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@predictswan BACKGROUND: It is said that 100 years back an average person used to have around 5000 thoughts per day...
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"Genius is nothing but a power of sustained attention, and the popular impression probably prevails that men of genius are remarkable for their voluntary powers in this direction." William James
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Daniel Durrant @ddrrnt & @mark57g Today ppl think like mad. Average is said to be "55,000 thoughts per day." 100 years ago, it used to be "5000". Via @PredictSwan
Have we lost the GENIUS of sustained attention?
Della Palacios @SensAbleLrning Are You Ready to Join the Slow Education Movement? via @plpnetwork cc @toughloveforx @counterpane @ddrrnt
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SLOW DATA FROM THE PERCEPTUAL EDGE for memory and learning." Excerpt from Jack Cheng, on the Slow Web into you. And timeliness, rhythm, and moderation are all essential knowledge. Information passes through you; knowledge dissolves Fast Web. Fast Web is about information. Slow Web is about what I consider the biggest difference between Slow Web and "Timeliness. Rhythm. Moderation. These things dovetail into
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poise. When our ambition shifts from becoming someone else — someone less confused, more enlightened or less stressed out — to being exactly who we are, we exercise an entirely different set of spiritual muscles. Rather than achieving, we are discovering; rather than accomplishing, we are recognizing; rather than mastering, we are expressing.
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Another source says (http://goo.gl/ NrhiWN): When we sit still for long periods of time, we shed our need for an ROI and instead seek to engage exactly who and what we are — to explore our experience honestly and to touch our lives directly — which requires courage, gentleness, and
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issue 1 Every free moment becomes an opportunity to get something done….These “wasted” moments are the ones in which we often unconsciously connect the dots. The space is what provokes cognitive flexibility on an unconscious level. American journalist, John Lehrer, similarly discusses the idea that solving wicked problems, the Eureka! moments, happen below consciousness; he explains how creative insight is a combination of idea incubation, tacit knowledge, relaxation, positive emotions, and de-focus attention. Scientists have argued that when we pay attention to the world, consciousness is focused, but when we are in a relaxed mode, attention is de-focused and goes inwards for more creative insight. Similarly, when tired, the brain is not able to sustain focused attention, and it is less efficient in remembering learned patters and connections between ideas and concepts—this state allows for more lateral, divergent, thinking. When less focused we are able to consider more information, random connections and diverse interpretations hence fostering innovation and creative insight. Researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands found that focused-attention meditation did not help creativity but open-monitoring meditation perform better in ideation. In order to approach problems creatively, the situations need to be reframed; creative thinking is about seeing the problem anew, unlearn what we belief as true, in order to retrieve different types of tacit knowledge from memory. This process of breaking learned patterns is known as cognitive flexibility—the ability to see situations in multiple ways. Nobel prize winner (2000), Eric Kandel, in his book The Age of Insight argues that, in order for creative insight to happen, the brain needs to integrate information unconsciously, at certain rates, in specific parts of the brain. Subsequently, the Aha! moment is the result of right/left brain consensus, when in a process of conscious and unconscious feedback loops—Winnicott’s inner (unconscious) and outer (conscious) space. EEG technology can be used to trace the moment of insight eight seconds before it happens, which has been found to be the moment when the brain reaches alpha waves. When in alpha waves, the attention goes inwards, allowing the person to access tacit knowledge stored in the long-term memory and retrieve collected content; when too focused, the attention goes outwards, and the mind concentrates too much on finding the correct solution to win an external reward, rather than exploring possibilities.
"Mindfulness is a tuning to what we already are, a freeing from the tyranny of shoulds, oughts, and wishes to be better, faster, and more efficient, which are endemic in workplace settings."
of benefit to others. As we train further in awareness and resilience, we might make choices that reflect a – perhaps newly discovered – inner alignment. This may mean we become more curious, creative, and centred in our existing work, or it might mean recognising an uncomfortable mismatch between our current career and a deeper calling, spurring a decision to shift
Excerpt from Ed Halliwell, a mindfulness teacher and writer:
DAN DURRANT Notice: As we get in touch with our experience through stillness and presence, we may become more aware of our relationship to work. We can start to see and feel clearly what drives us, and whether following these drivers result in satisfaction. We start to see the influence of the wider workplace culture, and notice whether it nurtures or depletes us, and is