Learn more about communication with this collection
How to adapt to different speaking situations
How to engage with an audience
How to use body language effectively
Four attitudinal culprits work against taking time to pause.
Four “time thieves” lead people to overload themselves – The thieves have a positive side, but they create dysfunction when taken to extremes:
- Drive transforms into overdrive – The push to do more can cause people to load themselves with work beyond their capacity.
- Commitment to excellence turns into perfectionism –
- The pursuit of information becomes overload –
- Dedication to activity turns into frenzy – The need to feel busy occurs when people conflate activity with productivity.
“There are some thoughts you just can’t have while hustling down a hallway.”
16
181 reads
MORE IDEAS ON THIS
Pauses can benefit performance by allowing for cognitive recovery.
“Charles Darwin and Charles Dickens both worked four to five hours a day and on that schedule wrote 19 and 21 books, respectively.”
15
194 reads
People need to take strategic pauses because overload has become prevalent.
“We need permission to pause – and to do so during business hours, not on our own time like a public school teacher going broke to buy their own clay and markers.”
3mind-sets drive toward constant busyness:
“Insatiability” – People never feel they’ve done enough – .
“C...
16
194 reads
A Minute to Think
- A strategic pause means taking a moment – or longer – to think, plan, create or just breathe.
- People need to take strategic pauses because overload has become prevalent.
- Pauses can benefit performance by allowing for cognitive recovery.
- Four attitudinal culprits work ...
16
368 reads
A strategic pause means taking a moment – or longer – to think, plan, create or just breathe.
“If only activity and productivity were the same – but they are not.”
14
251 reads
A Minute to Think (cont'd)
- To apply white space thinking to digital messaging, reduce the number of times you check your email, the amount you send, and improve your composition skills.
- Applying strategic pauses to communications can benefit teams.
- To improve meetings, do less inviting and accepting, a...
15
246 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
Reclaim Creativity, Conquer Busyness, and Do Your Best Work
“
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