Techniques Read as much as you can. For Teachers, Tutors, and Parents Be engaging. For Students and Self-Studiers Be engaged. Parting Advice Persist. Sources For This Article This is only a partial list of sources, focusing only on Web sites. Did you enjoy this article?
The Surprising History of the To-Do List and How to Design One That Actually Works The list is the origin of culture. Wherever you look in cultural history, you will find lists. – Umberto Eco When I was a kid, I read a book called The Listmaker. Now, although I don’t remember the book that well, I do see much more significance in the humble list—especially after researching where they come from and why we make lists. As I researched this post I realised how hard it is to pinpoint the origin of something as simple and widespread as the list (to-do or otherwise), but I did find out some interesting stories about how lists have been used in the past and why we find them useful in everyday life. Why do we make lists as humans in the first place? Philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco is a big fan of lists and has some fascinating ideas about why they’re so important to humans: The list is the origin of culture. Umberto explained in an interview that lists are often seen as relics of primitive cultures—simplistic devices that don’t belong in our modern day and age. 1. 2. 3. 4.
How to Establish New Habits the No-Sweat Way “The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.” - Samuel Johnson Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Mary Jaksch of Goodlife Zen. Have you ever had problems establishing a new habit? Maybe I should ask, have you ever not had problems establishing a new habit? In her book “This year I will…”, Andy Ryan, an expert in collaborative thinking, spells out why change is difficult: Whenever we initiate change, even a positive one, we activate fear in our emotional brain….If the fear is big enough, the fight-or-flight response will go off and we’ll run from what we’re trying to do. That’s exactly how it is for me. Let’s take a look at how we can affect change without giving ourselves a fright. In a New York Times article based upon the research by Andy Ryan it says: Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits. Big changes mean that momentum is lost.
Science/Nature | Wormhole 'no use' for time travel For budding time travellers, the future (or should that be the past?) is starting to look bleak. Hypothetical tunnels called wormholes once looked like the best bet for constructing a real time machine. These cosmic shortcuts, which link one point in the Universe to another, are favoured by science fiction writers as a means both of explaining time travel and of circumventing the limitations imposed by the speed of light. The concept of wormholes will be familiar to anyone who has watched the TV programmes Farscape, Stargate SG1 and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The opening sequence of the BBC's new Doctor Who series shows the Tardis hurtling through a "vortex" that suspiciously resembles a wormhole - although the Doctor's preferred method of travel is not explained in detail. But the idea of building these so-called traversable wormholes is looking increasingly shaky, according to two new scientific analyses. Remote connection Law breaker "We aren't saying you can't build a wormhole.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Having an Incredibly Efficient Day A couple of weeks ago, we shared 7 Highly Productive Habits of Famous People, many of which centered around different activities during certain parts of the day. Taking those valuable pieces of advice into account, we’ve compiled a step-by-step guide on how to have a more efficient day. There are many small changes you can integrate into each 24-hours that will help you become more productive, balanced, healthy and prepared to take on the challenges you face during the morning, afternoon, or evening. For this advice to be truly effective, it’s essential to get between seven and eight hours of sleep each night. Before leaving for work: Hold off on the coffee: It may be easier said than done, but you should wait at least 45 minutes after you wake up before you have your first cup of coffee. On your commute: At your desk: Midday: Lunch break– a must: Avoid chowing down at your desk– fork in one hand, the other trying to type– at all costs. 4:00pm: Before leaving work: Before bed:
Engineer Life: Set Up Habit Changes So It’s Hard to Fail Post written by Leo Babauta. In his excellent ebook about changing habits, blogging friend Scott Young described the process of forming habits as walking home through fresh snow. The first person to go through the snow has to forge a path through the snow, and it’s difficult … but others will follow in that path and it gets easier and easier. Forming a habit is a matter of forging that initial path until it’s harder not to take the path. Who wants to forge a new path through the snow? But let’s take that concept a little further: what if you engineered it so that even the initial person forging through the snow would rather take that path than another, because it would be harder not to take the path. Engineer your habit change so that it’s harder not to form the habit. Why habit changes fail I think I can safely say that all of us have attempted and failed at creating a new habit or changing an old habit at a few points in our lives. 1. Instead, find ways to have instant positive feedback.
Quantum mechanics Description of physical properties at the atomic and subatomic scale Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that describes the behavior of nature at and below the scale of atoms.[2]: 1.1 It is the foundation of all quantum physics including quantum chemistry, quantum field theory, quantum technology, and quantum information science. Classical physics, the collection of theories that existed before the advent of quantum mechanics, describes many aspects of nature at an ordinary (macroscopic) scale, but is not sufficient for describing them at small (atomic and subatomic) scales. Most theories in classical physics can be derived from quantum mechanics as an approximation valid at large (macroscopic) scale.[3] Overview and fundamental concepts Quantum mechanics allows the calculation of properties and behaviour of physical systems. A fundamental feature of the theory is that it usually cannot predict with certainty what will happen, but only give probabilities. . and , where Here
Four Steps For Salvaging A Wasted Day | Fast Company Maybe it’s a fire drill, or a plumbing disaster, or a customer service rabbit hole of hold music. In any case, something has seriously distracted you from what you really needed to accomplish today. It’s thrown you off, and you got nothing done. Now it’s 5 p.m., you’re way behind, and you’re already beginning to panic about the horrorscape that tomorrow’s shaping up to be. Now what? First, step away from your computer. 1. As time management expert Allyson Lewis tells Fast Company, it’s essential to find a quiet spot, away from the place where your workday went down in flames. “Then,” Lewis counsels, “set it to seven minutes.” “People don’t have time to create this master plan,” she explains. Before you can do anything else, Lewis says, you need to abandon all hope of a grand strategy for getting back on track. 2. In those seven minutes, lay out up to five things you can accomplish the following day—within 2 seconds to 20 minutes each. 3. . . . 4. But over time, it can become less hard.
Autopilot Achievement: How to Turn Your Goals Into Habits “First we make our habits, then our habits make us.” - Charles C. Noble It’s such a simple concept, yet it’s something we don’t always do. It’s not exceedingly difficult to do, and yet I think it’s something that would make a world of difference in anyone’s life. Break your goals into habits, and focus on putting those habits into autopilot. Last week when I wrote my Ultimate Guide to Motivation, there were a number of questions about my belief that having One Goal to focus on is much more powerful than having many goals. These are excellent questions, and my answer takes a little explaining: I try to turn my goals into habits, and in doing so, I put my goals on autopilot. But once you put it on autopilot, once a habit is firmly established, you don’t really have to focus on it much. My Marathon Example Let’s look at my marathon goal as an example. But in order to achieve that goal, I broke it down into two habits: The daily running habit took about a month to form. Other Applications
- Jerusalem Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel (Enlarge) Jerusalem, by virtue of the number and diversity of people who have held it sacred, may be considered the most holy city in the world. To the Jewish people it is Ir Ha-Kodesh (the Holy City), the Biblical Zion, the City of David, the site of Solomon's Temple, and the eternal capital of the Israelite nation. To Christians it is where the young Jesus impressed the sages at the Jewish Temple, where he spent the last days of his ministry, and where the Last Supper, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection took place. Also greatly venerated by the Muslims, it is where the prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven. While highly charged with intense religious devotion and visited by countless pilgrims and sages, Jerusalem has also been ravaged by thirty centuries of warfare and strife. The earliest traces of human settlement in the Jerusalem area are from the late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (3000 BC). Mt. Site of Herod’s temple in Jerusalem
Blog – The Time Diet: Digestible Time Management My New Year’s resolution was to eat better. (I know. I pride myself on my originality.) I suppose I’m fortunate in that my problem wasn’t a love of super sized McDonald’s meals or an addiction to Krispy Kreme donuts. Now, before I go any further, I need to emphasize strongly that this is not a blog telling you how to lose weight. Now, where was I… My problem with eating was the same that many people face- I didn’t carve out any time to think about it. My Problem When I caught myself running out the door one morning with a rolled up tortilla for breakfast and 5 frozen chicken nuggets in a baggie for lunch I had to stop myself. I realized at that moment that my bad eating habits didn’t have anything to do with “not eating enough fruits and veggies” and everything to do with “not making time to PLAN my fruits and veggies.” After researching a few different healthy eating plans, I settled on Whole30. I like that there were rules. Healthy Eating Takes Planning 1.Use cookbooks and recipe cards
How to Change Your Life (dirtSimple.org) Can people really change? We tend to assume that circumstances change easily and often, but that people change rarely, slowly, and with great difficulty. But these assumptions are wrong. The truth is that people can change easily and instantly. The real problem is that they also change back just as easily! Having Trouble Getting Started On Your Goals? In this short video, I explain -- and demonstrate! Meanwhile, the circumstances of our lives change slowly in comparison. Hogwash! So if you want to change your life, you need to do three things: Focus on changing your actions, not your circumstances Accept and plan for your weaknesses, instead of toughing it out Periodically review your results to fine-tune or re-think your approach if needed I could probably write a book on each of these three things, especially the second one. Change Your Actions, Not Your Circumstances Focusing on results is a losing game in two ways. Second, focusing on results makes you want to take rash shortcuts.