Productivity porn It’s like a finger pointing at the moon. Do not concentrate on the finger or you will miss all of the heavenly glory!— Bruce Lee. The internet is full of productivity tips and techniques, more accurately known as productivity porn. And I plead guilty. I’ve learned a few things the hard way that are not often mentioned. If you really deeply care about something, you will do it. So what do you need a system for? Do not confuse activity for progress. Persistence Unlimited – Goal Setting and Productivity for People Who Like Technology
How You Speak Is Just As Important As What You Say So much about our relationships is dependent on communication. And more and more research is showing that how we say something can be just as important as what we say. Two people can recite the same set of words, but their volume, tone, pitch, and pace of speaking can completely alter the message that is being conveyed. Take for example the words, “I love you.” A recent study by psychology researcher Jose Benki at the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR) used recordings of over 1,380 introductory phone calls to see what variables in people’s speech correlated with their success in convincing people to participate in a survey. Interviewers who spoke moderately fast, at a rate of about 3.5 words per second, were much more successful than those who talked too fast or too slow. Of course, there are a lot of variables that also affect our speech. The researchers also didn’t seem to look into differences in volume. Tips for improving how you speak: Related Posts
Miriam Badyrka is The Doodler: leaf & pod doodles I didn't post anything last week, and I am unrepentant. Company on Friday, daughter leaving Sunday morning. Sometimes life gets in the way of blogging, and that is all there is to it. If I had posted a doodle last week, it would have been this one. What happened to that bottom circle? The doodle makes me think of flowers in water. The bowl is an old one, made before machines, and the edge is uneven. Here is today's doodle. I like the ribbons as a connecting element. Looking at this photo, I think I may be on to something with the rhythmic gymnastics. If you want to see some of the amazing things these gymnasts do, you can watch this video (I totally kyped this lovely photo from google images, and I don't know who to credit for it)
Transformação do homem: finja ser quem você deseja ser | mude.nu Todos nós assumimos um ou vários personagens para nossas relações sociais. As características desses personagens são criadas ao longo do tempo, com base nas experiências que temos, que por sua vez são frutos de nossas trocas com o ambiente e com as outras pessoas. Quase sempre ficamos presos a essas características como se elas fossem coisas realmente nossas . Dizemos que fulano é tímido, que sicrano é enfezado ou que beltrano é triste. A verdade, entretanto, é que essas não são características intrinsecamente suas. Quando ficamos demasiadamente presos ao personagem, acabamos traçando alguns objetivos para “mudar de vida”. Uma saída engenhosa para essa situação é você fingir ser quem deseja ser. Digamos que você é um rato de escritório e quer mudar a sua vida e ser um surfista despreocupado com a vida. Interprete o personagem do surfista. Primeiro, veja o que os surfistas fazem. Isso vale para tudo.
Practice your personal Kaizen A fine article. But as a resident of Japan who's spent over half his life speaking Japanese, let me take this chance to address one common myth. "Kaizen" in Japanese does NOT mean "continual improvement", or have any mystical managerial significance. It's a mundane, generic word meaning "improvement" - any improvement, continual or not. If you step up to something, make a quick, one-shot improvement, and walk away forever saying "All done! (An aside: Leading Japanese companies like Toyota make continual improvement a core practice. Toyota and some of its contemporaries have indeed developed advanced, powerful methods for continuous operational improvement, within the context of their industries. Of course, if modern management gurus in the US (or wherever) want to latch on to the word "kaizen" as the new name for "continuous improvement", they're welcome to do so; words gain new meanings all the time.
M'enfin ?!? Wiki - Postliterate society A postliterate society is different from a pre-literate one, as the latter has not yet created writing and communicates orally (oral literature and oral history, aided by art, dance, and singing), and the former has replaced the written word with recorded sounds (CDs, audiobooks), broadcast spoken word and music (radio), pictures (JPEG) and moving images (television, film, MPG, streaming video, video games, virtual reality). A postliterate society might still include people who are aliterate, who know how to read and write but choose not to. Most if not all people would be media literate, multimedia literate, visually literate, and transliterate. In his recent nonfiction book, The Empire of Illusion, Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the recent, sudden rise of postliterate culture within the world culture as a whole. Author Bruce Powe, in his 1987 book The Solitary Outlaw, had this to say about a post-literate society: Literacy: the ability to read and interpret the written word.