Learn more about books with this collection
Basic survival skills
How to prioritize needs in survival situations
How to adapt to extreme situations
This distinction becomes very important when we realize that attention is not unlimited, and when you go beyond the budget you have, you will fail. This is why you can only do multiple things at once when they are relatively easy and undemanding tasks, such as speaking to a passenger while driving on an empty road. However, you would not attempt to have a conversation while making a turn onto a busy road as you need to focus your attention on driving.
12
305 reads
MORE IDEAS ON THIS
The Characters Of The Story
There are two types of thinking, one is fast and the other is slow. Each type of thinking is its own system with individual abilities, limitations, and functions. The main difference between the two is that fast thinking requires little to no effort to operate, whereas a conscious effort is neces...
16
346 reads
Learn to identify if someone is interested.
1. Learn what dilated pupils mean. When your pupils are dilated, it means that you have focused your attention on something and find it interesting; maybe you are looking at an attractive person or even trying to solve a difficult math problem.
2. Learn what constri...
14
257 reads
While your two types of thinking often split the labor between themselves well, they can clash when an automatic reaction (fast thinking) comes into conflict with an intention to control it (slow thinking). A universal example of this is trying not to stare at an oddly dressed couple in the same ...
13
253 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
Related collections
Other curated ideas on this topic:
How awkward people can adjust
Awkward people can learn to feel more at ease in social situations.
- Showing a real interest in what others say will send a message that you are invested in their well-being. Awkward people can learn to stop talking and instead ask questions to further the conversation.
- Awkwa...
Self-Consciousness In Awkward Situations
- Being nervous and anxious makes us turn our attention inward, thus becoming extremely self-conscious of what we say and how we appear.
- Social anxiety also makes us become increasingly nervous when we notice the subtle audience reactions or the body language...
Don’t become a distraction
Be very aware of the power you have over your virtual and physical environments:
- Stay on mute every time you are not speaking and unmute yourself only when you do speak.
- Turn off your camera when you’re doing something visually distracting.
- If you work with your ki...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates