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Alyssa Lau

JOHN GREEN: Make gifts for people - StumbleUpon - 0 views

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    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 29 Sep 13
       
      The moral was that you should not do something to make money. You should not make something for someone else make it to make it because you enjoy doing so.
    • Alyssa Lau
      Alyssa Lau on 30 Sep 13
       
      I agree with John Green's philosophy that it is better to do something that will make you give gifts to someone.  It's does not matter if you do not get noticed, but it is always better to give back to the community, so that the community will always be better. 
Emily Vargas

ZEN PENCILS - 123. ERICA GOLDSON: Graduation speech - 0 views

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    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 29 Sep 13
       
      He is not a worker, but he is a robot.
    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 29 Sep 13
       
      He was successful because he did what he was told and worked to the best of his advantage.
Emily Vargas

Five Classic Ways to Boost Your Note-Taking - 0 views

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  • Divide your page into two columns. The left one
  • You're going to jot larger ideas in this column:
  • In the right column, you're going to take down as much information as possible
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  • Some versions of the Cornell system leave the last few lines on each page for summarizing the whole page
  • cover the detailed notes on the right and just examine the main points and new vocab
  • have pictures and tables—it's not necessarily organized
  • But unless you try it, you'll never know if it works better for you.
  • Color-code with different pens, pencils, and highlighters.
  • Trying some new shorthand is a really geeky way to slightly tweak your engravings and get you amped about taking notes again.
  • It's mostly based around removing unimportant letters and making complex letters easier to write quickly.P
  • you might try translating just some of your most-frequently used words into a shorthand "language" that takes less time to writ
  • Record your lectures
Brian Walsh

The Zen of floating - The Week - 0 views

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  • were frightened of contracting HIV from infected water in float-tank centers. The business dried up.
    • Rebecca Lurie
      Rebecca Lurie on 29 Sep 13
       
      Even when a product is doing great in sales, it can plummet because of a specific even that changes everyones view.
  • creativity in artists.
  • brain's focus from its dominant to its non-dominant hemisphere
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  • can improve
    • Paul Brahan
      Paul Brahan on 30 Sep 13
       
      Very interesting article about the benefits sensory deprivation chambers provide. 
  • The saturation of Epsom salts in the water made me unnaturally buoyant — my face, stomach, and knees an archipelago of islands amid the tub's ocean.
    • Brian Walsh
      Brian Walsh on 01 Oct 13
       
      So you go from bored, to anxiety, to peace?
  • For a tank newbie like me, the more intriguing aspects of floating include 1) its possibly imagined, Lilly-esque potential to reveal hidden layers of consciousness within, and 2) its proven capacity to chill people out. Suedfeld happily acknowledges point two. "Anything related to psychological stress," he says, "whether it's chronic tension headaches, insomnia, things with no known physical cause…after several floats, they really seem to improve."
    • Brian Walsh
      Brian Walsh on 01 Oct 13
       
      Are Epsom salts supposed to give a more relaxing feeling? Could it be the salts helping or just the actual floating?
  • There was no clear line between consciousness and unconsciousness. (I had no fear of drowning, as my buoyancy was such that it would be nearly impossible to roll over accidentally.)
Rebecca Lurie

Can You Build a Better Brain? - Newsweek and The Daily Beast - 0 views

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    • Tom McKean
      Tom McKean on 29 Sep 13
       
      Muscular Strength is also a lot less complex than our brain.
  • People who use their gym locker tend to be fitter than those who don’t, but it is not using a gym locker that raises your aerobic capacity.
  • Whether you go neuro-slumming (Googling “brain training”)
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  • (searching PubMed, the database of biomedical journals, for “cognitive enhancement”)
  • if scientists understood the mechanisms of intelligence even half as well as they do the mechanisms of, say, muscular strength.
  • but the number of rigorous, well-designed studies that will stand the test of time is much smaller,”
  • Be skeptical
  • depending only on whether attention is being paid.
  • we don’t pay much attention to them
  • cognitively demanding activity
  • To be determined: whether a nicotine patch delivers the benefits without the risks.
  • by simply believing that you’ll do well, which itself releases dopamine.
  • reducing stress and the resulting cortisol, which attacks the myelin sheath that coats neurons and thus impairs signal transmission, allows underlying abilities to reach their full potential.
  • that the more you use a circuit, the stronger it gets.
  • physical exercise
  • meditation
  • evealing the mechanisms of cognition.
  • but the number of rigorous, well-designed studies that will stand the test of time is much smaller,”
  • Greater cognitive capacity comes from having more neurons or synapses, higher levels of neurogenesis (the creation of new neurons, especially in the memory-forming hippocampus),
Lexy Martin

Seth's Blog: Ode: How to tell a great story - 0 views

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  • Great stories succeed because they are able to capture the imagination of large or important audiences.
  • A great story is true. Not necessarily because it’s factual, but because it’s consistent and authentic
  • Great stories make a promise.
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  • People don’t trust the beautiful women ordering vodka at the corner bar
  • Great stories don’t always need eight-page color brochures or a face-to-face meeting. Either you are ready to listen or you aren’t.
  • no marketer succeeds in telling a story unless he has earned the credibility to tell that story.
  • Great stories happen fast
  • Great stories are subtle
  • Great stories don’t appeal to logic
  • Great stories don’t contradict themselves
  • great stories agree with our world view.
  • Great stories are rarely aimed at everyone.
  • capture the imagination of large or important audiences.
  • bold and audacious.
  • People don’t trust the beautiful women ordering vodka at the corner bar
  • Either you are ready to listen or you aren’t.
  • the fewer details a marketer spells out, the more powerful the story becomes.
  • allowing people to draw their own conclusions is far more effective than announcing the punch line.
  • no marketer succeeds in telling a story unless he has earned the credibility to tell that story.
  • appeal to our senses.
  • med at everyone.
  • most effective stories match the world view of a tiny audience
  • audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were
  • agree with what the audience
  • agree with our world view.
    • Rebecca Lurie
      Rebecca Lurie on 29 Sep 13
       
      In the fashion world trying to find a new Fad and make it appealing to people. (great article for my essay) 
  • Great stories don’t contradict themselves
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 29 Sep 13
       
      This is probably what I struggle with most when I tell a story, and it always ruins it. 
  • Great stories are trusted
  • makes the members
  • of the audience feel smart and secure
  • Rebecca Lurie on 29 Sep 13
     
    This article relates to what my paper may be about.  I am interested in the business world.  
  • Lexy Martin on 30 Sep 13
     
    STORIES- what kind of great should they be
anonymous

How to Remember People's Names - Improve Your Memory with MindTools.com - 0 views

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  • Try to find an unusual feature
  • Create an association between that characteristic, the face, and the name in your mind.
  • ask for the person to repeat their name. Use the name yourself as often as possible
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  • Repetition and review help to confirm your memory.
  • The methods suggested for remembering names are fairly simple and obvious, but are usefu
  • If it is unusual,
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 29 Sep 13
       
      Corresponding a name to a unusual or weird fact is also a very good technique for remembering a name. 
Rebecca Lurie

You're Bored? That's So AWESOME. - StumbleUpon - 0 views

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    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 28 Sep 13
       
      This article is hilarious and true. If your bored, its only your fault. Theres always something to do you just need to go do it.
    • Rebecca Lurie
      Rebecca Lurie on 29 Sep 13
       
      I really enjoyed this article! It was so funny and enjoyable to read and watch. Now I know where to go if I ever get bored.  We all can get bored but we just have to find ways in order to keep us entertained.  
Brian Walsh

Texting, Driving and Mindfulness | 21st Century Spirituality | Big Think - 0 views

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  • save my Impreza,
    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 28 Sep 13
       
      What does this mean?
  • So I was shocked when moving to Los Angeles nearly two years ago to find how many times I’ve spotted people at lights and stop signs, head down, typing away, or worse, on the highway attempting a one-handed text. 
  • mindfulness meditation is making remarkable clinical strides.
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  • the list can include making coffee, breathing, going to the bathroom and walking.
  • Mindfulness is an important component of yoga asana classes.
  • he one ‘rule’ I have is that no one peers at their phones
  • Putting away the phone during a class is a valuable tool in helping overcome cell phone addiction
  • Funded by AT&T, the film looks into the lives of a handful of people who have either caused or been hurt by (or lost family to) accidents due to texting and driving—at this moment, 100,00 automobile accidents occur every year
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 29 Sep 13
       
      There currently are way to many car accidents every year to due a lack of concentration by the driver. So many innocent lives have been ended tragically early due to carelessness of other drivers on the road, it truly is very sad  
    • Darren Ferony
      Darren Ferony on 01 Oct 13
       
      This article is about the dangers of texting on a cell phone while driving and how it takes away from our mindfulness. Multitasking severely decreases our focus and is not a practice of mindfulness. The author explains how mindfulness is important as it allows us to focus on one task at a time. Our cell phone use is an addiction that spikes our dopamine levels through the satisfaction we get from every text or notification. This addiction causes us to not be mindful sometimes and even do something as stupid as text and drive just because we do not realize it or cannot help it.
  • Fortunately
anonymous

10 tips for time management in a multitasking world | Penelope Trunk Blog - 0 views

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  • keystrokes
    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 28 Sep 13
       
      What is a keystroke?
  • probably not answering incoming email while they’re doing it
    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 28 Sep 13
       
      That is kind of contradicting. You need to check your email to know what else to do. If you are slow you are not being productive. You are putting everything off.
  • message needs more thought, move it to your to-do list.
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  • your ability to handle information and manage your time.
  • Time management is one of those skills no one teaches you in school but you have to learn.
  • Take action on an email as soon as you read it.
  • multitasking is deadly. But it decreases everyone’s productivity,
  • practicing mindfulness as a way to break the multitasking habit.
  • spends an hour on the most important thing on her to-do list.
  • planning one’s work are also mission-critical tasks.” 
  • organize the night before
  • “People want a predictable response, not an immediate response.”
  • discover yours by monitoring your productivity over a period of time.
  • keep your best time free for your most important work.
  • break own my projects into chunks
  • actually responds to some things more slowly
  • much more likely to go back to it once you’ve gotten it started.
  • Each person has a best time
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 29 Sep 13
       
      If you work best at night, don't work in the morning, you won't be productive. I think this is a very important point. 
aldi gjoka

Why I love and hate having a smartphone - The Oatmeal - 0 views

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    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 28 Sep 13
       
      Some people are very gullible. They look up what they want to know the answer to and believe any answer they find first online
    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 28 Sep 13
       
      I think there are some ways you can work from home. But you shouldn't always do that. My aunt works from home answering phones for a company . I don't understand how you can answer the calls when your not even there.
    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 28 Sep 13
       
      My phone is the reason why i always go to sleep late!!
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    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 28 Sep 13
       
      This article is very true & very relatable 
    • aldi gjoka
      aldi gjoka on 07 Oct 13
       
      This is a great example of how far technology has come 
  • Rebecca Lurie on 02 Oct 13
     
    the technology keeps us linked.  Way for fashion buyers to see what people are looking for and what they want to buy in the fashion world
kurt stavenhagen

618 - Milk, the Drink of Conquerors | Strange Maps | Big Think - 0 views

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mindfulness maps

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  • kurt stavenhagen on 27 Sep 13
     
    fascinating map of how drinking milk affected people groups; a map display of this
Rebecca Lurie

To-Do Lists - Time Management Training from MindTools.com with FREE template! - 0 views

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To-do list

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  • prioritizing tasks, you plan the order in which you'll do them, so that you can tell what needs your immediate attention, and what you can leave until later.
  • To-Do Lists are essential if you're going to beat work overload.
  • allocating priorities from A (very important, or very urgent) to F (unimportant, or not at all urgent).
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  • imply work your way through it in order
  • in a sales-type role, a good way to motivate yourself is to keep your To-Do List relatively short, and aim to complete it every day.
  • Or, imagine you're in a sales role and have a long list of people who you need to talk to. You write out a list of everyone you need to call and every client you need to see, and start prioritizing.
Rebecca Lurie

Fashion Buyers Tap Business Smarts - WSJ.com - 0 views

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  • look for clothing, sometimes several seasons ahead of time, which will eventually be sold in stores.
  • spent doing retail analysis and communicating with store associates and managers about how to make smart purchasing decisions and minimize marked-down inventory.
  • spend long hours working while on business trips, though tacking on extras days to sightsee abroad
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  • learn about looks a year before they hit stores and have the power to bring those pieces to the sales floor,
  • build relationships with designers who can set their retail outlets apart.
  • specially stressful in this economy because people want to buy merchandise on sale."
  • Each level typically takes one or two years to climb. After five to seven years experience, buyers can become divisional merchandise managers, overseeing a group of buyers.
Matt Cassidy

Why Mindfulness is Needed For Education Innovation | Lee-Anne Gray Psy.D - 0 views

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  • Mindful awareness practices fulfill this need
  • education includes practices that train the mind to consciously and purposefully attend and regulate emotion, our students will be well prepared for anything
  • "the gap". It's the space between thoughts that is pure consciousness, pure silence, and pure peace
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  • we literally equip them with one of the most important tools for survival and success in the modern world
  • self-noticing at the root of empathy, it is perhaps, the most important social skill of the 21st century
  • By training attention and emotional regulation, we grow into kinder global citizens
  • Matt Cassidy on 30 Sep 13
     
    Why Mindfulness is Needed For Education Innovation
Tara Picudella

Gratefulness - 0 views

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    • Tara Picudella
      Tara Picudella on 29 Sep 13
       
      Music to me is a gift. Therefore being mindful allows me to accept music as a gift and appreciate everything that it has to offer.
Tara Picudella

Practising Day-to-Day, Informal Mindfulness - For Dummies - 0 views

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mindfulness music listening

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  • simply listen
  • gently guide your mindful attention back to the sounds of the music. Be aware of both the sounds and the silence between the sounds. Notice how all sounds arise and fall back into the ever-present silence.
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