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The human ain is a marvelous tool. However, it was designed for a very different world than we currently live in. As a result, it retains many design flaws that do not serve us well, especially in today’s business world where new ways of thinking and ongoing innovation are essential for success.
1. It jumps …
Really good image here to take to heart in your own marketing and digital interactions:
Recently, a colleague and I were discussing media and technology as being “social” or “not social”, and what this means in terms of private social networks, or PSNs, as an investment. I won’t go into the gory details of why …
There’s been an explosion of collaborative consumption — web-powered sharing of cars, apartments, skills. Rachel Botsman explores the currency that makes systems like Airbnb and Taskrabbit work: trust, influence, and what she calls “reputation capital.”
the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design — plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.
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Bobby Umar is a human teddy bear and a personal diary. People always want to hug him and share deep, personal thoughts with him, even after a first meeting. In this high-energy talk, Bobby shares his diverse personal history and how it made him a natural connector with a large number and a broad range of people. He then explains how you can leverage the power of connection to create more meaningful and genuine relationships and build positive change. Bobby’s passion is infectious, his message is simple, and his rapport with
Maybe it’s time to get more sleep…
Let’s get this out of the way first: no, you cannot play an audiobook under your pillow and wake up as a genius. No, we’re not a step closer to Inception.
That being said, there’s an interesting new study showing that people can learn new information when they sleep. …
by Maria Popova”Generating interesting connections between disparate subjects is what makes art so fascinating to create and to view . . we are forced to contemplate a new, higher pattern that binds lower ones together.”It seems to be the season for fascinating meditations on consciousness, exploring such questions as what happens while we sleep, …
Do we all have innate abilities that we just have to uncover?
Savants are usually defined as people – predominantly men – who possess unusual powers of memory, calculation or artistic skill in conjunction with severe mental deficiencies. The condition presents in men much more often than in women because, according to some scientists, high levels of …
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we’re not as rational as we think when we make decisions.
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Interesting study here, something you probably know off hand but it’s a good reminder when putting together marketing or other materials designed to persuade.
Why did a visual or verbal description make a claim more believable? According to the researchers, it stimulates your brain to produce “pseudoevidence.” Let’s say you read that John Key is …
Yes you read that right. Sometimes procrastinating can be effective and is exactly what your mind needs…
Often procrastination is a way to let ourselves do a less-than-perfect job on things that don’t require a perfect job anyway.
You may ask: Why should I want to know how to be a better procrastinator? Being a procrastinator …
