Dan Ariely talks about what he calls the present bias focus.
Posts Tagged ‘habits’
How To Do What’s Inconvenient
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011Why Work Doesn’t Work
Sunday, May 1st, 2011An interview with Jason Fried in Spark 146.
Plug into your hard-wired happiness
Friday, April 15th, 2011In this excellent talk at Columbia University, Srikumar Rao offers precisely the kind of cognitive toolkit to combat our ingrained preoccupation with success/fail outcomes standing between us and our own happiness.
Relax
Friday, April 8th, 2011To be productive is directly proportional to our ability to relax.
– David Allen
The Beauty of Disconnection
Monday, March 14th, 2011These are the moments when disconnection shows its glorious face, when life is in full force, when we are fully connected to the world immediately around us, while disconnected from the world at large.
– Leo Babauta in his book, Focus
Resistance
Monday, March 14th, 2011I like my resistance because it tells me exactly what I should do. Anything that the resistance warns me against is what I do.
Balance
Monday, February 7th, 2011Well said.
How to Beat Distraction and Create
Monday, November 15th, 2010If the problem is that these separate processes of creating, consuming and communicating get in the way of each other, the solution is obvious: we need to separate the processes. We need to create at different times than we consume and communicate.
– Focus
Slowing Down
Sunday, November 14th, 2010Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
– Lao Tzu via Focus
30 Minutes a Day
Thursday, October 7th, 2010An interesting third approach is one developed by a man named Paul Pimsleur. Pimsleur dedicated his life to understanding and improving language learning process. He observed that the first time you learned a new word, you’d forget it almost immediately. But if you reviewed it again as you were about to forget it, each subsequent review would exponentially increase the staying power of the word.