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12/18/2010
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11/23/2010
Six Keys to Being Excellent
Just what I've been looking for!
http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2010/08/six-keys-to-being-excellent-at.html
Here, then, are the six keys to achieving excellence we've found are most effective for our clients:
- Pursue what you love. Passion is an incredible motivator. It fuels focus, resilience, and perseverance.
- Do the hardest work first. We all move instinctively toward pleasure and away from pain. Most great performers, Ericsson and others have found, delay gratification and take on the difficult work of practice in the mornings, before they do anything else. That's when most of us have the most energy and the fewest distractions.
- Practice intensely, without interruption for short periods of no longer than 90 minutes and then take a break. Ninety minutes appears to be the maximum amount of time that we can bring the highest level of focus to any given activity. The evidence is equally strong that great performers practice no more than 4 ½ hours a day.
- Seek expert feedback, in intermittent doses. The simpler and more precise the feedback, the more equipped you are to make adjustments. Too much feedback, too continuously, however, can create cognitive overload, increase anxiety, and interfere with learning.
- Take regular renewal breaks. Relaxing after intense effort not only provides an opportunity to rejuvenate, but also to metabolize and embed learning. It's also during rest that the right hemisphere becomes more dominant, which can lead to creative breakthroughs.
- Ritualize practice. Will and discipline are wildly overrated. As the researcher Roy Baumeister has found, none of us have very much of it. The best way to insure you'll take on difficult tasks is to ritualize them — build specific, inviolable times at which you do them, so that over time you do them without having to squander energy thinking about them.
http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2010/08/six-keys-to-being-excellent-at.html
11/22/2010
Mondo Zen and Higher States of Consciousness
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11/12/2010
11/10/2010
Change of pace for the blog
I've decided I'm going to make this blog into something. Basically a place for everything interesting I find upon my life journey. Here's some new sounds I've been digging lately to start you off:
Pretty Lights - Finally Moving Remix
Evenings - Friend [Lover]
Video by Krysta Sa
Four Tet - Angel Echoes
Bullion - Get Familiar
Salem - Sick
DubFX - Made (Live)
Kid CuDi - Heart of a Lion
Louis C.K. - Why?
Amazing comedian
RJD2 - Deadringer
Pretty Lights - Finally Moving Remix
Evenings - Friend [Lover]
Video by Krysta Sa
Four Tet - Angel Echoes
Bullion - Get Familiar
Salem - Sick
DubFX - Made (Live)
Kid CuDi - Heart of a Lion
Louis C.K. - Why?
Amazing comedian
RJD2 - Deadringer
2/14/2010
Google has quickly become a household term due to it's minimalist webpage and extremely fast servers which allow anyone with high-speed internet access to get the answer to nearly any question they can think of in a matter of seconds. Now with it's further development into software and mobile technology they are quickly taking over the internet-technology market. I personally love Google and all they are doing to evolve social communication and information availability/transfer and their adherence to open source. The fact that I can sit at my computer and look at images of the stars, moon, mars and our home earth absolutely blows my mind beyond recognition. Here are some things related to Google that I like and would like to share with others:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
http://www.blackle.com/
http://autocompleteme.com/
http://lmgtfy.com/
http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/
http://books.google.com/
http://www.google.com/mars/
http://www.google.com/moon/
http://www.google.com/sky/
Where's Waldo on Google Maps
Giving respect
The internet is for sharing. Sharing information, ideas, thoughts, feelings, emotions, music, images, video, sounds, memories, experience, history, entertainment, help, opportunity, and most of all DATA. I know that my own personal life would not be what it is today if it were not for computers and the internet. I have memories of being a young child on the internet when it first started. My high school focus was computer networking and I was studying toward getting CCNA certified. I then abandoned the idea and began doing graphic design and tried to start a business doing so. I've made and ran several webpages in the past and I now work in Internet technical support. The internet is a huge part of my life and I can't think of my existence without it. I think the internet is a place of opportunity and freedom that will hopefully affect our thought and processes of governing others into a way that is open source and equal.
I wanted to start my blog with information contingent upon its - and my own - existence.
I wanted to start my blog with information contingent upon its - and my own - existence.
Educate yourself on what you love!
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