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Productivity is often a distraction. Don’t aim for better ways to get through your tasks as quickly as possible. Instead aim for better tasks that you never want to stop doing.
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
Who knows? Let me go try. And they’re too young to know what to be afraid of (Schaar, for example, has never had a serious injury). Plus, their brains aren’t completely developed so there’s less frontal lobe engagement. Long-term planning, critical thinking, a lot of these things aren’t fully online.” As we learned earlier, one of the causes of flow is transient hypofrontality—the shutting down of large swatches of the prefrontal cortex. Children, as Sherlin pointed out, are developmentally hypofrontal—meaning portions of their neocortex are not fully formed (the brain keeps developing until age twenty-five) and this makes them even more flow prone. “More than that,” he continues, “EEG studies of adolescents show their normal brain-wave pattern is much closer to the alpha wave/theta wave borderline that is baseline flow. No direct research has been done, but it looks like they’re hovering on the edge of the state much of the time.”
The Rise of Superman
Steven Kotler
Jones showed that observers tend to interpret an actor’s objective in terms of the consequence of the action. He offered the following simple example to illustrate the observer’s assumption of similarity between the effect and objective of an actor: A boy notices his mother shut the door, and the room becomes less noisy; the correspondent inference is that she wanted quiet. The essential point is what Jones called the “attribute-effect linkage,” whereby the objectives of the actor are presumed to be encoded in the observable outcome of the behavior.
Why People Keep Saying, “That’s What the Terrorists Want”
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