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- Intellectual Flexibility
- To change an organization you must first change minds. A. Regard every belief as a hypothesis. The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management’s unexamined beliefs. Music can only be sold on shiny discs? Don’t bet on it. The news has to be delivered on a big piece of flimsy paper? Not [...] Read more – ‘Intellectual Flexibility’.
- Viktor Frankl — Why to believe in others
- In this rare clip from 1972, legendary psychiatrist and Holocaust-survivor Viktor Frankl delivers a powerful message about the human search for meaning — and the most important gift we can give others. If we take man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take him as he should be, we make him [...] Read more – ‘Viktor Frankl — Why to believe in others’.
- Creative Destruction
- Joseph Schumpeter applied the term “creative destruction” to the dynamic of the market economy. Not only does the new technology displace the old: the new company displaces the old. Innovation mostly comes from entrepreneurs outside established businesses, engaged in an endless succession of experiments. Most fail, but not all. …The established firm more often responds [...] Read more – ‘Creative Destruction’.
- Physical Clutter Negatively Affects Your Ability To Focus & Process Information
- When your environment is cluttered, the chaos restricts your ability to focus. The clutter also limits your brain’s ability to process information. Clutter makes you distracted and unable to process information as well as you do in an uncluttered, organized, and serene environment. The clutter competes for your attention in the same way a toddler [...] Read more – ‘Physical Clutter Negatively Affects Your Ability To Focus & Process Information’.
- How Can We Make Better Decisions? Brain science helps redefine decision-making
- An excerpt from an interesting article highlighting some of the recent findings of brain science on making better decisions: Alex Pouget, associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester, has shown that people do indeed make optimal decisions-but only when their unconscious brain makes the choice. …Roy F. Baumeister, a social [...] Read more – ‘How Can We Make Better Decisions? Brain science helps redefine decision-making’.
- Expectations Make A Difference
- Knowing what to expect colors so much of our life’s experiences. The key is understanding what you control. There are two sides of expectations — what we expect from others and what we expect from ourselves. And how we manage those expectations is critical to how we view our experiences and pursue our goals. … [...] Read more – ‘Expectations Make A Difference’.
- The Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips
- Many of us have constant access to information. We are so used to looking up the answer to any question immediately that it can feel like withdrawal when we have to wait. Of course, storing information outside of our brains is nothing new. I came across this interesting study: “We investigate whether the Internet has [...] Read more – ‘The Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips’.
- The Risk-Compensation Effect
- Jonah Lehrer with an interesting article in WSJ on our belief that risks can be overcome with technology: Though antilock brakes should make cars safer to drive, studies have demonstrated that drivers with such systems drive faster and brake later. The same goes for cyclists and skiers who wear helmets; they tend to move more [...] Read more – ‘The Risk-Compensation Effect’.
- Classical Conditioning And Why It Matters
- Classical conditioning (also known as Pavlovian Association) is one of the most basic forms of associative learning that was first demonstrated by Ivan Pavlov and his dogs in 1927. This Scientific America piece takes a closer look: Classical Conditioning, Explained The most important thing to remember is that classical conditioning involves automatic or reflexive responses, [...] Read more – ‘Classical Conditioning And Why It Matters’.
- Exercise Info — Not Calorie Counts
- Interesting Nudge: Sugary drinks like soda are a big cause of obesity, but public health types haven’t had much luck convincing the public of that. But what if you knew that it would take 50 minutes of jogging to burn off one soda? When researchers taped signs saying just that on the drink coolers in [...] Read more – ‘Exercise Info — Not Calorie Counts’.