Sublime

For reasons that we’re coming to, it may well be that you have more aptitude—and more flair—for some activities that you’ve already tried than you realize.

When stereotypes are evoked, they fill people’s minds with distracting thoughts—with secret worries about confirming the stereotype. People usually aren’t even aware of it, but they don’t have enough mental power left to do their best on the test.

adults who learn how to juggle develop more grey matter in regions of the brain that track moving objects.

If we had to consciously process every decision, we’d never get past breakfast.

what is most interesting about these studies is not the fact that the productivity and the quality of the work decreases with multitasking, but that it also impairs the ability to deal with more than one thing at a time! This result is surprising, because we usually expect to become better at something the more often we do it. But on a closer look,

Une étude montrait que ceux qui choisissaient très tôt une carrière percevaient une meilleure rémunération à leur sortie de premier cycle, mais que ceux qui se spécialisaient sur le tard compensaient leur retard en trouvant un emploi qui correspondait davantage à leurs talents et à leur personnalité.

While you may think you can tune out these kinds of things, research consistently shows that you cannot. The ability to multitask is a delusion. Each input degrades your attention. Psychologist Daniel Kahneman memorably wrote, “The often used phrase ‘pay attention’ is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activi