Why thinking on paper is a fast way to focus | Ryder Carroll

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Ryder Carroll: I think one thing that we often kind of forget is just because something is convenient does not make it efficient. So a lot of times with data entry if you type, for example, it happens a lot faster but in that process a lot gets lost because you’re just kind of parroting the source, and I think that it’s really important to actually hear what’s being said than just simply kind of spitting it back out onto paper. So when you’re writing a lot of the time what you want to do is reduce the amount of information that you’re capturing only down to what truly matters. So you’re distilling information in real time. And in order to do that you have to think about what truly matters. And I feel like writing by hand allows us to think significantly more about the information that we are writing down. I mean the actual act of writing activates very many different parts of our brain simultaneously. From the signs that I’ve seen it doesn’t happen when you’re typing. So, for example, students that were separated into two separate groups – one was allowed to take notes via handwriting and the other via typing. And the group that wrote by hand retained the information significantly longer and significantly more accurately. So I think that when you concentrate and you focus on writing you are engaging with content significantly more. You have to. The weight of the pen, the ideas, the concepts that you’re trying to distill down to what matters, how your handwriting looks, how quickly you’re writing and all those things immediately focus your attention more so than I would say typing would. For the last ten years I’ve been a digital product designer and I noticed that my journaling actually allowed me to think in a completely different way. So even when I would be designing different kinds of software applications from watch interfaces to video game interfaces it always started out on paper. And over time I realized that the more I could actually take my thoughts offline, the clearer they would become and the more I could focus. Because you could sit down and start typing out, you can journal in an app but I notice I’d be journaling in an app and the next thing I knew I’m ordering shoes online and you have no idea how you got from one point to the other. But when you sit down with a notebook and as soon as you engage with the page you are unplugged. So it forces you to really engage with your thoughts in a way that I feel has not been accurately replicated in the digital space. So for me the act of Bullet journaling is an act of thinking. It’s an act of unplugging and actually processing the information. And in my community I’ve found that that’s also provided significant value to people who get caught up in the rush of everyday life. It’s a moment that you can take back. It’s a moment where you can really have the luxury of sitting down and starting to digest the things that you otherwise can easily be overwhelmed by. So decision fatigue is when you find yourself literally exhausted by the amount of decisions that you have to make because we’re constantly inundated by so many different things from so many different channels. All that information requires our attention, and a lot of that information actually requires us to act. And acting on information is essentially making a decision. So do you want to go watch this movie? Do you want to go on this trip? Do you want to respond to this email? Do you? Do you? Do you? Do you? You have to constantly keep asking yourself and you’re making decisions.

Being busy all the time is a habit you made. You can unmake it. | Dan Pontefract

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink The current approach today is essentially we’ve entered into a culture of freneticism—that’s a Big Think word, and that means we’re really busy. But I believe we’ve created the business on ourselves. Ultimately we’ve become distracted by SQUIRREL the next thing that pops into our head or the next thing that pops onto our device or the next thing that pops into our laptop; we’re addressing it. And for some reason we think it’s a good idea to attend to every notification, every want of an employee, every need of a boss. And so we are loading ourselves up with more to do. We are ultimately working on the next thing while we’re doing the current thing at the same time. We think that multitasking is a badge of honor. We think that “do more with less” is the corporate mantra that’s going to take us to gold medal plates. And it’s frightening. And what we need to do is to take a step back and say, “How did we get here, is it good, and what’s in store for the future?” We go from one meeting to another. We’re in a peripatetic state. We’re just ultimately going from the 8:00 to the 9:00 to the 10:00 to the 11:00. We used to go out for lunch and pause, but now we go get lunch, we bring it to our desk and we stare at another device trying to catch up with everything we haven’t done between 8:00 and 12:00, and then we go to the next meeting at 1:00, and we end up at 5:00. And then maybe we pick up the kids or we’ve got to go to soccer practice. And instead of looking at the soccer practice and the kids at that soccer practice we’re looking at our device, because there’s eight more texts and 15 more emails that have come in. And now it’s 7:00 and you’ve got to make dinner. And at 7:00 and it’s dinner you’re like “Well, I don’t actually know how to make dinner anymore” so you order. And then while you’re ordering you’re attending to all your social streams.You’re saying “Oh! Well, I forgot how much I like dopamine, so I like those red things on my phone and my laptop that say hey, I’ve got eight likes on Instagram and 24 likes on Facebook. Maybe I’ll post more.” And then all of a sudden 16 more emails come in and you’ve got 14 more tasks to do because now you’re at 9:00. “Well, I don’t know, maybe I should just watch something”.

The tragedy of this American moment: Populism, elites, and the 2020 election | Anand Giridharadas

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Anand Giridharadas: You know that old saying about the fox guarding a henhouse? So I like to tell a different version of that story with a backstory. We’re the hens, regular people trying to live our lives. And we had a guard of the henhouse—it was the government. It wasn’t perfect but it did a reasonable job of protecting us from each other, guarding equality, making sure none of the hens were pecking the other hens too much. And then came along the last 30 to 40 years a fox, and the fox is big business and wealthy people. And the fox didn’t like the guard because the fox kind of... wanted the hens to itself. And so what did the fox do? Bit that guard in the leg. It argued that government was bad, “The government was the enemy,” and defunded government, had fought for lower taxes so government could do less stuff. Then the guard starts stumbling away and bleeding out. Off the scene the hens are unguarded, and the fox presents itself to the hens and says, “What a shame! Government is just not what it used to be, not protecting you! Not fighting for you. It’s so inefficient. It’s so, gosh, that’s so sad. Well, let me step in! I’m rich and I’m here to help.” Well, rich people and wealthy corporations spent a generation waging a war on government, defunding government, allowing social problems to fester and allowing their own profits to soar. And then, with government weakened, social problems multiplying and their own pockets full, they reinvent themselves as the new replacement of government, which is—instead of trickle down economics we now have trickle down change: Let them make their fortune, and then they’ll just throw some social change down from the mountain. Well we have to decide in America if that’s the kind of change we want. But what I do know is if you project that kind of change backwards throughout time we wouldn’t have created most of the change that we all take for granted today. I mean if—there would, frankly, have been no New Deal. There’s be no modern American economy if we had depended on the powerful to throw down scraps.

She Quit Her Job 12 Months After Starting To Sell On Amazon FBA

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Reason Behind Of My TV's Work | Qasim Ali Shah

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Single Mom Makes $75k/Month On Amazon FBA (And Loses 91 Pounds Of Fat!)

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The huge social impact of learning to love books | James Patterson

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink There’s a program that I’m involved with at the University of Florida, right now Florida the percentage of kids reading at grade level is 43 percent. The best in the country is Massachusetts at 62 percent so nobody should be standing up and going look at our stay we’re 62 percent. So it’s not good anywhere. The University of Florida has been working on a program for five years up in the Gainesville area, not Gainesville itself because there are too many professor’s kids in the town, but outside and they have it up into the 80s. So I’ve been working with them and we went to the state legislature in April and we met with the head of the senate and several senators and the house and they gave us two counties in Florida and they said you don’t have to get 80s but if you get good numbers you get numbers in the 60s we will take that program across the state, which would be spectacular. It’s a win/win/win for the kids, it’s a win for the teachers, it’s a win for the state. Everybody wins. And when I go and talk to the legislature and when I go in and talk to big groups of librarians or teachers I’ll always say I’m here to save lives. And I really want people to get that in their heads because that’s what’s happening. I go sometimes now to prisons and primarily what you’ll find there are a lot of relatively young African-American kids, and most of whom didn’t read at all in high school or almost none, weren’t good readers; now they read like crazy because it’s the only thing they can do. And the irony is incredible. Most of them are pretty good readers now. Had they learned, had we got that percentage of kids reading at grade level up higher to the point where they got to high school they were competent readers they might have stayed with it. But if you get to high school, you get to the ninth grade and you are really like, “A-bra-ham Li—,” you know, you can’t keep up here, and you go “I can’t do this. It’s not relevant, I can’t do it, so I’m not going to stay here, I’m not going to stay in school,” which is a disaster. And I really mean it when I say that we can save lives—and thousands of lives. If we do this thing in Florida we will save thousands of lives in Florida. And any state that can solve the problem is going to save thousands of lives. Plus you can improve the economics of the state because you’re going to have that many more people who can go out into the workforce, that have choices. That’s important. It’s a hugely important thing. And I think it’s kind of a sacred mission. I have an imprint at Little Brown called Jimmy Books and our mission, which is—I think kind of simple but I think it’s smart—is when a kid finishes a Jimmy Book they’ll say, “Please give me another book,” as opposed to, “I hate books. I don’t like to read.” Because there are millions of kids running around this country right now that do not like to read, they’ve been introduced to it incorrectly. If we taught film to little kids and we started with Ingmar Bergman movies, then they’ll go “Oh I don’t really like movies.” And unfortunately that’s what we do with kids in a lot of English classes! Let’s go through a million rules you need to learn, and that’s not the most interesting thing, and then we’re going to make you read a lot of stuff that isn’t really relevant to you yet or you’re not really that interested, and then you wonder why kids are going, “I don’t like to read.” Because you’re introducing it to them badly. So I want to try to make sure that what we do that they’re going to love the stories and at the end of it they’re going to say “give me another book.” Not junk, not like the kind of food you can’t remember whether you ate or not; I want them to remember that they read a book, but that they want another book.