Sorry I Murdered Everyone. I'm An Introvert.
Sorry I murdered everyone at your party, but as an introvert, I prefer one-on-one interactions to group gatherings. I’m really sorry that everyone is dead. I prefer animals to people.
Pourquoi le blues du dimanche soir ?
INTERVIEW - Tout le monde n’a pas la même vie et pourtant à peu près la moitié des gens en font l’expérience... Un psychiatre s’est penché sur les raisons plurielles de cette «mélancolie» dominicale. Avec quelques solutions à la clé.
Handwriting vs typing: is the pen still mightier than the keyboard?
In the past few days you may well have scribbled out a shopping list on the back of an envelope or stuck a Post-it on your desk. Perhaps you added a comment to your child’s report book or made a few quick notes during a meeting. But when did you last draft a long text by hand? How long ago did you write your last “proper” letter, using a pen and a sheet of writing paper? Are you among the increasing number of people, at work, who are switching completely from writing to typing? No one can say precisely how much handwriting has declined, but in June a British survey of 2,000 people gave some idea of the extent of the damage.
5 opinions mal informées au sujet des vaccins
Pour cette BD, j’avais envie de vous parler du vaccin contre la grippe. Mon but était de vous convaincre que le vaccin contre la grippe est efficace, sécuritaire et indispensable à la société moderne. Car c’est ce que je pense. Mais en faisant cela, j’aurais sauté des étapes… car avant de faire confiance au vaccin contre la grippe, il faut d’abord faire confiance aux vaccins en tant que tels. Vous avez probablement entendu parler de Jenny McCarthy et de ses efforts pour promouvoir l’idée que les vaccins causent l’autisme et d’autres maladies graves : Or, elle n’est pas la seule.
Les effets destructeurs du management à la cool - 9 août 2015
Pour comprendre la souffrance qui infuse dans les open spaces fleuris d’aujourd’hui, alors que jamais on ne s’est tant soucié de bien-être au travail, le nouveau livre de Danièle Linhart, « la Comédie humaine au travail» (sous-titré : «De la déshumanisation taylorienne à la sur-humanisation managériale»), est d’un recours précieux. Voilà une chercheuse du CNRS qui depuis trente ans observe les mutations sociales au travail. Pour mieux comprendre ses lois non écrites, ses faux semblants, elle se faufile dans les congrès de managers, avec le risque de s’y faire insulter. (C’est arrivé, nous le verrons plus loin.)
Like It or Not, “Smart Drugs” Are Coming to the Office
You’ve managed the same team for the past five years — then one day you find out that your most successful employee uses cognitive-enhancing drugs on the job. This scenario may not be hypothetical for long. The unauthorized use of prescription drugs such as the ADHD medications Adderall and Ritalin and the narcolepsy drug Modafinil is now common among American university students. They use these drugs not to escape work and avoid responsibility but to be able to work more and better. Up to 20% of Ivy League college students have already tried “smart drugs,” so we can expect these pills to feature prominently in organizations (if they don’t already). After all, the pressure to perform is unlikely to disappear the moment students graduate.
The complete guide to listening to music at work
If you’re reading this article at work, there’s a decent chance you’re wearing headphones. It has never been easier to tune in to your own customized soundtrack—or more necessary to tune out your open-office coworkers, cubicle mates, and fellow coffee-shop denizens. But not all music is created equal, especially when there’s work to be done. How should you choose the best office soundtrack for a given task? Which songs will help you get energized, focused, or creative—or even just through a very long day? Let’s start with the basics.
The Interleaving Effect: Mixing It Up Boosts Learning
We’ve all heard the adage: practice makes perfect! In other words, acquiring skills takes time and effort. But how exactly does one go about learning a complex subject such as tennis, calculus, or even how to play the violin? An age-old answer is: practice one skill at a time.
The Power of the Doodle: Improve Your Focus and Memory
Long dismissed as a waste of time, doodling is getting new respect. Recent research in neuroscience, psychology and design shows that doodling can help people stay focused, grasp new concepts and retain information. A blank page also can serve as an extended playing field for the brain, allowing people to revise and improve on creative thoughts and ideas. Doodles are spontaneous marks that can take many forms, from abstract patterns or designs to images of objects, landscapes, people or faces. Some people doodle by retracing words or letters, but doodling doesn't include note-taking.
Memories of errors foster faster learning
Using a deceptively simple set of experiments, researchers at Johns Hopkins have learned why people learn an identical or similar task faster the second, third and subsequent time around. The reason: They are aided not only by memories of how to perform the task, but also by memories of the errors made the first time. "In learning a new motor task, there appear to be two processes happening at once," says Reza Shadmehr, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
The 30 Second Habit That Can Have a Big Impact On Your Life
There are no quick fixes. I know this as a social science junkie, who’s read endless books and blogs on the subject, and tried out much of the advice — mostly to no avail. So I do not entitle this post lightly. And I write it only having become convinced, after several months of experimentation, that one of the simplest pieces of advice I’ve heard is also one of the best. It is not from a bestselling book — indeed no publisher would want it: even the most eloquent management thinker would struggle to spin a whole book around it. Nor is it born out of our world of digital excess and discontent.
Emotional Ergonomics: There's No Should. You Feel How You Feel. - Poly.Land
A core principle in the field of ergonomics is that a workstation should be designed with the user’s comfort in mind. The tools are laid out to serve the body. When we contort our bodies in an effort to match up with poorly aligned tools, productivity suffers. And repetitive strain injuries can follow.
