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Now we can appreciate what I believe to be a classic, self-fulfilling positive cycle of evolution. Our shift from tree to ground sleeping instigated an ever more bountiful amount of relative REM sleep compared with other primates, and from this bounty emerged a steep increase in cognitive creativity, emotional intelligence, and thus social complexity. This, alongside our increasingly dense, interconnected brains, led to improved daily (and nightly) survival strategies. In turn, the harder we worked those increasingly developed emotional and creative circuits of the brain during the day, the greater was our need to service and recalibrate these ever-demanding neural systems at night with more REM sleep. As this positive feedback loop took hold in exponential fashion, we formed, organized, maintained, and deliberatively shaped ever larger social groups. The rapidly increasing creative abilities could thus be spread more efficiently and rapidly, and even improved by that ever-increasing amount of hominid REM-sleep that enhances emotional and social sophistication. REM-sleep dreaming therefore represents a tenable new contributing factor, among others, that led to our astonishingly rapid evolutionary rise to power, for better and worse—a new (sleep-fueled), globally dominant social superclass.
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
Vul and Pashler wanted to find out if the same effect extends to occasion noise: can you get closer to the truth by combining two guesses from the same person, just as you do when you combine the guesses of different people? As they discovered, the answer is yes. Vul and Pashler gave this finding an evocative name: the crowd within.
Noise
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
Vous devez montrer à votre employé qu’il n’a rien à craindre en donnant son avis, pour ce faire il vous faudra réagir avec gratitude quelle que soit la critique, et surtout montrer des « signes d’appartenance ». Daniel Coyle, auteur de The Culture Code [non traduit], décrit ces signes comme des manières non verbales d’exprimer « ta critique fait de toi un membre important de cette tribu » ou « tu t’es montré honnête avec moi et cela ne met en péril ni ton poste, ni notre relation ; tu as ta place ici ».
La Règle? Pas De Règles
Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
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