S'ennuyer, c'est bon pour l'esprit
Temps de lecture: 2 min — Repéré sur Time La prochaine fois que vous trouverez le temps long dans le train ou la salle d'attente de votre médecin, dites-vous que ces longues minutes d'ennui vous font du bien. D’après une étude, publiée dans le magazine Academy of Management Discoveries, l’ennui pourrait stimuler votre productivité et votre créativité. Ce sont les résultats d'une étude pour laquelle des scientifiques ont constitué deux groupes de personnes: le premier devait effectuer une tâche ennuyeuse, comme trier des haricots par couleurs, le deuxième une activité artisanale intéressante et stimulante. «L’ennui repose sur la recherche d’une simulation neuronale qui n’est pas satisfaite», a déclaré au Time Sandi Mann, maître de conférence en psychologie à l’Université de Central Lancashire au Royaume-Uni et autrice de The Upside of Downtime: Why Boredom Is Good. S'ennuyer de la bonne manière Attention à ne pas confondre relaxation et ennui.
10 Laws of Productivity
You might think that creatives as diverse as Internet entrepreneur Jack Dorsey, industrial design firm Studio 7.5, and bestselling Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami would have little in common. In fact, the tenets that guide how they – and exceptionally productive creatives across the board – make ideas happen are incredibly similar. Here are 10 laws of productivity we’ve consistently observed among serial idea executors: 1. Break the seal of hesitation. A bias toward action is the most common trait we’ve found across the hundreds of creative professionals and entrepreneurs we’ve interviewed. 2. When our ideas are still in our head, we tend to think big, blue sky concepts. 3. Trial and error is an essential part of any creative’s life. To avoid ‘blue sky paralysis,’ pare your idea down to a small, immediately executable concept. 4. When working on in-depth projects, we generate lots of new ideas along the way. 5. 6. 7. 8. Few activities are more of a productivity drain than meetings. 9.
Three Technologies That Changed Our Brains | Nicholas Carr
With rendition switcher Question: What are some technologies, prior to the Internet, that have radically reshaped the way our brains work? Nicholas Carr: I think that if you look across the entire world of tools and technologies, what you see is that there are different categories. And before the map came along people understood where they were and where they were going purely through their sensory perceptions, through what they saw, also what they hear and so forth. And I think you see a similar thing when the mechanical clock comes around. So here again, we see an intellectual technology, that beyond its practical uses really changed in a kind of fundamental way, I think, the way people think. At about the same time, a little after the arrival of the mechanical clock, we saw the introduction of the printing press and hence printed books, which replaced handwritten books. I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.
10 Awesome Videos On Idea Execution & The Creative Process
At 99U, we try to demystify the creative process. To show you the real inner-workings of how ideas are made to happen by sharing the thought processes and creative practices of great achievers. Here, with the help of our readers, we’ve rounded up some of the best videos on idea execution from artists, writers, designers, storytellers, researchers, and chocolatiers. 1. It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened. 2. The most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. 3. Sometimes we over-value our own experience. I know that being right is a pretty deadly thing. 4. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all. 5. Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius. 6. Procrastination is finding the most difficult way of doing something, is jumping from one idea to another to another, is checking your emails. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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Can We Download Our Brains? | Dr. Kaku's Universe
With rendition switcher Question: Will it be possible to transfer one’s memory into a synthetic medium in our lifetime? (Submitted by Tomas Aftalion) Michio Kaku: Tomas, you ask a very controversial question. The question is, can you download our consciousness into a chip and have that chip being stored into a computer and basically have our personalities last forever; we would be immortal. Well, first of all, that raises a question: who are we anyway? Well, first of all, you ask for a timeline.
Unleashing the Power of Networked Learning - Martha Stone Wiske - Innovations in Education
by Martha Stone Wiske | 9:57 AM March 21, 2011 Editor’s note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. How do we unleash the power of networked learning? What is the nature of that power and what levers must we wiggle to generate effective learning through online technologies? I’ve taught a course about these questions for many years at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and this year I notice a shift in the answers my students are developing. As in prior years, we read and think about how to build online learning communities: The educational design of the course is the same as it has been for years. So what’s different now? Networked learning continues to fuel uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East. What’s different is that the top-down, center-out approach to traditional education is dramatically diminished. Dr.
Comment respirer pour relaxer et augmenter la concentration? | Rendez-vous au-delà du déficit d'attention
Le contrôle de la respiration est une des méthodes les plus simples pour relaxer et augmenter votre concentration. Voici un exercice simple qui vous apportera d’heureux bénéfices en moins de 2 minutes. Je vous invite à les expérimenter et à choisir celui qui vous plaît le mieux. Pour ma part, ma respiration préférée est la « respiration alternée » qui me met toujours un sourire aux lèvres! 1. Inspiration pendant 8 secondesRétention (poumons pleins) pendant 8 secondesExpiration pendant 8 secondesRétention (poumons vides) pendant 8 secondes Bénéfice C’est la respiration relaxante par excellenceElle permet de rétablir un équilibre émotionnel 2. Bien assis, le dos droit, fermez les yeux;Bouchez votre narine droite avec votre pouce droit. Bénéfices Vous permet de balancez les deux côtés de votre cerveau; le côté créatif et le côté rationnel. Quel est l’effet que ça vous fait?
