As the children go to school, we ask ourselves how to nurture their gifts. At the same time, we try to nurture our own inner child. Can we change our lives by dealing with the inner child? Today’s post is inspired by what you can read here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. The …
Core values and narratives
The way people feel inside has very little to do with their objective achievements or social status. We can set smart goals, achieve them and fee miserable. Alternatively, we can feel energised by doing the right thing. The difference is the story we tell ourselves. For today’s reading please consider articles here, here, here, here, here, …
Think Beyond the Borders: How to Write Creatively About Ordinary Things
In my posts, I often use creativity for problem-solving, visualization or art. My choice of creativity is very structured and productive. But there are many forms of creativity. In this post, Michelle Brooks uses creativity as a form of inspiration. She even uses her own word for it: extraordinification . I think you will love it and …
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Superlearner story: Otis the musician
How important is productivity as a part of our training? Recently, I started to feel that my posts went too far from memory and speedreading methodology. As I was contemplating returning to more basic materials and reframing my approach, I was approached by several students who could not function due to bad productivity training. So …
How to Set Goals and Create a Powerful Vision of Your Life
What is a life worth living or a book worth reading? This is very personal. Everyone has a different set of tools, values, and passions. In this excellent blog post, Alice Berg uses her experience as a career advisor to focus the reader on asking the right questions. This is not a regular SMART goal post, …
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Getting to the next level
This post is a bit strange to me. I delayed writing it for several months. Eventually, my curiosity won, and I decided to explore the ideas presented for example here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Unlike most of my posts, what I describe here is highly controversial and you are not advised to …
Reaching peak performance and productivity
While most jobs feel like long marathons where we cover a huge way over many years, certain jobs require short periods of peak performance. For either sprint or marathon, reaching the peak performance can be the holy grail of productivity. For today’s reading, I went with articles here, here, here, here, here, and here. Sprint vs …
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Beware of rhetorics: you are being brainwashed
We are being brainwashed all the time. Fortunately for us, the brainwashing is not focused and we are capable to resist. How to fight manipulators effectively? We will discuss below. For further reading you are welcome to visit here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Who tries to manipulate us? Brainwashing is so …
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Dealing with existential cirsis
Most of us have a mid-life crisis at some point. If I was a millennial, I would also have a quarter life crisis. Once you finish school or an Ivy League university, there are simply too many things to master. I still have many years to prepare a speech for my kids, so I thought …
Healing through visualization
In this blog, we treat learning not only as a simple process of reading and memorizing but also as a more complex process of personal growth. Either way, one of the obstacles we often face is a pain, mainly from past traumas. For this post you may want to read here, here, here, here, here, here, …