Tejas Gawande
- Skinner’s three key insights — immediate rewards work better than delayed, unpredictable rewards work better than fixed, and conditioned rewards work better than primary — were found to also apply to humans, and in the 20th Century would be used by businesses to shape consumer behavior. From Frequent Flyer loyalty points to mystery toys in McDonald... See more
from Why Everything Is Becoming a Game by Gurwinder
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Gamification: Evolution of a concept from friend to foe
- At some point in their teenage years—and sometimes earlier—the future geniuses would apprentice themselves intellectually to someone with exceptional capacity in their field.
from Childhoods of exceptional people
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Exception people did some kind of cognitive apprenticeships in their teenage.
- Keep your Sails Up
During tough times, it is crucial to maintain a positive attitude and take actions that keep you motivated and uplifted.
Keeping your spirits high by engaging in small, positive activities like eating right, cleaning up, socializing, being kind, and generous can help navigate through challenging situations and prevent oneself from ... See moreKeep your sails up. Be ready for when the winds come
- The mathematical genius Alexander Grothendieck once had a metaphor for solving problems. He suggested that instead of forcing open an impossibly hard kernel with a hammer and chisel, one should simply let it sit in water and wait. Over time, the shell softens and opens with ease. This is also true in writing; time is the only non-substitutable ingr... See more
from Epiphanies Come From Waiting
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Epiphanies come from waiting. You need patience, to let your ideas transform into what they could be.
- I’ll first note the Latin phrase solvitur ambulando meaning “it is solved by walking.” The phrase is attributed to both St. Augustine and the Greek philosopher, Diogenes. The sense of it, as I take it, is that when you are stuck on something, you should get up and take a walk. By the act of walking you somehow allow your mind to think more freely a... See more
from The Ambling Mind
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Walk to allow your mind to think more freely and creatively
- Design has evolved to meet the challenge of the new relationship between people and the material goods they need. Today, designers — artisans, manufacturers, engineers, architects — think far beyond the way things look. Comparing pre-industrial design to post-industrial design with a picture is absurd. Critiquing a modern object based on its appear... See more
from Beauty in the machine: post-industrial design
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Ideas evolve gradually over years and decades into their final shape. The new form has many micro decisions behind it
- The right way is the hard way
from Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian, Innovator, Micromanager by Jerry Seinfeld
Where are you losing by trying to save? Where are you taking the cheap path rather than embracing the expensive?
Ask yourself these questions, make the necessary change, and start falling in love with the hard way.
- A lot of care went into curating the environment around the children—fascinating guests were invited, libraries were built, machines were brought home and disassembled—but the children were left with a lot of time to freely explore the interests that arose within these milieus.
A qualified guess is that they spent between one and four hours daily in... See morefrom Childhoods of exceptional people
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Exception people in their childhood had time to roam about and relied heavily on self-directed learning