14 Feb Getting In Peak Mental Shape
Embrace sludge…
If you find that you’re living a life of digital distraction, struggling to stay focused, struggling to think . . . stop checking your messages and listen up. Two articles from Behavioral Scientist offer practical ideas for taking your brain back.
Most of the time we see behavioral science deployed to make things easier to do—to remove the “sludge.” Nudge4 Solutions Lab founder and director Ben Castleman points out that sludge can be a valuable tool for reducing time spent on mobile devices.
Behavioral Scientist editor Elizabeth Weingarten is taking baby steps to get her brain back in shape, and employing the “hassle factor” as she works to focus on only one thing at a time. Listen to (or read about) her experience here.
Check out this surprisingly effective, old-school solution to digital addiction.
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”—Thomas Merton
Things to focus on (one at a time)
Jazz musicians’ ability to improvise with unexpected chords mirrors their facility with out-of-the-box thinking.
Speed reading doesn’t make us smarter.
Diversity makes us smarter
But only if we listen.
“Dialogue first comes into being where there is not only speech but also listening. . . . To listen means to know and to acknowledge another and to allow him to step into the realm of one’s own ‘I.’ . . . Thus, after the act of listening, I am another man, my own being is enriched and deepened because it is united with the being of the other and, through it, with the being of the world.”—Josef Ratzinger
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