Brain Food: Not Typical
Do. Mastery requires practice. But not just any practice will do. Our brains are fantastic effort-saving machines, which can be both a tremendous advantage and a curse.
Scott Young • Get Better at Anything
Good decisions create time, bad ones consume it. Good initial decisions pay dividends for years, allowing abundant free time and low stress. Poor decisions, on the other hand, consume time, increase anxiety, and drain us of energy.
Multitasking, in short, is not only not thinking, it impairs your ability to think.
I find for myself that my firs... See more
Multitasking, in short, is not only not thinking, it impairs your ability to think.
I find for myself that my firs... See more
Farnum Street • How to Think: The Skill You've Never Been Taught
cognitive velocity. It was necessary, I concluded, to improve my sample efficiency .
I define intelligence, loosely, as sensemaking from the observation of patterns. A smarter person can detect patterns before a dumber person. The smarter mind is more efficient with the data it receives from the world. So what I really needed to do, while I still po... See more
I define intelligence, loosely, as sensemaking from the observation of patterns. A smarter person can detect patterns before a dumber person. The smarter mind is more efficient with the data it receives from the world. So what I really needed to do, while I still po... See more