Empower Your Willpower This is a post from staff writer Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. He contributes one new article to Get Rich Slowly every two weeks. One of my fundamental beliefs about money is that it mostly comes down to self-control: Making yourself do the right things and preventing yourself from doing the wrong things. Robert Brokamp: Can I change my willpower or am I just born with the willpower that I have? Brokamp: Explain the concept “ego depletion” and how when you exercise willpower, you tire it out.Baumeister: Yes, exactly like a muscle, that as you exercise it, it will get tired. Brokamp: During the course of the day, we are subjected to many temptations. Another important point is to understand how mind and body work together. Brokamp: What kind of exercise will increase your willpower? So to practice it, try working on habits, and my advice is to start with an easy one.
5 Things That Really Smart People Do Most people don't really think much about how they learn. Generally you assume learning comes naturally. You listen to someone speak either in conversation or in a lecture and you simply absorb what they are saying, right? Not really. But the need for learning never ends, so your desire to do so should always outweigh your desire to be right. 1. You know the one I am talking about. 2. If you can't quiet the inner voice, then at least use it to your advantage. 3. Some people are naturally curious and others are not. 4. No concept or theory comes out of thin air. 5. Often people shut out learning due to the person delivering the material.
Η νέα γεωγραφία της τεχνολογίας | Απόψεις Πριν από λίγες μέρες ήρθε ένα συνεργείο να γυρίσει βίντεο στο γραφείο μας του Openfund. Ενας εικονολήπτης είδε ένα μικρό πλαστικό αντικείμενο που είχαμε «τυπώσει» σε έναν τρισδιάστατο εκτυπωτή στο ισόγειο του κτιρίου The Cube, όπου βρισκόμαστε. Μου είπε ότι κι αυτός χρησιμοποιεί τρισδιάστατο εκτυπωτή, γιατί προσπαθεί να λύσει ένα πρόβλημα της δουλειάς του. Σχεδιάζει μία ράγα που θα επιτρέπει στην κάμερα να ακολουθεί το αντικείμενό της καλύτερα από ό,τι μπορούν τα σημερινά συστήματα. Εχει ανάγκη από ένα εξάρτημα δικής του έμπνευσης, με ειδική γεωμετρία. Χρησιμοποίησε λοιπόν το σχετικό λογισμικό, και έχει παραγγείλει δείγματα από ένα εκτυπωτικό εργαστήριο. Στην Κομοτηνή ένας εφευρέτης σχεδιάζει ειδικούς αισθητήρες που θα ενσωματώνονται σε αθλητικά ρούχα, για να συλλέγουν πληροφορίες για τη μυϊκή δραστηριότητα. Ο τομέας της ρομποτικής, γράφει ο Economist σε πρόσφατο αφιέρωμα, ύστερα από πολλά χρόνια σχετικά αργής εξέλιξης, βρίσκεται σε φάση απογείωσης. * Ο κ.
Are You Living Your Eulogy or Your Résumé? | Arianna Huffington "Today I want every American to see how these men and women lived," President Obama said Sunday, eulogizing the 12 men and women killed in the Washington Navy Yard shooting. He spoke of volunteers who made time to give back to their communities, like "Frank Kohler, giving dictionaries to every third-grader in his county," and "Marty Bodrog, leading the children's Bible study at church." There were fathers like Mike Ridgell, "coaching his daughters' softball teams and joining Facebook just to keep up with his girls, one of whom said he was always the cool dad." There were mothers like Mary Francis Knight, "devoted to her daughters ... who had just recently watched with joy as her older daughter got married," and grandparents like John Johnson, "always smiling, giving bear hugs to his 10 grandchildren ... who would have welcomed his 11th grandchild this fall." For most of us, our eulogy will be not just the first formal marking down of what our lives were about but the only one. Or:
The Pomodoro Technique® What is The Pomodoro Technique? EASY for anyone to use! Improves productivity IMMEDIATELY! FUN to do! Why Pomodoro? The Pomodoro Technique isn’t like any other time-management method on the market today. For many people, time is an enemy. Essential to the Pomodoro Technique is the notion that taking short, scheduled breaks while working eliminates the “running on fumes” feeling you get when you’ve pushed yourself too hard. Whether it’s a call, a Facebook message, or suddenly realizing you need to change the oil in your car, many distracting thoughts and events come up when you’re at work. Most of us are intimately acquainted with the guilt that comes from procrastinating. Who does the technique work for? These are all ways real folks use the Pomodoro Technique: Motivate yourself to write.Limit distractions.Keep track of how long you’re spending brainstorming / writing / revising.Reduce back and neck pain by walking around during Pomodoro breaks.Draft a book in three weeks. How It works
7 Simple Ways to Boost Your Productivity We're always complaining about how little time we have and how overwhelmed we are. We whine about all the interruptions and communication overload. We spend all sorts of time reading books and searching for ways to improve our time management and personal productivity. Well, get this. You know what you need to do: Work. Here are seven ideas to help you get started: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Here's the thing. The long term benefits that come from working, playing, thinking, feeling, exercising, eating right, and sleeping, now take a backseat to the instant gratification of distraction, addiction, self-importance, attention seeking, and minutiae. To fit all that in, our lives have become overloaded and overwhelming.
Frictionless Formative Assessment with Social Media In a seminal experience sampling study (EMS), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi gave beepers to teenagers with instructions to write down what they were feeling and thinking whenever the devices went off. This simple technique, randomly checking in with students throughout the day, led to an epiphany about performance psychology, something Csikszentmihalyi defined as flow. Also a discovery about assessment was derived: Quick check-ins over time can reveal an extraordinary amount about an individual or collection of individuals. Experience sampling using technology, so revolutionary in the early 1990s, is pedestrian now. Formative Assessment in the Age of the Common Core According to The Marzano Center, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) make it imperative for all instructors in all content areas to make use of formative assessment: Formative assessment [. . .] is used by teachers to adjust instructional practice. A history teacher posts The Gettysburg Address to Google Plus. Twitter
Why we screw up when the heat is on - life - 11 July 2011 Read full article Continue reading page |1|2 Psychologist Sian Beilock has investigated what happens in the brain when our performance crumbles under pressure. She talked to Tiffany O'Callaghan about what it takes to stay on form under stress, and why being smarter can be more hindrance than help What made you want to research what you've called "the science of why people screw up"? This phenomenon is known as "choking": what does this mean exactly? What is going on when we are under pressure? You say people with more cognitive horsepower may be more likely to fail. We had people do mathematics problems that could be solved by working through a complicated algorithm, or by using a shortcut. Those with more cognitive horsepower are also folks who tend to over-think and analyse. How can you avoid worry? A mathematical problem presented horizontally - "32 - 17 = ??" How did you find out that paying less attention can improve performance? New Scientist Not just a website! More From New Scientist
Une bible pour Apprendre le cinema et Comment faire un film de A à Z Cet article est fait pour tous ceux qui veulent commencer ou s’améliorer sur l ‘écriture d’un film ou sa réalisation et tout savoir sur comment faire un film. Premièrement, je tiens à vous féliciter car l’aventure dans laquelle vous vous apprêtez à vous lancer est une des plus belles qui soit. Vous allez douter, être excité, bref passer d’une émotion à une autre au fil de votre progression, de votre imagination. Vous le savez déjà, ou du moins vous vous en doutez : l’écriture ou la réalisation n’a pas pour but de rester dans un placard. Votre scénario a pour but d’être lu et votre film d’être vu. Donc n’oublier pas qu’à un moment vous serez confronté à un producteur, un réalisateur (si votre but est de devenir scénariste), ou des lecteurs de commissions de films régionaux, nationaux ou internationaux. Une fois que vous avez intégré cela, vous vous apprêtez à prendre une décision importante pour votre vie : faire un film, un scénario. Avant de commencer, je voudrais juste me présenter.
Free Resources and Tools for Replicating Project-Based Learning Educators from High Tech High in San Diego, California, and the Whitfield Career Academy's 21st Century Learning Academy in Dalton, Georgia, have provided these resources for you to use in your own school. Students in Whitfield County take on a range of multidisciplinary projects. A middle school science student (left) identifies the parts of a fish before painting it to make a Japanese-style gyotaku print, and students (right) learn math and physics while building an outdoor classroom. Credit: Grace Rubenstein (left); David Markus (right) Click on any title link below to view or download that file. Tips for downloading: PDF files can be viewed on a wide variety of platforms -- both as a browser plug-in or a stand-alone application -- with Adobe's free Acrobat Reader program. To download a free version of the Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer, visit Microsoft's Download Center. Resources On This Page: Back to Top
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