The Civil Wars- I Had Me a Girl (Audio + Lyrics) Free Guided Meditations | UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. What Happens to the Brain When You Meditate (And How it Benefits You) Online stopwatch. Saleh. How to Become a Star Grad Student: James McLurkin and the Power of Stretch Churn. March 15th, 2010 · 61 comments The Famous Dr. McLurkin In 2008, when James McLurkin graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from MIT, he was unquestionably a star. Four years earlier, Time Magazine profiled James and his research on swarm robotics as part of their Innovators series.
The next year, he was featured on an episode of Nova ScienceNOW. The producer of the show, WGBH in Boston, built an interactive web site dedicated to James, where, among other activities, you can watch a photo slide show of his life and find out what he carries in his backpack. Earlier this year, TheGrio, a popular African American-focused news portal, named James one of their 100 History Makers in the Making — a list that also includes Oprah Winfrey and Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker.
Perhaps most telling, even my brother, who finished his systems engineering degree in 2002, knew of James. In other words, James is famous in his field. The answers, as you’ll soon encounter, are not what you might first expect… The Four Habits that Form Habits. By Leo Babauta My daughter wants to work out more, but she has a hard time forming the habit (many of you might be familiar with this problem).
From having to get dressed to go to the gym, to actually going to the gym, to the thought of a hard workout … our minds tend to put off the habit. The solution is exceedingly simple: just do 3 pushups. Or tell yourself you have to walk/jog for just one minute. Make it so easy you can’t say no. Of course, most people will think that’s too easy, and tell themselves they have to do more than that. Leo’s advice is for other people! Learn the fundamentals of habits before you try to do the advanced skills. Today we’re going to go over the fundamentals of habit — four key habits to form habits.
Habit 1: Start Exceedingly Small Another common habit that too few people actually do is flossing daily. Of course, that seems so ridiculous most people laugh. That’s the point. One glass of water a day. Habit 2: Be Mindful of Negative Thoughts Watch the thoughts. How to Write Six Important Papers a Year without Breaking a Sweat: The Deep Immersion Approach to Deep Work. March 24th, 2013 · 50 comments The Productive Professor I’m fascinated by people who produce a large volume of valuable output. Motivated by this interest, I recently setup a conversation with a hot shot young professor who rose quickly in his field.
I asked him about his work habits. Though his answer was detailed — he had obviously put great thought into these issues — there was one strategy that caught my attention: he confines his deep work to long, uninterrupted bursts. On small time scales, this means each day is either completely dedicated to a single deep work task, or is left open to deal with all the e-mail and meetings and revisions that also define academic life. If he’s going to write a paper, for example, he puts aside two days, and does nothing else, emerging from his immersion with a completed first draft. If he’s going to instead deal with requests and logistics, he’ll spend the whole day doing so. On longer time scales, his schedule echoes this immersion strategy. Best, Worst Learning Tips: Flash Cards Are Good, Highlighting Is Bad.
In a world as fast-changing and full of information as our own, every one of us — from schoolchildren to college students to working adults — needs to know how to learn well. Yet evidence suggests that most of us don’t use the learning techniques that science has proved most effective. Worse, research finds that learning strategies we do commonly employ, like rereading and highlighting, are among the least effective. (MORE: How to Use Technology to Make You Smarter) The scientific literature evaluating these techniques stretches back decades and across thousands of articles. It’s far too extensive and complex for the average parent, teacher or employer to sift through.
Fortunately, a team of five leading psychologists have now done the job for us. The WorstHighlighting and underlining led the authors’ list of ineffective learning strategies. (MORE: ‘Implicit Learning’: How to Remember More Without Trying) Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials): Robert B. Cialdini: 9780061241895: Amazon.com. Free Resources. How to Level Up in the Game of Life. Ding! This may be the sweetest sound you can possibly hear when playing a role-playing game (henceforth referred to as an RPG). “DING!” Or something similar depending on the video game you’re playing, means that your character completed a certain number of quests, killed a specific number of monsters, and ran enough errands to level up.
Congratulations, or “grats!” Are usually in order for this occasion. It’s this particular reason that games like World of Warcraft, Rift, Oblivion, Everquest 2, and any other RPG are so damn addictive: there’s always another level to reach, another dragon to kill, and better armor to acquire. Today, we’re going to turn life into a giant role playing game.
Since day one, the tagline for Nerd Fitness has been “Level up your life.” Today, you’re going to learn how. Don’t complain about your starting zone In the game of life: we’re all dealt a “random character.” That’s life. It might not be fair, but it is what it is. We don’t accept excuses, only solutions. 5 Ways to Instantly Become More Productive. Believe it or not, productivity can be learned, grasshopper. Yeah, I didn’t believe it either..until I transformed myself into a productivity ninja. Today, I’m going to teach you to maximize your time at your computer, dominate your email in-box, and spend less time on unimportant tasks to focus on what really matters. Once you have freed up your time, you’ll be surprised how you’re able to hang out with friends and family, pick up new skills, spend more time exercising, or cook healthy meals.
Like Neo learning Kung Fu, today I shall teach you the skill of productivity. My story I am the world’s best procrastinator. For the past three years: I used to think I was justified in my horribly unproductive, time-consuming behavior because I was running a business. I finally came to the harsh realization that I was lying to myself. So I dumped ALL of my effort into building the habit of productivity. Just two months later, my life is drastically different: I actually feel in control of my life now.
How to Hack Your Education, Learn Faster, And Skip College. This is a guest post by author of Hacking Your Education, founder of UnCollege, and entrepreneur Dale Stephens. What’s happened to your self-improvement list since the start of a new year has come and gone? Maybe your bullet points include joining a local gym, swearing off simple carbs, and purchasing a copy of Anna Karenina. Whatever it might be, your list probably also includes learning something new, like speaking Spanish, coding websites, or deciphering American politics. But how many of us resolve to learn how to learn? Reliving the agony of sitting through long lectures and slogging through dense textbooks seems masochistic and perhaps futile, because really, how many of us remember trigonometric functions or the Magna Carta?
What most people don’t realize is that learning itself is a dynamic process that we can improve and whip into shape, just like our physical fitness. The brain works in a very simple way. Creating Connections in Your Brain Synthesizing Information. How to Tackle Your Clutter. Post written by Leo Babauta. So you’ve been putting off tackling your clutter for months, maybe even years. Papers pile up on a counter, shelves are crammed full of books and magazines and other things, closets are stuffed to the point of spillage, clothes pile up on the floor or furniture, boxes and furniture and other miscellaneous things cover your floor. How do you even get started? If you haven’t yet, start by signing up for the free Clutterfat Challenge, a 30-day challenge to reduce your clutter.
I created the challenge, along with my friend Courtney Carver, to help motivate you to finally tackle the clutter. But once you’ve decided to dive in, how do you get started? There are two methods, both of which are great, and you can combine them. By the way, last night I held a free Clutter Webinar, and a recording of that webinar is at the bottom of this post. Also: Courtney has a post today on how to make decluttering fun. The Surge Clear your schedule for a day or two. Chunking. The Tiny Guide to Creating the Flossing Habit. ‘Floss the teeth you want to keep.’ ~dentist, quoted by Nick Crocker Post written by Leo Babauta. For many years, I rarely flossed, and as a result had some not-so-pleasant dental problems.
I always knew I should have been flossing, but could never make the habit stick. Creating the habit of flossing is a recent triumph for me, and because I’ve had a bunch of people ask about flossing, I decided to share what works best. Let’s start by saying I’m not an expert on flossing. I do know that flossing can fairly quickly improve your dental health. Your teeth will also start to feel cleaner, which is an amazing experience. Let’s take a look at how to form the habit of flossing. Forming the Habit These are the steps that worked for me: Pick a trigger. That’s really all it takes. Zenhabits. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - Lessons from a Faraway land: The effect of spatial distance on creative cognition. Abstract Recent research [Förster, J., Friedman, R. S., & Liberman, N. (2004). Temporal construal effects on abstract and concrete thinking: Consequences for insight and creative cognition.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 177–189] has identified temporal distance as a situational moderator of creativity. Keywords Construal Level Theory; Spatial distance; Creativity Introduction Performance on creativity tasks is highly valued in society (cf. Contrual Level Theory According to CLT (Liberman et al., 2007 and Trope and Liberman, 2003;), one’s mental representation of an event or object is a function of its psychological distance. Psychological distance, which is an index of “closeness” with reference to one’s self, determines the level at which an object is mentally represented. Construal level and creativity Notably, Förster et al. (2004) manipulated construal level exclusively by varying temporal distance. Spatial distance and creativity Overview of current research Method. Pick the Right Color for Design or Decorating with This Color Psychology Chart.
Why We Can't Tell Good Wine From Bad. Forest sounds – ambient sound of birds, creek, frogs and insects. Only a few people can boast that they were in the forest at night, but in the daytime almost everyone has visited this wonderful place. Some of them associate it with summer, barbecue, picnics, mushrooms, and berries; some like to walk along its paths in autumn to admire the beauty of bright autumn colors and inhale the fragrance of fallen leaves; some visit it in winter to enjoy its pure white snow cover. But now we are taking about the forest in summer. After spending so many hours in the asphalt jungles, it so pleasant to plunge into this endless verdure, feel the breath of fresh air on your face, smell divine fragrance of flowers, have a walk on winding paths all the time listening to the sounds of singing birds and bubbling brooks. But truly speaking, only lucky ones have enough time to be close to nature.
We are always busy doing something, we are always running somewhere and can`t afford to spare some time for relaxation. Сreek settings Birds settings Cicadas settings.