- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Calculations
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of the brain as a computational device: It has a bunch of little components that perform calculations on some small aspect of the problem, and another part of the brain has to stitch it all together, like a tapestry or a quilt.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually became a producer because I saw the producers getting all the babes. They were stealing them from the guitarists.
- Guitarist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a great guitarist, and I'm not a great singer.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been interested in peak performance, why some people do better in life than others.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to blinker ourselves, to better monitor our attentional focus. Enforced periods of no email or Internet to allow us to sustain concentration have been shown to be tremendously helpful. And breaks - even a 15-minute break every two or three hours - make us more productive in the long run.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brain extenders are anything that get information out of our heads and into the physical world: calendars, key hooks by the front door, note pads, 'to do' lists.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
What it turns out is that we think we're multitasking, but we're not. The brain is sequential tasking: we flit from one thought to the next very, very rapidly, giving us the illusion that what we're doing is doing all these things at once.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our brains are very, very good at self-delusion. What happens is, it releases the stress hormone cortisol in the brain, which leads to foggy thinking, so you're not even able to judge well whether you're working well or not.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of the thousands of ways that humans differ from one another, turns out there's this one cluster of traits called conscientiousness that predict a whole host of positive life outcomes, such as longevity over our health, life satisfaction.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of us feel as though we are overloaded and overwhelmed by all the things that are happening, and we can't stop work for even five minutes or we'll fall behind: the idea that if we don't take breaks, we're being more productive.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Information overload refers to the notion that we're trying to take in more than the brain can handle.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to think that you could pay attention to five to nine things at a time. We now know that's not true. That's a crazy overestimate. The conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. Trying to juggle any more than that, and you're going to lose some brainpower.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're making a bunch of little decisions - like, do I read this email now or later? Do I file it? Do I forward it? Do I have to get more information? Do I put it in the spam folder? - that's a handful of decisions right there, and you haven't done anything meaningful. It puts us into a brain state of decision fatigue.
- Lion
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- Nov 07, 2020
We get stressed out now by having somebody yell at us in the office or by making a mistake or by losing a bunch of money. These aren't problems that our hunter-gatherer ancestors had. They'd get stressed if a lion came to them or a boulder was rolling towards their living quarters. That kind of stress provoked the fight or flight response.
- Chord
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- Nov 07, 2020