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The Talking and Thinking Gap — Daniel Stillman
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There’s one key fact, he said, that every human being needs to understand—and everything else he was going to explain flows from that. “Your brain can only produce one or two thoughts” in your conscious mind at once. That’s it. “We’re very, very single-minded.” We have “very limited cognitive capacity.” This is because of the “fundamental structure
... See morefrom Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention And How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
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- It’s taken me a while to warm up to the idea that thinking is working, and that what is actually work can at first look lazy. I love Naval [Ravikant’s tweet], “Be too busy to do coffee while keeping an uncluttered calendar.” More often than not, spending two hours thinking about a problem is a much better use of my time than taking two calls withou... See more
from Sari Azout on Building Emotional Capital by Sari Azout
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