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Read Less, Understand More

10/07/2019 /
Nowadays, the information overloaded society in which we live forces all of us to face a huge amount of information that requires a lot of time. Read faster can help us to preliminary detect the useful information and to go more quickly through them saving time. For this reason, speed reading is a skill that everybody should learn to be more comfortable and more productive in our modern society.
In this TEDx video Jordan Harry CEO of StudyFast gives some practical advice to increase the speed reading without losing details.  He says that speed reading is not a superpower but it is a skill that everyone can learn and improve. The main aspect on which the people interested in achieving better reading performances must work concerns three bad habits:
  • SUBVOCALIZATION, that consists in saying words in your head while reading;
  • REGRESSION, that implies to get to the end of a page and realize you haven’t taken in what you read;
  • FIXATIONS, that tend to create spots on what we are reading which impede our speed.

Top Productivity Secrets – Master Class

26/06/2019 /

Productivity is probably one of the most commonly used words today.

All of us are looking for ways to improve, increase, hack or boost our productivity, whether that may be in the workplace or overall lives.

Articles are constantly being published and appearing on our newsfeeds on the latest secret to increasing our productivity.

Yet in all this mayhem we can end up feeling overwhelmed, not knowing which tips to implement. And we end up not doing anything at all.

In this free Masterclass, Niklas Goeke provides actionable tips that we can adopt in our everyday lives to improve our productivity without having to turn everything upside down. It’s all about small steps!

Click here to sign up to the Master Class (did I mention it is free?): Master Productivity – 14 Day Course

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Be orderly in life, be original in your work

03/04/2019 /

The contemplative life requires discipline and hard work, for sure. But it also seems to require some time indulging pleasures.

There is much fascinating variety in the daily habits of celebrity and creative humanists to be discovered browsing their biographies.

Monkish and lonely Nietsche used to eat incredible amounts of fruits at lunch, and a much loved beefsteak, before setting himself for long mountain walks in the Swiss Alps.

Prodigious Karl Marx was accustomed to working long hours at night, accompanied by ceaseless smoking.

Rather predictable and orderly Immanuel Kant tried to stick to the rule that he would smoke only one pipe, but the bowls of his pipes increased considerably in size as the years went on…

Remember Gustave Flaubert’s quote?

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” Maybe, the addition of a little “bad habit” or two might help too!”

Discover more in this article of Openculture …

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Balancing act

20/03/2019 /

Finding the right balance between success and self-improvement is a game we all play in our lives to a certain extent. Some of us tend to veer more towards one or the other, but they are both goals we strive for.

What habits can help us be more successful?

What habits can help us work on self-improvement?

Many times, they won’t be compatible. Author Niklas Göke suggests that instead of looking for those habits that fulfill both goals, we should first focus on those habits that are hindering us.

  • Give Up Reducing Your Dimensions
  • Give Up The Imitation Game
  • Give Up Looking in Favour or Seeing
  • Give Up Living in Outcomes
  • Give Up All Happiness Outside Yourself
  • Give Up Waiting
  • Give Up the Make Pretend
  • Give Up Anything But Loving Yourself

Here is the full article:  What Habits Does Your Best Self Not Have?

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13/03/2019 /

Oftentimes what makes our life really hard is criticism. Or rather, fear of criticism.

Pursuing our goals becomes a daunting task when we think people will be judging us; the fact that we are often our worst critics makes it even more daunting.

We’re told that we should just ignore those voices, just ignore those criticisms. But how can you do that when it’s your own inner voice telling you that everything you do is wrong?

Well, Brené Brown suggests we shouldn’t try to quieten those voices: we should rather tell them “Tell them, I see you, I hear you, but I’m going to do this anyway”.

Here is her wonderful TED Talk on Criticism:

 

The Power of Less

06/03/2019 /

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by all that you have to accomplish, all the deadlines, responsibilities?

Do you ever wonder how on earth you can juggle it all, obtain good (if not excellent) results, while still remaining sane?

Well, here is the simple answer: you just can’t.

It is important to learn how to prioritise our tasks and identify small steps that can help us to reach our goals in a progressive way. Only by doing so will we be able to be productive and stress-free at the same time.

In his book “The Power of Less”, Leo Babauta talks about how to find what is truly important to you and how to pursue it successfully in order to lead a satisfying life.

Here is a quick (only 4 minutes!) summary of the book: Four Minutes Books – The Power of Less

And here is the book for those of you who wish to read all of it: The Power of Less

The TEDx you should not miss (or watch again and again….)

09/01/2019 /

If you were to watch only 1 TEDx which one you should not miss? This one! (55 million viewers cannot be wrong….).

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson, speaking for TED talks, makes an interesting case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

Creativity is, according to him, the process of having original ideas that have value and it is possible only if we are not afraid of being wrong!
Children are not afraid and for this all children are creative. But schools teach them not to make mistakes and so they begin to stigmatize mistakes…

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