Posts tagged: psychology
But with Apple things are different. They don’t just use an ugly cardboard box with their logo and a few stickers slapped on it. They actually give a great deal of thought to the design of the box itself. They think about what it looks like on the shelf, how it presents the contents to the purchaser, and what the experience will be like when you open it.
This is how a company can prove that it’s meticulous.
Whether you’re a student or well along in your career, if your goal is to build a remarkable life, then busyness and exhaustion should be your enemy. If you’re chronically stressed and up late working, you’re doing something wrong. You’re the average players from the Universität der Künste — not the elite. You’ve built a life around hard to do work, not hard work.
A great article on what makes high achievers amazing.
Have you ever wondered what a ghost sounds like? Engineer Vic Tandy may already know
Interesting.
About his recent sale of Lifepath.me, Dustin Curtis wrote:
For some reason, the default assumption is that charging for things on the web will never work, but, once you try it, even for something stupid like a life timeline, you might realize that assumption is incorrect.
I agree, I think people are willing to spend, as long as it’s frictionless and the price is low enough.
The insistent nature of Twitter 2, Facebook and a thousand games in your pocket has produced a generation that never experiences a dull moment. That means we also never experience a contemplative moment, a reflective moment, a creative moment.
An interesting case for boredom.
I caved and made the mistake of asking him what the quickest way for me to improve my chess skills was. What followed was some of the most insulting and profound advice I’ve ever received in my life. He pulled me aside and bluntly said “Josh, stop doing stupid shit.”
Investing time, 10,000 hours worth, in excellence makes you good.
In a classic Dartmouth University study, researchers found that the more prejudice someone had, the more their brain worked to inhibit offensive behaviour when they interacted with other races.
Those with more racial bias had greater activity in their prefrontal lobes, the area of the brain in charge of decision-making, controlled behaviour and other cognitive processes. When it was time for them to complete a cognitive test, their prefrontal region had worked so hard to control any offensive behaviour, they ended up performing poorly. Even a brief encounter with a black person significantly affected the test performance of some of the white participants.
So, intolerant people have less cognitive capacity available for thought? Interesting…
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…shyness and introversion — or more precisely, the careful, sensitive temperament from which both often spring — are not just normal. They are valuable. And they may be essential to the survival of our species.
An interesting read. For shy or introverted people out there, be glad for who you are!
Most everyone I meet feels pulled in more directions than ever, expected to work longer hours, and asked to get more done, often with fewer resources. But in these same audiences, there are also, invariably, a handful of people who are getting things done, including the important stuff, and somehow still managing to have a life.
What have they figured out that the rest of their colleagues have not?
The answer, surprisingly, is not that they have more will or discipline than you do. The counterintuitive secret to getting things done is to make them more automatic, so they require less energy.
Insightful article.
Sure, anyone who knows me would say, “Duh! Why did it take you so long to realize you’re an Introvert?” It’s not that simple. The problem is that labeling someone as an Introvert is a very shallow assessment, full of common misconceptions. It’s more complex than that.
It’s a good read, for both introverts and extroverts alike.
I later learned that my professor’s insights came from intuition. No one could explicate or decompose that sense for me, so I wrote these problems off. Who needs proofs to write software?
But I didn’t realize that these proofs are hard in the same sense as the most interesting problems in all fields: they have no obvious, closed-form solution. They’re Hard with a capital ‘H,’ and the contents of their toolbox apply just as well to, say, design problems.
Much to my dismay, I also learned at Caltech that a field’s greatest masters are likely not its greatest teachers. Pedagogy requires a different art entirely. So how can we teach insight, intuition, analytical thought?
My answer (as to most things): cognizance. Let’s articulate the inner monologue in solving a Hard (though fairly simple) analytical problem.
Insightful analysis on problem solving.
A full glass of optimism! (via HALF FULL GLASS).
![Proof of how many u-21 Sgporeans are still stupidly shortsighted and can’t see past PAP-dangled carrots. (by 假华侨中学 on Mobypicture).
With people like that, I’m absolutely not surprised why it is so difficult for the Singaporean society to be inclusive and gracious. Apparently, personal comforts supersede national and community interests.
[Via: @auturmis]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkvghrd1gU1qzo7fqo1_r1_1280.jpg)
Proof of how many u-21 Sgporeans are still stupidly shortsighted and can’t see past PAP-dangled carrots. (by 假华侨中学 on Mobypicture).
With people like that, I’m absolutely not surprised why it is so difficult for the Singaporean society to be inclusive and gracious. Apparently, personal comforts supersede national and community interests.
[Via: @auturmis]
I’ve never bribed my way into a restaurant. I’ve never slipped a C-note or greased a palm. In truth, I’ve never even considered it. I’ve assumed, of course, that people do such things. I’ve seen my share of Cary Grant movies. I’ve heard—and wondered whether such old-fangled gestures would work in the high-stakes, high-hype world of New York City restaurants. For everyday diners in Manhattan, cracking the waiting list at Nobu is said to be harder than getting courtside tickets for the Knicks. But is that true?
Things that I never knew were possible.
