Arriving home from, what is the most thing you like to do? Relax. At least, that is what most people tell me and, to be honest, I feel the same every day. There are chores to make, last minute workflows to attend, but nothing is as compelling as “relaxing.” Then I ask...
We experience learning as hard, but much of how we use the physical and cognitive energy in learning depends whether we believe we can learn something or not. While we may think it takes willpower to learn new things, regardless of our age, our beliefs may have a more...
What is it? An unpleasant feeling? The absence of meaning? Or something else entirely? I was reading Mark Hawkins book on “The Power of Boredom,” a topic I’m researching and learning more. The association between boredom and nothingness was evident, but if we...
Today, being known – to the world or even your peers – means having an online presence. People think being online empowers them with presence. But is this presence real? I remember being interviewed once and praised by my online presence. I also remember a...
Habitual learning is what you get when you learn something repeatedly until it becomes a habit. For example, my sister is a dentist and told me I had to floss my teeth. I didn’t know how to do it properly, and the first times took quite a while. With time and...
It is not easy to persist, especially when you realize you invested time in the wrong idea. But if you don’t practice persistence, you may hardly find the way of resilience, one of learning’s most powerful forces. Even in the case of realizing we persisted in the...
Learning every day is something you can do. But can we remember at the end of every day what new things we learned? It’s not easy. Thus, although we know it should, we wonder if lifelong learning is a reality for us. I read in one of Seth Godin’s insightful...
We all heard about our attention span is smaller than a goldfish. The reason is in the collective. A recent study on Nature Communications made this point, ” the accelerating ups and downs of popular content are driven by increasing production and consumption of...
Being mindful means paying attention to new things and enjoy the present moment while doing it. It is likely to be the best way to find surprises in life. Photo by Flo Dahm at Unsplash We often complain about the lack of time for the things that matter, but easily...
Today I learned from Jim Kwik a simple tip for faster reading: point your finger to the words and read, following it. In the first round without this technique, I read 23 lines in one minute and afterward 35 lines. I read 1.5x faster without consistent training. What...
