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How to be more creative and productive #LiveWell, #Motivation, #Reddit
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What are the best apps to keep you motivated and productive? #LiveWell, #Motivation, #Reddit
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: "Always discover your vision and the rest will follow" #LiveWell, #Motivation, #Reddit
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How "Stealing" from Great Writers Makes You Write Better And Think Bigger #EntreprenerTips, #EntrepreneurTips, #LifeHacks, #LifeTips, #LiveWell, #Motivation
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How "Stealing" from Great Writers Makes You Write Better And Think Bigger
We all have that day where your idea pool run dry and you just cannot find the suitable word to describe things in your mind. You then remember all those great lines from Ernest Hemingway and wonder why you never been able to form those brilliant sentences in your brain, while slowly fall into the abyss of self-deprivation.
Actually, it is not that hard to write like Hemingway. You just have to steal from him.
When you are reading some fascinating pieces from great writers, you may imagine yourself becoming a writer. You can, in fact, get one step closer by “stealing” something from them. Of course you are not plagiarizing their work, but learning some important writing skills from the masters.
Francine Prose shares how we can learn to write better by reading intentionally — outstanding writing is dressed up with language styles.[1] It is all about putting the right word in the right place, and this is exactly what you can learn by reading someone else’s passages. Here are the tips to boost your own writing skills.
Think about why they use those words
Choosing the correct words can elevate the standard of writing. In Prose’s book, she mentions that words are “raw material out of which literature is crafted.” Readers could read every word and analyze word choices. You will have questions such as, “Why do writers use these words?” and, “What do these words imply?” After all, you can learn and use them to improve your own work.
Think about how they phrase an idea
Good writing pieces not only contain interesting ideas, but also contain phrasing with constructed sentences. Prose discusses how “the well-made sentence transcends time and genre.” She thinks that a writer who is concerned about what constitutes a well-constructed sentence is on the right path. You may learn sentence patterns and word usage from great writers and then use them in appropriate ways when phrasing your own ideas.
George Orwell said his work was influenced much by the style of W. Somerset Maugham. Writing is the same for everyone and no different from every other skills that you can learn, the best way to improve is to learn it from the masters.
Read more, and think beyond the words
So, start reading now. Instead of just going through a book or any article word by word, think beyond the words.
Revisit the books that you love and be a bit more analytical this time. Mark it down if you come across some great sentences or ideas. Make a list of the sublime words used by great writers and learn from them.
I’ve been keeping a notebook with all my favorite sentences and phrases since I was small. It’s like my little dictionary and it has helped my writing a lot. Just imagine a book with all the greatest writers’ greatest words and ideas! Oh and you can actually expand it to some of the best quotes you’ve seen or the amazing movie lines you’ve heard about.
When you have a notebook like that, you’ll never lack an idea or ways of presentation because you already have a pool of thoughts that you can just take out any of them any time.
Let’s start with your favorite book or favorite piece of article! Pick that up and write down all the amazing ideas, words and sentences in it!
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[1] ^ Francine Prose: Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write them
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Workout Your Brain By Learning A New Word Every Day, You Will Get Smarter #EntreprenerTips, #EntrepreneurTips, #LifeHacks, #LifeTips, #LiveWell, #Motivation
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Workout Your Brain By Learning A New Word Every Day, You Will Get Smarter
Have you ever had the feeling of speechless because you are running out of words to speak your mind? Or have you ever read a word that you are familiar with but suddenly cannot recognize its meaning? Sometimes there also might be the case that you have a word in mind but you forget how to spell it right. These situations do not prove you are not intelligent enough but somehow show that your brain needs some more training.
Workouts aren’t just for your body, your brain needs that too.
The brain, anatomically speaking, cannot be called a muscle, though it is partly composed of muscle tissue.
There’s a very good reason though why experts use the analogy of exercising your brain as if it were a muscle. In both cases, you can be sure that if you don’t use it you’ll lose it. Evidence suggests that mental stimulation improves brain function[1] whilst also reducing the risk of cognitive decline and related diseases.
So what kind of exercise does a brain need? Probably learning more words.
Your body needs exercises, your brain needs new words.
Learning new words stimulates our brains in more than one way; it activates the brain’s visual as well as auditory processes.
We learn words by simulating how they sound and visualizing the concepts to which they are attached. Instead of taking time to sound out the words that the eyes see, the brain trains itself to recognize the words that are frequently seen together. [2] That’s why sometimes when a word is misspelled yet you can easily recognize it.
Whenever we read a word, the visual cortex of the brain is stimulated to help us recognize a word. With a continuous practice, our brains will get used to associating images and concepts. This helps to improve our memory because it becomes easier for our brains to recall the previous concepts with the existing stimuli.
Research also suggests that the brain is a dynamic organism.[3]
“The brain changes as we learn more vocabulary, no matter the age, as vocabulary is learned at all ages.”
When we try to acquire a new word, the gray matter density increases as a result of learning, despite the age.
Researchers have performed a brain image analysis to show that people with similar verbal IQs can have different verbal knowledge levels when they try to increase the gray matter density through vocabulary acquisition. In other words, learning a new word is a practice for our brains to grow so as to improve our intelligence.
Putting new words learning to another level and explore new realities.
So you see how learning new words has helped you train up your brain. What about putting new words learning to another level?
Learning a new language is, of course, an unsurpassable method for acquiring a huge amount of new vocabulary in a short amount of time. Aside from stimulating our brains though, a language also teaches us new concepts, and new realities.
Jay Rubin, the English translator to famous Japanese author Haruki Murakami, has illustrated this point finely:
“It’s still fascinating to sit back and realize that my brain is working in a totally different way when I’m functioning in Japanese. I very often feel I’m writing original -almost original- fiction. What’s on the page is Murakami’s prose, not his language.”[4]
Japanese and English are vastly different; aside from containing very different sounds, they are composed of completely different grammatical structures. According to Rubin, Japanese also contains what he refers to as “intangibles,” words that express concepts that don’t exist in other languages.
These “intangibles” can of course be found across many languages. They illustrate the importance of having a high competence in the native language if you’re living in a different country and want to truly immerse yourself in its culture.
Apart from those foreign concepts, new words in our own language can also teach us new concepts, even as adults. Need to learn something technical that you know almost nothing about? It is very likely that you will have to learn a whole set of new vocabulary.
Learning new words will not only improve and increase our brain function, but also give us the ability to open up new worlds we may not have known existed.
Kickstart with your brain workout schedule!
The way we use language is closely associated with our brain activity. Maintaining a large vocabulary is a sign of intelligence, and it also helps us with our mental health. So start from today, try to learn new words every day.
There are easy ways for you to learn new vocabulary anywhere anytime. Whether it’s through doing the daily crossword in the paper or trying out a fun new app like Dictionary.com. Just one click, you will see the word of the day with clear explanation and examples which allows you to fully understand its meaning and usage. Learning new vocabulary is a great way to spend your time (no matter how you use it).
For those who like to take on challenges, learning an entire new language might also be your option. You can try out some apps like Duolingo which provides word quizzes for you and motivates you to stay on track by keeping a learning record. If you have some more spare time, you can also take a language class to practise more with fellow classmates.
But my favorite way of learning new words and phrases is always from watching movies and listening to different types of songs. When I see or hear anything I’ve never come across before, I’d immediately put that down in my note (well it’s handy because I’m just jotting that down in my phone’s note app.)
One single new word every day will eventually make up a big list of words. Start from small and you’ll end up big!
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[1] ^ Havard Medical School: Can brain stimulation aid memory and brain health? [2] ^ Time: Your Brain Learns New Words By Seeing Them Not Hearing Them [3] ^ Academia.edu: Vocabulary and the Brain: Evidence from Neuroimaging Studies [4] ^ The Rumpus: THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW WITH JAY RUBIN
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If You Want To Be More Productive, You Need To Stop Work From Expanding #EntreprenerTips, #EntrepreneurTips, #LifeHacks, #LifeTips, #LiveWell, #Motivation
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If You Want To Be More Productive, You Need To Stop Work From Expanding
Have you ever decided to refresh your resume, only to see what should be a 30-minute job take weeks? Believe it or not, this has little to do with the nature of the challenge itself, but more your outlook and the amount of time that you allow for completion.
In this post, we will talk about the importance of mind-set and how you can become more productive when completing non time-sensitive tasks.
Parkinson’s Law: work expands when your give it too much time
The key to improving your productivity and avoiding procrastination is to understand Parkinson’s Law, which is an old adage which declares that ‘work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion’. It is a psychological principle that has inspired numerous studies and pieces of literature, and one that underlines the potential dangers of setting arbitrary time-frames that have little or no bearing on the task in hand.
In practical terms (and expanding our previous example), this means that you may allow yourself a week to complete the task of editing your resume. This is despite the fact that the majority of the required information is already included in the document, while tasks such as refreshing dates and proof-reading should not be particularly consuming.
Of course, you may set the arbitrary deadline of a week in order to alleviate any pressure that you are feeling, or simply because you need to submit a job application at this time. Affording yourself this unnecessary amount of time is actually counter-productive from a psychological perspective, however, as this increases the perceived complexity of the task and makes it seem more daunting. As the work expands to fill the time allotted, the task becomes harder to complete and in some instances this may even have a detrimental impact on the quality of your input.
Set time box for your every task
The main principle of this law is that the work expands to fill the allotted time, so the establishment of time limits and deadlines is the most effective. This is a process that must starts before tasks are started, as you analyse the requirements of each one and determine a reasonable (but time-frame for completion. As prominent life coach Karen Strunks says,[1] you need to be proactive and determine precisely how long individuals tasks are going, as “if you allow yourself two hours for a task, it will take two hours”.
This is an important mantra to remember, and in practical terms it should encourage you to establish clearly defined time boxes for every task that you have to do each day.[2] This will help you to instantly accomplish more within a shorter space of time, making your more organised and productive as a result. If you find that some projects are too large to complete within the predetermined time-frame, you should compartmentalise these into smaller tasks that are allotted their own time box.
When it comes to time-management, we have a tendency to allow more time than in necessary to complete relatively simply tasks. There are numerous potential reasons for this, but Parkinson’s Law suggests that this causes the work to expand and fill the allotted time, becoming more complicated and unmanageable as a result.
Understanding this is the first step to becoming more productive, however, as from here you can be more tenacious when setting time boxes for specific tasks and allow yourself to accomplish more within a short space of time. With this in mind, who knows what more you can achieve in your everyday life simply by adhering to a simple, but often overlooked, psychological principle.
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[1] ^ Bootbcamp Media: Interview with experienced life coach- Karen Strunks [2] ^ Medium: The Secret to Getting More Done in Less Time
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Embrace your responsibilities #LiveWell, #Motivation, #Reddit
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FUCK your excuses #LiveWell, #Motivation, #Reddit
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Focus on the things you can change and let go of the things you can't. #LiveWell, #Motivation, #Reddit
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[Small Things!] #LiveWell, #Motivation, #Reddit
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Human Minds Have Limitations In Reasoning, What You Believe Is Right Likely Is Wrong #EntreprenerTips, #EntrepreneurTips, #LifeHacks, #LifeTips, #LiveWell, #Motivation
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Human Minds Have Limitations In Reasoning, What You Believe Is Right Likely Is Wrong
How often do you ride on a car? Even if you don’t have your own car, you must have seen one. I want to start this piece with a small challenge for you. Using only your memory, recall it in your mind a car you often see.
Okay, I see the wheels, the window, and the overall car frame. Does it look anything like this?
Oh but wait, what about the headlights and tail lights? Where’s the handle for opening the doors? And where’re the mirrors?
Why would we miss so many of those things? Don’t we all have a clear idea what a car is like?
We believe that we know way more than we actually do.
Yes we do. In a study conducted at Yale[1], graduate students were asked about their understanding in everyday devices like toilets. Most thought that they were familiar with the device, only after they were asked to explain step-by-step how the device works did they find out how ignorant they were. Toilets are more complicated than they look.
We believe that we know way more than we do because most of the time, we only need to rely on others’ expertise to operate something. Take the bicycle and toilets as examples, we don’t really need to figure out how the whole thing works in order to operate them. As written by the authors of The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone,[2]
“One implication of the naturalness with which we divide cognitive labor is that there’s “no sharp boundary between one person’s ideas and knowledge, and those of other members of the group”
Very often, our knowledge and beliefs are actually someone elses’ without us even realizing it. Maybe you’ve already started to be more aware of this fact especially when the social media has such a great impact on our daily lives these days.
When deep understanding is not always required, biases arise.
The tendency that people embrace only information that supports their own beliefs is commonly known as “confirmation bias”, and it is dangerous. When we believe what we think is always right, our faulty thinking will harm the truth and disrupt our growth.
Did everyone really understand the political situations in the US before they voiced out their opinions? And it’s pretty obvious that not everyone in the UK understood the whole Brexit thing before they voted for it, right? These are just some of the many examples of how others’ beliefs and knowledge got easily spread over the internet and people just picked up those thoughts without further understanding the truth.
Business journalists often suffer from the confirmation bias. In the books The Art of Thinking Clearly[3], there’s an example about a statement “Google is so successful because the company nurtures a culture of creativity”, and how once this idea goes on paper, journalists only need to support the statement by mentioning other same successful companies without seeking disconfirming evidence. No more different perspectives, people will always see just one tip of the iceberg.
When winning becomes more important than reasoning, chaos come.
On the other hand, when presented with someone else’s argument, we tend to be more skeptical; and there comes the term “myside bias”.
In an experiment performed by a cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier,[4] participants had to answer some questions, and later they were presented their own answers but were made to believe those were others’ answers. They became a lot more critical about the answers than when they were simply asked to modify their answers to be better.
In some situations, when winning seems to be more beneficial, reasoning clearly becomes unimportant to most of us. And this makes us more blinded than ever to spot out our own weaknesses.
To think more clearly, “murder your darlings”.
“Murder your darlings” is the literary critic Arthur Quiller-Couch’s advice[5] for writers who are reluctant to cut their cherished redundant sentences in their works. We can apply this concept to how we think too.
To fight against biases, let go of your “cherished thoughts” that you have to be right, and set out to find disconfirming evidence of all your beliefs — whether they be relationships, political views or career objectives. The stronger you believe in something, the more you should seek out alternative views of it.
The rule of three
An even more effective way to overcome bias is using the rule of three[6]— identify three potential causes of an outcome. In fact, the more possibilities you can come up with, the less biased you’d be towards any single outcome.
Say next time, if you see an outcome that isn’t what you expect at work, instead of thinking it must be that irresponsible and careless guy who messed up the stuff, try to think of three potential causes: Maybe there’re instructions missing at the beginning? Maybe the guy already did his job but something went wrong afterwards? Maybe it’s something external that affected the outcome of this?
Thinking through alternative possibilities help unravel the unnecessary attachments we have to the “cherished” thoughts, so we can have a more complete picture of how things are. When you learn to “murder your darlings” and embrace different views, your horizon will be widened and you’ll see a limitless world.
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[1] ^ Steven Sloman, a professor at Brown & Philip Fernbach, a professor at the University of Colorado, The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone [2] ^ Steven Sloman, a professor at Brown & Philip Fernbach, a professor at the University of Colorado, The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone [3] ^ Role Dobelli: The Art of Thinking Clearly [4] ^ Cognitive scientists Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber: The Enigma of Reason (Harvard) [5] ^ Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch: On the Art of Writing [6] ^ Benjamin L. Luippold, Ph.D.; Stephen Perreault, CPA, Ph.D.; and James Wainberg, Ph.D.: Overcome Confirmation Bias
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A new research from Stanford University will change your mind (and your attitude). #LiveWell, #Motivation, #Reddit
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Why People Often Fail To Lose Belly Fat #EntreprenerTips, #EntrepreneurTips, #LifeHacks, #LifeTips, #LiveWell, #Motivation
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Why People Often Fail To Lose Belly Fat
Losing belly fat always seems to be a hard task. One reason is that there are many myths that make people’s efforts wasted. Below are 4 common ones .
Myth #1 Ab exercise is the most effective way
Many people believe in “spot reduction”, which means losing fat in an area by exercising that part. However, such exercise only strengthens the muscles there. Still, it would be covered by a thick layer of fat. This applies to all kinds of body fat.
So doing sit-ups or crunches wouldn’t be particularly effective if the aim is to burn belly fat.
The best exercise for fat loss is actually whole-body aerobic exercise. It can speed up our metabolism and hence burn calories faster.
Myth #2 Avoiding meat is a must
Many people think that meat makes us fat, probably due to its relatively high fat content. However, fat doesn’t make us fat. Excessive fat does. In fact, fat is one of the three key nutrients we need to ensure we have enough every day. The ideal ratio is roughly like this:
Carbohydrates: 50%
Fat: 30%
Protein: 20%
Fat is responsible for a lot of bodily functions like forming part of our cells. Instead of aiming at avoiding fat, look for healthy fats like those in fatty fish or egg.
Apart from fat, meat also contains a lot of nutrients like protein and iron. Lean meats like chicken are recommended. For red meat it is advised to be consumed once or twice a week.
Myth #3 Drastically cutting calories helps
If a person only eats an apple a day, he will lose weight soon and the belly would become smaller. But such change isn’t sustainable. Because when our bodies are getting far from required, metabolism will be automatically slowed down, which means the progress of losing weight will become slower, as the body learns how not to burn energies quickly.
Instead of drastically cutting calories, just have the right amount of calories.
Myth #4 Following one special diet works
From time to time a magic potion will appear and go viral. Headlines like these are common:
Drinking This Before Going to Bed Burns Belly Fat Like Crazy
Magic Drink To Lose Belly Fat In a WEEK
But there’s no one trick to lose belly fat. The only way out is balanced diet plus exercise.
Even if we’re talking about green tea which was proven by studies that three cups of it a day can help losing weight, it is still not enough to burn belly fat if we don’t pay attention to what we eat.
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Definitely struck a chord, even though I'm not all that into poetry. #LiveWell, #Motivation, #Reddit
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