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Dana Watts

What one college discovered when it stopped accepting SAT/ACT scores - The Washington Post - 0 views

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  • Dana Watts on 28 Sep 15
     
    'We’re done with standardized testing, the SAT, and ACT.'
Martin Leicht

Read This Story Without Distraction (Can You?) - The New York Times - 0 views

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multitasking monotasking distraction read focus

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      Martin Leicht on 18 Oct 16
       
      Unless of course the task is tortuous, then we are prone to look for distraction. We would rather help others work on this tortuous task.
  • by doing more you’re getting less done.
  • were enough to double the number of errors participants made in an assigned task
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  • interruptions as brief as two to three seconds
  • It’s a digital literacy skill
  • paying attention
  • If I keep looking at my phone or my inbox or various websites, working feels a lot more tortuous. When I’m focused and making progress, work is actually pleasurable.”
  • monotasking is “something that needs to be practiced.
  • humans have finite neural resources that are depleted every time we switch between tasks
  • Not the same as mindfulness, which focuses on emotional awareness,
  • I just stuff my brain full of them because I can’t manage to do anything else,” she said. “The sad thing is that I don’t get any closer to deciding which one I like.”
  • That’s why you feel tired at the end of the day
  • Almost any experience is improved by paying full attention to it
  • The more we allow ourselves to be distracted from a particular activity, the more we feel the need to be distracted.
  • Research shows that just having a phone on the table is sufficiently distracting to reduce empathy and rapport between two people who are in conversation
  • After spending a few days hiking in the Arctic by myself, I was able to get all of them done in just a few days.”
  • Start by giving yourself just one morning a week to check in, and remind yourself what it feels like to do one thing at a time
  • Practice how you listen to people
  • Put down anything that’s in your hands and turn all of your attentional channels to the person who is talking
Martin Leicht

Screen time and children - How to guide your child - Mayo Clinic - 0 views

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    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 01 Oct 16
       
      Involvement! It's all about involvement with your kids. It always has, we just conveniently forgot it with the advent of Smart Phones & Tablets.
  • Experts noted that children are still doing the same things that they've always done — only now they are often doing them virtually.
  • This means playing with your child, teaching kindness, being involved, and knowing your child's friends and what your child does with them.
Martin Leicht

Better Than Resilient - Prosilient | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • resilience means the ability to recover from difficult life events such as illnesses, setbacks in love and work, and bereavement
  • A resilient system is not just one that doesn’t change, but more importantly one that can deal with changes by recovering from them.
  • prosilience
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 02 Apr 17
       
      Prosilience - the ability to recover from change (snap back) and to get better.
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  • If life gives you lemons, make lemonade
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 02 Apr 17
       
      Life was pretty good (or just ok) with the lemons, now it is even better with Lemonade - Prosilience
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