Our brain is a miracle. That’s what I thought when I watched this video (I embed the video below). In the video (which was suggested to me by Avani from Food for Mind), brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor described her experience when she was hit by stroke. Since she was already a brain scientist at [ Read More ]
Archive for May, 2008
Leo Babauta from Zen Habits recently emailed me about his new venture with Glen Stansberry from LifeDev. It’s an e-book publishing site called Web Warrior Tools that features e-books written by bloggers and writers from around the Web. This site helps people find the e-books they need. Even now when it just launched, there are [ Read More ]
Categories: Miscellaneous
Our brain is like muscles. The more you use and exercise it, the stronger it becomes. But, if you want to get maximum results, you should do more than just practice. What you need is deliberate practice. Deliberate practice is the kind of practice that stretches the boundaries of your capabilities. While in normal practice [ Read More ]
Categories: Thinking
Bad habits are among the worst enemies of living life to the fullest. Why? Because habit is something we do over and over again. While we do other kinds of mistakes occasionally, bad habit is something we do consistently over time. If even one mistake can drag your life down, you can imagine what kind [ Read More ]
Is there are a better way to learn about high-quality mind other than from the great minds themselves? Perhaps not. That’s why I watched a video from Google Tech Talks entitled On Getting Creative Ideas. It’s a lecture that features Murray Gell-Man who won Nobel Prize in physics in 1969 for proposing a fundamental particle [ Read More ]
Categories: Innovation, Thinking
Knowing what we shouldn’t do is just as important as knowing what we should. In fact, it could be easier to see something wrong in things we already do than to see something right in things we haven’t done. In mind development, it means that we should see how we do things and find what’s [ Read More ]
Categories: Innovation, Thinking
