The real world may not have druids and paladins, but it’s chock full of monsters. They’re called “term papers” and “errands” and “mysterious car problems.” [T]here may be one monster that looms larger than all of the others, who clearly needs to be attacked. But before you do, look around for injured monsters — the half-finished tasks that probably need only a few more minutes to complete. If you don’t deal with them now, they’ll be a constant distraction, and may eventually come back stronger.

Kill injured monsters first

In WoW parlance, “grinding” is the process of killing a bunch of fairly easy monsters, one after the other, strictly to rack up loot and experience. There’s no adventure to it...but it’s often the fastest way to level up.Daily life is full of mindless tedium, but there’s an important distinction: grinding has a point. While the task may be dull and carpal tunnel-aggravating, there’s a clear goal. You have to be willing to do serious grunt work in order to move ahead.

Grinding Is Part Of The Game

It’s easy to confuse what you’re doing with why you’re doing it. Grinding is a means of achieving a specific goal, whereas the game itself is supposed to be entertaining. So once you level, stop grinding and start exploring.I worked for a year as a reader, it was good money, but it was wearying. Most of the scripts were terrible. I convinced myself I was “working in the industry,” so I kept reading them.In place of reading, I got a mindless internship in production, I didn’t use my brain once. That left me with abundant energy when I got home from work, and with it I finished two scripts.

But grinding is not the game

My website is really just me running back to the newbie lands and giving away what I can. I could put my advice in a book and charge $15.95 for it, but I see it as the take-a-penny, leave-a-penny flow of information. I regularly search the web for answers on topics in which I’m a newbie and leaving thankful that someone out there took the time to write a tutorial on exactly what I needed. So in exchange, I write up what I know about screenwriting.If everyone took the time to build a site about the areas of their expertise, the world would be significantly cooler.

Give away stuff to newbies

<a href="http://davidco.com/">GTD </a>enthusiasts would label these WoW quests “projects,” and each of the bullet points “next actions.” Most of life’s work consists of a bunch of little activities in the service of a larger goal. You don’t write a script; you write a scene. You don’t design a website; you tweak the CSS so the navigation looks better. No matter what the project is, you can’t finish until you get started, and you can’t get started until you figure out the steps.

Keep track of your quests

one quickly learns the importance of storage: belts, bags, backpacks and chests. Unfortunately, there’s never nearly enough space, and adding more becomes ridiculously expensive. So always keep in mind the carrying costs.Unlike World of Warcraft (or hard drives in the 90’s), digital storage is now cheap. But while the cost of bit storage has plummeted, the cost of storing atoms is still huge. Last year, we cleaned out our garage. Whoever wanted something could email us and take it. They got a free desk, and we got a free garage.

Storage is costly

As you look back at any period of your life, you don’t remember what a solid plan you had. You remember what you did. You remember the adventures, the scrapes, the unanticipated detours that turned out to fascinating. So don’t plan your way out of an exciting life.

Overthinking takes the fun out of it

Those who’ve seen my movie, The Nines, can infer that I had a bit of a World of Warcraft problem back in the day. “The day” being a period of about four months in which most of my waking hours were spent either playing the game or wanting to. The luxury and danger of being […]

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Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what you need done and let them surprise you.

Ideas are easy to come up with. What is difficult is moving from an idea to reality. We need systems to keep us, and our teams focused on the goal. Systems are divided into three parts:<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">Setting inspiring and measurable goals.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Ensuring you and your team always make progress toward that desired goal.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Setting the cadence to ensure the group remembers what they are trying to do and hold each other accountable.</li></ol>

Ideas and systems

The first step to success is creating a mission statement. A good mission is short and inspirational. Try to make it remain valid for at least five years by making it broad. "We [improve life] in [market] by [value]." Then motivate people to get them to do their best work and meaningfully measure progress using the OKR system - Objectives and Key Results.

The path to success

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">We don't prioritise our goals. Setting a single objective with three key results can provide the necessary focus.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">We haven't communicated the goal persistently and comprehensively.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">We don't have a plan. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">We haven't made time for our goals. Committing a specific time to work towards the objective will ensure progress.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">We give up instead of iterate. Successful teams may get it wrong at first but then try again.</li></ul>

Why we can't get things done

To start with setting your OKRs, set a very high, single objective for a fixed time, such as a quarter. <ul><li class="ql-align-justify">An objective should be qualitative and inspirational and motivate people to work on the challenge.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Time-bound. It should be a clear sprint, not last too long.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Directly actionable by the team, not dependent on other teams.</li></ul>An example of a good objective: Launch an awesome MVP.

Setting objectives

The key results are tangible and quantitative. They are hard to achieve but not impossible. You generally will have three key results that are based on anything you can measure, such as growth, engagement, revenue, performance, quality.

Key Results

Create a weekly cycle. A Monday check-in is a conversation across the whole team that shows the group's OKRs. On Friday's, teams can celebrate their achievements. Each team should share something. The goal is to feel like a winning team.

Creating a cadence

How do you inspire a diverse team to work together, going all out in pursuit of a single, challenging goal? How do you get your team to commit to bold goals? How do you stay motivated despite setbacks and disappointments? And what do you do when it looks like you're headed for failure?In Radical Focus, Christina Wodtke combines her hard earned experience as an executive at Zynga, Linkedin and many of Silicon Valley's hottest companies to answer those questions. It's not about to-do lists and accountability charts. It's about creating a framework for regular check-ins, key results, and most of all, the beauty of a good fail - and how to take a temporary disaster and turn it into a future success.In this book, Wodtke takes you through the fictional case study of Hanna and Jack, who are struggling to survive in their own startup. They fight shiny object syndrome, losing focus, and dealing with communication issues. After hard lessons, they learn the practical steps they need to do what must be done.The second half of the book demonstrates how to use Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to help teams realize big goals in a methodical way, leaving nothing to chance. Laid out in a practical but compelling way, she makes the lessons of Hanna and Jack's story clear and actionable.Ready to move your team in the right direction? Read this, and learn the system of creating your focus - and finding success.

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This title is discounted because there is a second edition out 4/20/21! If you are startup, you may still find this one useful. "This book is useful, actionable, and actually fun to read! If you want to get your team aligned around real, measurable goals, Radical Focus will teach you how to do it quickly and clearly." - Laura Klein, Principal, Users Know An actionable business book in the form of a fable. Radical Focus tackles the OKR movement and better goal setting through the powerful story of Hanna and Jack's struggling tea startup. When the two receive an ultimatum from their only investor, they must learn how to employ Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with radical focus to get the right things done. Will they be able to accomplish the few critical actions that will save their startup? Or will they end up mired in distractions and choices as their time runs out? The author pulls from her experience with Silicon Valley's hottest companies to teach practical insights on goal setting in fable form. How do you inspire a diverse team to work together, going all out in pursuit of a single, challenging goal? How do you stay motivated despite setbacks and failures? As you see through Hanna and Jack's story, it's about creating a framework for regular check-ins, key results, and most of all, the beauty of a good fail. Wodtke adds a bonus section in the second half of the book to lay out her most practical insights into applying Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to your specific workplace and challenges. Ready to move your team in the right direction? Read this book together, and learn Wodtke's powerful system of decision making to create your focus and find success.

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Radical Focus

Half of life is lost in charming others. The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others. Leave this play, you have played enough.

From Madonna to Deepak Chopra, celebrities have been recording and embracing Rumi's poetry for the past two decades, creating a resurgence of interest in this 14th century Sufi mystic. Rumi's Little Book of Life is a beautiful collection of 196 poems by Rumi, previously unavailable in English. Translated by native Persian speakers, Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin, this collection will appeal to Rumi lovers everywhere. This collection of mystical poetry focuses on one of life's core issues: coming to grips with the inner life. During the course of life, each of us is engaged on an inner journey. Rumi's Little Book of Life is a guidebook for that journey. The poetry is a companion for those who consciously enter the inner world to explore the gardens within--out of the everyday "world of dust"--through an ascending hierarchy that restores one's soul to the heart; the heart of the spirit; and in finding spirit, transcending all.

From Madonna to Deepak Chopra, celebrities have been recording and embracing Rumi's poetry for the past two decades, creating a resurgence of interest in this 13th century Sufi mystic.Rumi's Little Book of Life is a beautiful collection of 196 poems by Rumi, previously unavailable in English. Translated by native Persian speakers, Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin, this collection will appeal to Rumi lovers everywhere.This collection of mystical poetry focuses on one of life's core issues: coming to grips with the inner life. During the course of life, each of us is engaged on an inner journey. Rumi's Little Book of Life is a guidebook for that journey. The poetry is a companion for those who consciously enter the inner world to explore the gardens within--out of the everyday "world of dust"--through an ascending hierarchy that restores one's soul to the heart; the heart of the spirit; and in finding spirit, transcending all.

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, also known as Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī, Mevlânâ/Mawlānā and Mevlevî/Mawlawī, but more popularly known simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran.

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Rumi's Little Book of Life

Emotional repression in most cases is expressed as nicenessIn people with a weak sense of self, there is often un unhealthy fusion with others.

Emotional Repression vs Niceness

What we want and demand from the world needs to conform to our present needs not to unconscious, unsatisfied needs from childhood.

Emotional competence 

Artistic expression by itself is only a form of acting out emotions, not a way of working them through.

Art as therapy 

If the expression of anger is harmful and so is its repression, how do we hope to attaint health and healing?<ul><li>in the repression the problem is a lack of release</li><li>in the release the problem is with unregulated and exaggerated venting</li></ul>Both repression and rage represents a fear of the genuine experience of anger.

Repression of Anger

...is an empowerment and a relaxation....is physiologic experience without acting outWhen healthy anger is starting to be experienced, you don't see anything dramatic. What you do see is a decrease of all muscle tension.

Healthy Anger

Most of people will describe anxiety: tightening of the voice, shallow breathing, muscle tension - signs of anxiety not rage. Anger triggers anxiety because it coexist with positive feelings, with love and the desire for contact. Anger leads to an attacking energy, it threatens attachment.  Aggressive impulses are suppressed because of guilt, and the guilt exist only because of the simultaneous existence of love, of positive feelings.Anger doesn't exist in a vacuum by itself: is incredibly anxiety-provoking and guilt-producing for a person to experience aggressive feelings toward a loved one.

Rage - What do people really experience when they experience it?

The acting-out, the yelling, the screaming and even the hitting serves as a defence against the experience of the anger.  So, we repress the anger. Repression and discharge are two sides of the same coin.

The defence against experience Anger 

Anger is the energy Mother Nature gives us as little kids to stand forward on our own behalf and say I matter.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

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Trauma: The Journey to Healing

It offers new perspectives to see the necessity of anger, and how to deal with Trauma . 

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this accessible and groundbreaking book -- filled with the moving stories of real people -- medical doctor and bestselling author of Scattered Minds, Gabor Maté, shows that emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness. Western medicine achieves spectacular triumphs when dealing with acute conditions such as fractured bones or life-threatening infections. It is less successful against ailments not susceptible to the quick ministrations of scalpel, antibiotic or miracle drug. Trained to consider mind and body separately, physicians are often helpless in arresting the advance of most of the chronic diseases, such as breast cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, and even Alzheimer’s disease. Gabor Maté has found that in all of these chronic conditions, there is a common thread: people afflicted by these diseases have led lives of excessive stress, often invisible to the individuals themselves. From an early age, many of us develop a psychological coping style that keeps us out of touch with the signs of stress. So-called negative emotions, particularly anger, are suppressed. Dr. Maté writes with great conviction that knowledge of how stress and disease are connected is essential to prevent illness in the first place, or to facilitate healing. When the Body Says No is an impressive contribution to current research on the physiological connection between life’s stresses and emotions and the body systems governing nerves, immune apparatus and hormones. With great compassion and erudition, Gabor Maté demystifies medical science and, as he did in Scattered Minds, invites us all to be our own health advocates. Excerpt from When the Body Says No “Only an intellectual luddite would deny the enormous benefits that have accrued to humankind from the scrupulous application of scientific methods. But not all aspects of illness can be reduced to facts verified by double-blind studies and by the strictest scientific techniques. We confine ourselves to a narrow realm indeed if we exclude from accepted knowledge the contributions of human experience and insight. . . . “In 1892 William Osler, one of the greatest physicians of all time, suspected rheumatoid arthritis to be a stress-related disorder. Today rheumatology all but ignores that wisdom, despite the supporting scientific evidence that has accumulated in the 110 years since Osler first published his text. That is where the narrow scientific approach has brought the practice of medicine. Elevating modern science to be the final arbiter of our sufferings, we have been too eager to discard the insights of previous ages.”

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this accessible and groundbreaking book -- filled with the moving stories of real people -- medical doctor and bestselling author of Scattered Minds, Gabor Maté, shows that emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness. Western medicine achieves spectacular triumphs when dealing with acute conditions such as fractured bones or life-threatening infections. It is less successful against ailments not susceptible to the quick ministrations of scalpel, antibiotic or miracle drug. Trained to consider mind and body separately, physicians are often helpless in arresting the advance of most of the chronic diseases, such as breast cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, and even Alzheimer’s disease. Gabor Maté has found that in all of these chronic conditions, there is a common thread: people afflicted by these diseases have led lives of excessive stress, often invisible to the individuals themselves. From an early age, many of us develop a psychological coping style that keeps us out of touch with the signs of stress. So-called negative emotions, particularly anger, are suppressed. Dr. Maté writes with great conviction that knowledge of how stress and disease are connected is essential to prevent illness in the first place, or to facilitate healing. When the Body Says No is an impressive contribution to current research on the physiological connection between life’s stresses and emotions and the body systems governing nerves, immune apparatus and hormones. With great compassion and erudition, Gabor Maté demystifies medical science and, as he did in Scattered Minds, invites us all to be our own health advocates. Excerpt from When the Body Says No “Only an intellectual luddite would deny the enormous benefits that have accrued to humankind from the scrupulous application of scientific methods. But not all aspects of illness can be reduced to facts verified by double-blind studies and by the strictest scientific techniques. We confine ourselves to a narrow realm indeed if we exclude from accepted knowledge the contributions of human experience and insight. . . . “In 1892 William Osler, one of the greatest physicians of all time, suspected rheumatoid arthritis to be a stress-related disorder. Today rheumatology all but ignores that wisdom, despite the supporting scientific evidence that has accumulated in the 110 years since Osler first published his text. That is where the narrow scientific approach has brought the practice of medicine. Elevating modern science to be the final arbiter of our sufferings, we have been too eager to discard the insights of previous ages.”

Gabor Maté, MD

When the Body Says No

Scientist and statistician Simon Ramo wrote a fascinating little book that few people have ever bothered to read: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0517529874/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=farnamstreet-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0517529874&linkId=5d001e59d72ddbfa00cbc7d6fdfb898c">Extraordinary Tennis Ordinary Players</a>. The book isn't about tennis: it is about the crucial difference between the Winner’s Game and a Loser’s Game.

Extraordinary Tennis, Ordinary Players

Ramo believed that tennis could be subdivided into two games: <a href="https://fs.blog/amateurs-professionals/">the professionals and the rest of us</a>. The game looks the same from the outside. After all, players play by the same rules and scoring. And they play on the same court. Sometimes they even share the same equipment. In short, the essential elements of the game are the same.Sometimes amateurs believe they are professionals, but professionals never believe they are amateurs. Professionals know they are not playing the same game as amateurs.

The Difference Between Professionals And Amateurs

Professionals win points whereas amateurs lose them.In a professional game, each player, nearly equal in skill, plays a nearly perfect game rallying back and forth until one player hits the ball just beyond the reach of his opponent. This is about positioning, control, spin. It’s a game of inches and sometimes centimeters. This is not how amateurs play.

Winning Points vs Losing Points

In his 1975 essay, <a href="https://www.ifa.com/pdfs/ellis_charles_the_losers_game_1975.pdf">The Loser’s Game</a>, Charles Ellis calls professional tennis a “Winner’s Game.” While there is some degree of skill and luck involved, the game is generally determined by the actions of the winner.

A Winner’s Game

Amateur tennis is an entirely different game. Not in how it is played or the rules but, rather, in how it’s won. Long and powerful rallies are generally a thing of the past. Mistakes are frequent. Balls are constantly hit into nets or out of bounds. Double faults are nearly as common as faults.The amateur duffer seldom beats his opponent, but he beats himself all the time. The victor in this game of tennis gets a higher score than the opponent, but he gets that higher score because his opponent is losing even more points.

A Loser’s Game

In expert tennis, about 80% of the points are won; in amateur tennis, about 80% of the points are lost. In other words, professional tennis is a Winner’s Game – the final outcome is determined by the activities of the winner – and amateur tennis is a Loser’s Game – the final outcome is determined by the activities of the loser. The two games are, in their fundamental characteristic, not at all the same. They are opposites.

The Two Games Look The Same - In Fact, They Are Different

After discovering that there are, in effect, two different games and realizing that a generic strategy will not work for both games, Ramo devised a clever strategy by which ordinary players can win by losing less and letting the opponent defeat themselves.If you choose to win at tennis – as opposed to having a good time – the strategy for winning is to avoid mistakes. The way to avoid mistakes is to be conservative and keep the ball in play, letting the other fellow have plenty of room in which to blunder his way to defeat, because he, being an amateur will play a losing game and not know it.

Avoid Stupidity, Don’t Seek Brilliance

Buffett used to convene a group of people called the “Buffett Group.” At one such meeting Benjamin Graham, Buffett’s mentor, gave them all a quiz. “It was a true-false quiz,” Buffett said. “And there were all these guys who were very smart. He told us ahead of time that half were true and half were false. There were 20 questions. Most of us got less than 10 right. If we’d marked every one true or every one false, we would have gotten 10 right.”Graham made up the deceptively simple historical puzzler himself. “It was to illustrate a point, that the smart fellow kind of rigs the game”.

The Smart Fellow Rigs The Game

The point is that most of us are amateurs but we refuse to believe it.This is a problem because we’re often playing the game of the professionals. What we should do in this case, when we’re the amateur, is to <a href="https://fs.blog/inversion/">invert the problem</a>. Rather than trying to win, we should avoid losing.

Avoid Losing, Don’t Try To Win

This above was a point <a href="https://fs.blog/charlie-munger/">Charlie Munger</a>, the billionaire business partner of Warren Buffett made a long time ago.In a letter to Wesco Shareholders, where he was at the time Chairman, Munger writes:“Wesco continues to try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric… It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. There must be some wisdom in the folk saying, ‘It’s the strong swimmers who drown.’”

The Long-Term Advantage Of Trying To Be Not Stupid

When it comes to unlocking great outcomes, avoiding stupidity is more reliable than seeking brilliance.

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Avoiding Stupidity is Easier than Seeking Brilliance

What is an addiction? The addiction is something that you have no longer control over it. That means you are being controlled by it. Now, before I begin I want you to know one thing that I’m not an expert on this field. I’m sharing this knowledge through my experiences only. And how I win over my bad habits.

Number 1 (Trigger) It is when the habit comes to your mind as a picture or through seeing an object. Number 2 (Process) the habit begin to take the shape. Number 3 (Conclusion) this is where your dopamine (a chemical substance is released in your brain and you feel good) after doing the habits.

So, the addiction goes through three stages that are: -  

Let’s take the example of tea. Let’s say you take tea four to six cups of tea in a day. And the doctor has warned you not to take too much tea anymore. Your sugar level has increased. But, still, you could not able to stop it.

The first thing you have to do is – try to understand or know the origin of the habit. Like when do you feel like taking a cup of tea? Maybe it could be when you are alone, when you get angry, depressed or when you go to the kitchen or it could when you hang out with your friends.

Second step: Try to divert the thoughts (Here what I mean by that – Let’s say you're suddenly feeling like you’ve to take tea but you don’t want to take because it is harming your health. During this time, try to divert the mind towards game/ crosswords/ Music during this period.

Third Step: As you overcome it, give yourself a reward. Eat the food that you love. Celebrate it, like you celebrate when you passed an exam with flying colors.

Fourth Step: (Affirmation) Say to yourself –‘Yes, I can get rid of any bad habit’ –Yes –I can overcome it. Do it four to five times or more before you wake up from the bed and before you go to bed.

In this article , I talked about on how to get rid of old habits and replace it with the new one.

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Organized people are not born; they are built.The people who emerge as ‘organized’ use a variety of tools and methods to accomplish their goals and priorities in life.

ORGANIZED PEOPLE: SIMPLE BEHAVIOURS 

Organized people are not born; they are built.The people who emerge as ‘organized’ use a variety of tools and methods to accomplish their goals and priorities in life.

Organized people are not born; they are built. The people who emerge as ‘organized’ use a variety of tools and methods to accomplish their goals and priorities in life. Their systems become habits…

ORGANIZED PEOPLE: SIMPLE BEHAVIOURS

If we are trying to maximise the welfare of our society is by maximising our freedom, and the only way to do so, is by maximising our choices

Today's Official Dogma

<ul><li>Everywhere we look, life is a matter of choice</li><li>The more options there are the easier it is to regret about anything an option has</li><li>When you have a lot of choices, your expectations rise towards perfection</li><li>The secret to happiness is low expectations</li><li>When there are no choices to make, if something goes wrong the responsible is the world. Whereas, when there are lots of choices to make, you are the responsible.   </li><li>Better choice is not better than some choice</li><li>Too much freedom becomes paralysis    </li></ul>

Key Insights

<ol><li>Regret and anticipated regret</li><li>Opportunity costs</li><li>Escalation of expectations</li><li>Self blame    </li></ol>

Why Choice Makes People Miserable

<ul><li>It produces paralysis and not liberation</li><li>Even if we manage to make a choice, we end up less satisfied with what we chose    </li></ul>

Negative Effects of Choice

It helped me understand the boundaries of freedom

http://www.ted.com Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.  TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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http://www.ted.com Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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The paradox of choice | Barry Schwartz

When we were Children, we have urged to gain some new useful knowledge everyday. We always learn something new from our father and mother. From mother, we learn how to fold the clothes, how to cut the vegetables. From father how to wash your cycle,etc. We have participated the tests at school, participate in extra-curricular activities, and joined gatherings during our school years.But then the phase come of Teenage or Adult. When we are doing job, we have routine of 9-5 timing for job and we didn't create space or time for learning new things. Always we should keep learning new things.

Learn Something New Everyday

Learning can be broken down into small-term and long-term learning. Your brain can in any case get advantage from learning new things, learning the small bits of information consistently empower your brain.1. Read <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://dailyinfographic.com/&ved=2ahUKEwjDgqb734z0AhX58LsIHSEUASQQFnoECAUQAg&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw3zN-c2b8W8Lt2cRhXqXD2G">Daily Infographic</a>People process visuals rapidly: It takes under 1/10 of a second for your mind to get a feeling of a visual. Retaining new data utilizing infographics is a speedy and simple way of learning. Visual learning diminishes perception time, yet stays close by longer in our memory. On <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://dailyinfographic.com/&ved=2ahUKEwjDgqb734z0AhX58LsIHSEUASQQFnoECAUQAg&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw3zN-c2b8W8Lt2cRhXqXD2G">Daily Infographic</a> you can go through 15 minutes of the session on a topic of your choice.

Let's discuss the 4 ways of learning new things:

Created by Scientists and Game developers,<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.lumosity.com/en/&ved=2ahUKEwj0y9WR4Iz0AhUFzqQKHbK_B0cQFnoECAQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0kIATMyZEB3jEoUt394Xsi">Lumosity</a> has an incredible assortment of intellectual games you can play. You probably won't get familiar with a substantial reality,yet your brain will be tested and develop! It's good to play the games which enhance your memory power3. Watch <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details%3Fid%3Dcom.ted.android%26hl%3Den%26gl%3DUS%26auao%3Dnone%26referrer%3Dutm_source%253Dgoogle%2526utm_medium%253Dorganic%2526utm_term%253Dted%2Bed%26pcampaignid%3DAPPU_1_6C6LYdD1MKbikgWSuKrQAw&ved=2ahUKEwjQiZ-k4Iz0AhUmsaQKHRKcCjoQ5YQBegQINhAC&usg=AOvVaw1hvF2GpuJk-h1z1DsxEkQW">Ted ED</a>Ted Talks are renowned for bringing a huge amounts of subjects by inventive scholars.<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details%3Fid%3Dcom.ted.android%26hl%3Den%26gl%3DUS%26auao%3Dnone%26referrer%3Dutm_source%253Dgoogle%2526utm_medium%253Dorganic%2526utm_term%253Dted%2Bed%26pcampaignid%3DAPPU_1_6C6LYdD1MKbikgWSuKrQAw&ved=2ahUKEwjQiZ-k4Iz0AhUmsaQKHRKcCjoQ5YQBegQINhAC&usg=AOvVaw1hvF2GpuJk-h1z1DsxEkQW">Ted Ed </a>makes learning a stride further with drawing in video lessons. Points range from "the logical way of seeing the world" to"how tax evasion works".You should try it once if you have determination and curiosity to learn

2. Train your Brain at Lumosity

<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.curiositydaily.com/&ved=2ahUKEwjosZvj4Iz0AhUCDewKHZp9BmIQFnoECAMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0Vz4XsF6I2Jnaqs9yw-WVl">Curiosity</a> is a site which inspires individuals to get more smarter. They do it by tracking down the most fascinating news on an assortment of topics. Simply click what subject you are keen on finding out about, which you want to learn and you'll get fascinating articles and videos.If you like to read the Educational Blog for tips and tricks, read it on <a href="http://bioeducation1.blogspot.com/">bioeducation1.blogspot.com</a>.

4. Follow curiosity

By learning new things, you increase sharpness of your mind. When you went party, you have a topic to talk with others. The more you know, the more likely to find something common in between you and him. You gain self-confidence and self-esteem by mastering knowledge and skills. If you will practice more, you will learn easier and faster.You can earn more money by learning new technical and soft skills to advance your career. As you get to know,why learning new thing is more important in your life.Keep learning, grow in your career.To be consistent,tell yourself "I want to learn something New"

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