In this book, Dr. Amen explains how brain imaging technology can affect our health and wellness, along with the principles of brain health and different brain systems.

Brain imaging technology, SPECT or Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, enables us to understand blood flow and activity patterns in the brain. This information is associated with various mental health conditions. According to Dr. Amen, this imaging brain will enable targeted treatments that could make a difference.

How brain imaging can changes everything

Dr. Amen lives with 12 brain-health principles, and this 4 is a standout. <ul><li>First: The brain is malleable, which eases cognitive function.</li><li>Second: It’s involved in everything we do and central to our overall health. </li><li>Third: It’s self-directed, meaning it has a degree of control over its function. </li><li>Fourth: It can bounce back from injuries or diseases with proper intervention.</li></ul>

Key formulas for brain health 

This four circles approach to brain health will boost the performance holistically, through biological health, mental health, social connections, and spiritual fulfillment.<ul><li>Optimal exercise, nutrition, and sleep will improve your brain power.</li><li>15.000 steps daily will improve blood flow, reduce inflammation, and stimulate new brain cells.</li><li>A healthy diet and good sleep can add to your glow.</li></ul>

From the psychological circle, we need to see stress management, cognitive stimulation, and mental health support. Social circle, like building and maintaining strong connection, is crucial for brain health. From a spiritual circle, it involves having a purpose and meaning in life. So, every time you meditate, pray, or do some good deeds, it supports your brain health.

There are three main brain systems: the limbic, the basal ganglia, and the prefrontal cortex.<ul><li>The Limbic is responsible for emotional responses. When w experience fear or pleasure, the hippocampus and amygdala activate our emotional experience.</li><li>The basal ganglia are responsible to learn new skills and how we can move. This system helps us develop the muscle memory necessary to perform the task automatically later.</li></ul>

Know your brain

<ul><li>The prefrontal cortex is the CEO of all brain functions. This part governs higher-order cognitive functions like decision-making, problem-solving, and planning. Our cognitive abilities decline when the prefrontal cortex is exposed to stress and aging.</li><li>There’s also the anterior cingulate gyrus and the temporal lobes. One part keeps you adaptable, while the other rules your long-term memories, language, and social cues. With ACG imbalance, obsessive thoughts can emerge and wreak havoc on your peace of mind. Meanwhile, unbalanced temporal lobes can lead to emotional instability.</li></ul>

Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, andintelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are

The right diet can improve brain performance while striving for overall cognitive balance. Wonder why the right healthy diet is so important for brain health? It’s because of the unbreakable connection between the gut and the brain. Also, pay attention to any injuries you have ever had.

Hack your brainpower

Have you admired someone else’s success and wished you had their brains? This “brain envy” is the idea that we can aspire to brain health and work toward achieving it for ourselves.

Brain Envy: Good fuel

Eating better, developing more coordination-based exercises, making hobbies out of mind-stimulating, and enjoying positive and meaningful social connections are all among the important steps to increase your brain health.

Highly important note

How brains work still remains a mystery. That small size in our body can produce beautiful architecture and even explain the mystery of our galaxy. That’s why we need to take care of our brain health. 

BRAIN PRESCRIPTIONS THAT REALLY WORK In this breakthrough bestseller, you'll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. You're not stuck with the brain you're born with. Here are just a few of neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen's surprising--and effective--"brain prescriptions" that can help heal your brain and change your life: To Quell Anxiety and Panic: ¸  Use simple breathing techniques to immediately calm inner turmoil To Fight Depression: ¸  Learn how to kill ANTs (automatic negative thoughts) To Curb Anger: ¸  Follow the Amen anti-anger diet and learn the nutrients that calm rage To Conquer Impulsiveness and Learn to Focus: ¸  Develop total focus with the "One-Page Miracle" To Stop Obsessive Worrying: ¸  Follow the "get unstuck" writing exercise and learn other problem-solving exercises

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Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

For more than a decade, the Asian tech ecosystem has been dominated by “super-apps:” platforms such as WeChat, Alipay, and Meituan that offer an enormous network of services all in one integrated app. In contrast, analogous services in the U.S. have remained largely distributed, with a larger array of apps and websites each offering users a smaller subset of functionalities.

Super-apps are single applications that offer multiple diversified services for everyday personal or commercial life, rely on a common financial transaction platform, leverage intra-app data to tailor offerings, and are widely adopted.  For example: WeChat, Alipay, and Meituan in China; PayTM and Tata Neu in India; GoTo GoJek in Indonesia; and Zalo in Vietnam

Super Apps in Asia 

According to an article on HBR, super-apps have been successful in Asia due to the fact that many Asian consumers' first experience with the internet was with mobile platforms that were designed as super-app ecosystems from the ground up. This allowed early tech players to quickly grow their user bases as they incrementally added new services spanning a wide range of everyday needs.

So, why do super apps popular in Asia? 

In the U.S., many leading tech companies started out before the widespread adoption of smartphones, offering narrow, web-only services on personal computers, such as search (Google), social media (Facebook), e-commerce (Amazon), and others. These companies later developed mobile apps, but each still offered only limited services on each app.

Then, what happened in the US? 

Super-apps have not found success in the American market due to a number of factors, including different growth paths and market positions, regulatory, technological, and cultural contexts, and organizational and financial reasons.The tech leader is also afraid of feature bloat, which occurs when too many features are added to an app, causing it to slow down and become less engaging for users. This can also lead to some functions being seen as "second class" in consumers' minds.

What would be the challenge for US to implement this idea? 

A <a href="https://www.pymnts.com/connectedeconomy/2022/the-data-point-72-percent-consumers-interested-super-apps/">2022 consumer survey</a> found that 72% of U.S. respondents would be interested in using a super-app.Recent trends suggest that US companies may be moving towards more integrated apps, with Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg expressing interest in creating "everything apps."

So, is there any possibility for US the have this "Super Apps?" 

Super apps are top-rated in Asia, while it's not very common in the US. What happened? Let's find out through the HBR article. 

Over the last decade, super-apps like WeChat, Alipay, and LINE have taken Asian markets by storm. Could similar platforms soon be coming to the U.S.? Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and other Western tech leaders have vocally shared aspirations of creating a “WeChat equivalent” — but while it’s possible that the U.S. will develop some form of super-app, it’ll likely be more super-ish than truly super. In this piece, the authors outline several key factors that have kept super-apps from taking off in the U.S., as well as recent trends that may lead some form of super-app (or rather, a super-ish app) to emerge in the American market.

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Are Super-Apps Coming to the U.S. Market?

Quick questions: How many times did you pick up your phone today? Or how many times did you get distracted while doing something?

The digital world instructs our attention like no other human invention before. The consequence changed the way we live, work, and think. Gloria has studied people’s relationships with digital technology as long as it existed. Here’s what the research found: In 2004, on average. Workplace employees spend about 3 minutes on a task before switching to another. On the computer, they switch from one website to another every 2,5 minutes. In 2021, people hit attention every 47 seconds. Most people do this because of boredom.

Declining Attention Spans in The Digital Age

Once people get interrupted, it takes 25 minutes to get back to their original task. Our brains are good at dealing with multitasking & attention-shifting. However, if we do this every time, it takes a bit of our mental energy, and it leads to exhausted and stressed feelings.

What is attention? ﻿Psychologists define it as the ability to process certain things in our environments while excluding others consciously. The attention system consists of various networks that sustain different tasks.

The rhythms of attention

There are four types of attention based on how engaged and challenged we are by the objects of our attention. <ul><li>Focus: Highly engaged and highly challenged</li><li>Rote state: Highly engaged but not all challenged.</li><li>Bored state: Not engaged and not challenged</li><li>Frustrated: Not engaged but highly challenged</li></ul>

Every attentional state has its purpose and value. To achieve more, you don’t have to push yourself to be focused all the time; playing candy crus is also good for you. For most people, the highest focus is at 11 am and again at 3 pm—the boredom peaks shortly after lunch. We need to learn to flow with our natural rhythms of attention.

When people are frequently interrupted by such distractions, they report more frustration, pressure, and stress. The surprising fact is that people interrupt themselves almost as often as they are interrupted by outside forces. Researchers found that people switch their attention 44% of the time without any visual trigger. The more we are interrupted from the outside, the more we start interrupting ourselves. In contrast, the interruption can also benefit us. It gives our mind a little break from our hard work, causes lingering emotions, and uses cognitive resources.

The hidden costs of distraction and multitasking

“This means there might be some truth to the old trope that women are better at multitasking. But don’t fool yourself: the percentage of supertaskers who can multitask without sacrificing mood and performance points is tiny. “ Multitasking takes a lot of resources. However, straining to resist distractions can use up resources. Self-control is a skill that is needed at this moment. Self-control is like a muscle; using it too often eventually becomes too weak to function.

The internet is everywhere today. The network structure perfectly mimics the structure of our minds. The curiosity by following associative connections, much as we do when mind-wandering on our own. Companies use algorithms to collect data about themselves to predict what links will get us to click. Social media companies also have an interest in keeping us scrolling, Such fast-paced video content has been shown to increase our heart rates and drain our cognitive resources. When taking control of our attention, we’re up against some powerful forces.

Surviving the attention economy

Quick questions: How much control do we have if companies are so good at manipulating our online choices? We need to develop meta-awareness of our digital behavior. It means recognizing our habits, understanding what forces are trying to manipulate our attention, and learning which distraction we are worst at resisting. We can train this awareness by asking the right questions, such as, “What will I gain there?”

Reclaiming your attention

The more often you ask these questions, the easier they’ll come to you next time. Remember: Self-regulation is like a muscle. Knowing this, you can structure your day to complete your most complex tasks during peak focus.  Once we understand our behavior, we can leverage our new kinetic attention to our advantage.

Our bond with our digital devices is unbreakable; we’re jumping in front of screens, from one app to another. This behavior shortened our attention spans, and we feel more stressed than ever, There are tons of notifications dropping every few minutes, and companies are preying on our most primitive desires. Yet, disconnecting from this phenomenon is impossible - at least if we want to keep our job or have a social life. Gloria Mark, Ph.D., breaks down how the digital age has changed the nature of our attention based on her research on behavioral science.

AS SEEN ON ARMCHAIR EXPERT WITH DAX SHEPARD, WALL STREET JOURNAL, NEW YORK TIMES AND MORE **A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NEW NON-FICTION BOOK TO ADD TO YOUR TBR IN 2023** **A "NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB" MUST-READ BOOK FOR JANUARY** Rediscover your ability to pay attention with this groundbreaking new approach from "the definitive expert on distraction and multitasking" (Cal Newport). We spend an average of just 47 seconds on any screen before shifting our attention. It takes 25 minutes to bring our attention back to a task after an interruption. And we interrupt ourselves more than we're interrupted by others. In Attention Span, psychologist Gloria Mark reveals these and more surprising results from her decades of research into how technology affects our attention. She shows how much of what we think we know is wrong, including insights such as: <ul> <li>Why multitasking hurts rather than helps productivity</li> <li>How social media and modern entertainment amplify our short attention spans</li> <li>What drains our mental resources and how to refuel them</li> <li>The four types of attention that we experience every day and how to recognize them</li></ul> While the concept of “flow” has previously been considered the ideal state of focus, Dr. Mark offers a new framework to help explain how our brains function in the digital world: kinetic attention. This book reveals how we can take control, not only to find more success in our careers, but also to find health and wellness in our everyday lives.

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Attention Span

Thinking out of the box sounds too vague because the human brain needs to be wired to do that. To do that, we need various “boxes” of mental models, frameworks, and theories to make sense of the complexity of this world. Good brainstorming is something you design. According to BCG, there are 5 suggestions for how to achieve real, valuable insight from a “hot” brainstorm.

The importance of using a practical question, and laying out specific constraints and criteria for success in advance, will significantly impact the brainstorming sessions. The questions will be sharp and concrete.

Never forget that framing the question effectively is half the battle

For example: Instead of asking, “How can we improve our brand image in the Indian market?” try asking,” How can we get a 25-year-old woman in Mumbai to rave about us to her friends?” Rather than wondering, “How can we come up with new marketing ideas for our airline?” try asking, “How can we ensure that our airline is the first thing that every businessperson in Los Angeles and New York considers when booking a trip?”

Consider the environment before starting a brainstorm session. Gather a range of people with diverse expertise, different perspectives, roles, and perhaps some customers or experts. You can encourage full participation and ensure juniors and seniors feel comfortable sharing their ideas.

Create conditions that foster creativity

The first step in the creative process entails identifying and doubting the current boxes and evaluating which one needs to reevaluate or replacement. Is there anything in the boxes that is irrelevant to the organization? For example, let's say we’re working with government contractors; we start by identifying some critical shared mental models that everyone held about how they worked with various government departments.

Don’t dive straight into brainstorming session-begin by revealing and doubting your own boxes 

Make sure that you have a well-prepared and effective facilitator, like a bus driver: who is well-trained, prepared, adaptive, and alert. Don’t be afraid to experiment with changing perspectives or analogies.

Bring some potential new boxes to the session to nurture ideation; they can dramatically increase the odds of a useful result

Often, after brainstorming and getting good ideas, there’s; bottle action towards the vision. Recognize that more ideas may come after your meeting ends, and follow up with participants once ideas are prioritized.

After your brainstorming session, remember to follow  up

Nintendo was founded as a playing-card company in 1889 and became a global leader in high-tech video and games applications that run on them. What if the executives had said -we are looking for growth, and we should probably be doing something new, so what should that new thing be?- the brainstorming session would be so classic, and Nintendo wouldn’t go this far.

Remember that brainstorming in a creativity session is not a “blue sky.” Considering the dark clouds on the horizon takes energy and time to identify and question your existing models and assumptions. This will lead the classic brainstorming to va results.

The most common thing that happen if the brainstorming won’t work is they don’t blame the brainstorming process. It’s a lot easier to blame the tool than to question your technique. 

A good brainstorming session isn’t something that you jump into—it’s something you design. Here are five suggestions to help your team generate better ideas.

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Building New Boxes: How to Run Brainstorming Sessions That Work

AI, the most rapid change of technology nowadays, helps companies understand their customer better. And many theories say AI will know us better than ourselves. As a customer, I feel these apps, such as e-commerce, help me search for the product I want. However, as a human, there’s something that can be missed from this transformation. Will AI be our assistant in our everyday life?

Without firm self-knowledge, it’s hard to construct a logical story of who we are, the story that would make our life experience and interaction with others. This skill is complex to master, and research suggests that only 10-15% of people are self-aware.

Self-knowledge is the cornerstone of human identity.

The essence of AI is a prediction machine, which consists of algorithms capable of (1) finding patterns in large datasets and (2) training themselves to get “smarter” (increase their predictive accuracy). There are clear reasons to expect AI to improve our ability to understand things, including ourselves.

The widespread adoption provides compelling evidence for the value of AI to consumers; their AI engines do little to improve our self-knowledge. So, is there any problem? <ol><li>Our choices become more data-driven, the consumer sophistication decreases. This is a missed opportunity in the face of growing product supply. </li><li>When the algorithms do work, their work may sound “creepy”; like how did they know what I wanted even I didn’t know</li></ol>

Perhaps, to avoid the dystopian scenario predicted by Yuval Harari, we must democratize the algorithms' knowledge of us, at least by ensuring that companies have to share the personal insights they’re gathered with us. Every trivial choice we make every day reveals central aspects of our identity. Marketers have known this secret for years, so the fundamental choice between Pepsi and Coke, Nike, and Adidas is not based on rational reasons but on identification with the brand, which rests on our interpretation of that brand’s personality.

Imagine how ChatGPT will transform its knowledge of humanity without boosting our self-knowledge. 

The opportunity for AI would be to make us aware of the gaps between how we want to be seen and what are brand and product choices convey to us. As Nathalie Nahai says in her late book, consumers are highly committed to adjusting their preferences based on the reputation of brands, including their moral and political orientation.

The more similar you think the brand to your personality or character, the more you will buy the product.

Consider a few examples: your choice of movies reveals the degree to which you are intelligent, conscientious, and agreeable, and your Facebook data reveals whether you are friendly or introverted. There are few exceptions to this rule, and the list of correlations between human personality traits and product preferences needs to be revised even to summarize.AI could be a real-time coach, giving us regular feedback on our daily behavior. Wearables can translate physiological signals into actionable feedback on our fitness, energy, sleepiness, or stress levels.

There are reliable and systematic links between our preferences and our personality traits

Brands and consumers have a mutual interest in understanding consumers’ personalities. In the 1950s, marketing campaigns were grounded in focus groups and telephone surveys to segment customers “psychographically” to improve the product.With AI, we can get a much more personalized version updated in real-time, enhancing the connection between brands and consumers. A brand is a promise to deliver what people want or need.

This process only needs extensive data on consumers’ behaviors and AI capabilities to translate that data into insights. If a brand wants to share its understanding with the consumer, it will enhance its ethical reputation and trustworthiness.

In the age where data has become commoditized, but the insights and profits are being exclusive for ginormous tech players, what better way to harness consumer trust and loyalty than by giving them back valuable insights, that can turn them into smarter customers, and also self-aware humans. 

AI is already helping companies understand their customers better. And many theorize that AI will soon know us better than we know ourselves. In an age where data has become commoditized, but the insights and profits from data are the rather exclusive belonging of a few enormous tech players, what better way to harness consumer trust and loyalty than by giving people back valuable insights that can turn them not just into smarter and better customers, but also more self-aware humans? After all, if our choices as consumers are becoming more and more data-driven, but that data does not actually increase consumer sophistication or rationality, that’s a huge missed opportunity. We must democratize the knowledge that algorithms have on us, at least by making sure that companies have to share the personal insights they’ve gathered with us. Importantly, brands will enhance their ethical reputation and trustworthiness if they share their insights with consumers; persuading them that there is no conflict between knowing them well, and helping them know themselves well, when done in an ethical and transparent way.

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Should You Share AI-Driven Customer Insights with Your Customers?

In the age of the internet, we still struggle with procrastination. Why do we act against our better judgement? It’s tough to beat procrastination with our rational thinking because we already know what we should be doing now. Let's break down our procrastination cycle:

The word of procrastination comes from the latin “pro”, which means “forward”, and “crastinatus” which means “till next day.”

The neuroscience of procrastination: A Short primer 

Procrastination is a fight between the limbic system- the ancient part of the brain influencing many of our automatic behaviours- and the prefrontal cortex, a newer part involved in cognition and higher-order thinking. This fight arises in several emotions when we procrastinate. Researchers found that this behaviour is often associated with negative emotions, such as anxiety and hopelessness, and even worse, can lead to depression.  No wonder why we hate procrastination. We tend to hate ourselves when we drown so much in mindless scrolling or doing other things.

Procrastination is an emotional process

The vast majority of people will try many ways to beat procrastination. However, it’s so rare to see people treat procrastination as a source of information. The emotional struggle is the message our body and brain are trying to communicate. | Ignoring the message can lead to devastated emotions, while embracing procrastination can help you get unstuck while protecting your mental health.

Journaling as a form of self-reflection can be helpful. But now, let’s use a structure approach, especially when you’re feeling anxious where to star. DUST, created by Graham Allcott, is a simple method to identify why you may be procrastinating. It stands for: Difficult, Unclear, Scary, and Tedious.

Making friends with procrastination 

<ul><li>Difficult: Sometimes, the task we’re about to do is quite challenging, and this may be a statement caused by a lack of confidence, skills, or both. The solution is to move the starting a bit. Make it clear what would be your first action, commit to it, and do not create an endless list of “pre-tasks” before you get started with the main task. </li></ul>

<ul><li>Unclear: To be productive, it’s important to have clearly defined actions. Make friction of your main task actionable, and clearly define items. </li><li>Scary: The feeling of failure can get in the way of our productivity. Our brain is designed in a way to keep us safe. Comfort is good, and risk is bad. Procrastination is a way to stay in your comfort zone.</li></ul>

A solution is to create an even bigger fear to trump the original one. For example, you are announcing your new target publicly. This may trigger the fear of being judged and help you overcome procrastination to avoid disappointing your followers.

<ul><li>Tedious. Some tasks are just boring. To boost your productivity while doing the same thing every day, try to change the environment. For example, you could listen to a podcast while doing the work. Or get some reward after getting the task done. </li></ul>

To apply this model, grab some paper, and dot down every feeling you’re experiencing. Then, consider each emotion in the model to identify whether you’re procrastinating because the task is difficult, unclear, scary, or tedious.

If this model doesn’t work, perhaps you need a break. The task isn’t difficult, unclear, scary, or tedious; you’re tired. Just let it go for now, focus on recharging your batteries, and don’t let feeling guilty about procrastination take your time.

Treat your procrastination the way you treat your progress. 

Procrastination is your body and your brain trying to communicate a state of emotional struggle. Ignoring that message leads to more negative emotions, but embracing procrastination and trying to decipher the message can help you get unstuck while protecting your mental health.

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Why we wait: Understanding the emotions behind procrastination

Interpersonal skills will positively impact our existence in every aspect of life. However, a lack of interpersonal skills can negatively impact our contribution to the workforce. 
A survey by Harvard Business Review found that almost 69% of managers are difficult in expressing directions, speak face to face, and feel awkward feedback conversation. 
Big Think share 5 tips that every organization can offer their employees, from active listening to giving feedback.

Interpersonal skills

Emotional intelligence plays a vital role in interpersonal skills. The four core components of EQ are self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. <ul><li>Self-awareness is understanding one's inner state, what makes a person "tick," and their emotional needs. </li></ul>

Explore emotional intelligence | Daniel Goleman 

<ul><li>Self-management refers to how a person regulates their inner state based on understanding how it influences their behavior. </li><li>Social awareness means compassion toward others' emotional needs and being empathetic toward them. </li><li>Relationship management evolves by adapting one's behavior to ensure productive and mutually satisfying interaction with others</li></ul>According to Goleman, emotional intelligence distinguishes between average and outstanding performers.

"The good news about emotional intelligence is it's learned and learnable, and you can upgrade it at any point in life if you're motivated."

Michelle bolds the critical aspect of relationship-building in the workplace, like giving feedback. Micelle suggests the four steps to ask, elaborate, empower, and collaborate. Turn every conversation from a lecture type into a mutually beneficial collaboration.

Building Relationships Through Likability | Michelle Lederman 

Lack of appreciation and respect in the workplace can decrease the possibility of collaborating. Angie lays out three cardinal rules for reconciling differences with others: <ul><li>You can't change another person's perspective, but you can value differences</li><li>You can't make another person respect you, but you can gin row how you respect yourself and treat them with respect. </li><li>You can't change another person, but you can grow in how you relate to them. </li></ul>

Collaborate Intelligently | Angie McArthur 

Acknowledging what is essential to others will make communication even better. It allows you to communicate in a way that bridges differences and enables cooperation.

It's no doubt that hard conversations are tough. We face it every day. Learning how to navigate this type of conversation is a learning path of interpersonal skills training. According to Perel, expectations of ourselves and others act as filters that influence what we see and hear, which is a real problem. Expectations can lead to assumptions about the words and behaviors of others. Perel suggests setting aside one's beliefs about the other party and ascribing no motivations to their terms and behaviors.

Set up difficult conversations for success | Esther Perel 

Reflective listening gives a person a psychological air to let their emotions breathe and be heard without judgment. This skill is challenging to master without interpersonal skills training.

Moving relationship forward | Todd Davis

The most successful, influential people listen with the intent to understand.

Interpersonal skills is an essential skills that can help us to be the top performer in many areas of our life. Happy reading, folks. 

From active listening to giving feedback, these five capabilities are integral to interpersonal skills training in the workplace.

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In the age of information, we're bombarded with various news through various channels, like social media channels, newsletters, etc. Questioning will benefit our brain to fulfill the information we consumed. There are 3 major habits that can help you to sharpen your critical mind.

Always have an inner curiosity about any information. It doesn't matter if it sounds like a child. Asking open-ended questions will help you to get a better understanding of something.

Questions Assumptions

Pay attention to the argument that is put in the information. Test every argument with questions, and also test every assumption that may rise. This formula can help us to think logically about something.

Reason through logic

It's important to engage with people from different backgrounds. However, it's natural for us to stick with a group that thinks and acts like us. The more we listen from different backgrounds, the more richer our insights would be. It also develops our critical mind.

Diversify thought 

Put a cautious eye on every piece of information you consume, and learn how to spot bias and fake news. 

Improving critical thinking can be so drained and frustrating. We, sometimes, feel like we have to train our critical thinking in everyday life. It’s true, but probably not as deliberately and…

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Habits to Think Critically in the Age of Information

Are you looking for something on what makes someone a leader? This book is for you.

We are often get offended when someone always interrupts us. The well-intentioned drive to fill space and create dialogue can sometimes backfire if we approach a dialogue like a criminal attorney. Silence, is golden. It’s important to remember that everyone has their own rhythm and pattern. We need to be effective listeners. It doesn’t mean you have to evaluate, counsel, etc. It is simply to let the person lead. If you have a problem with listening, count to sever before deciding to fill a silence. Some pauses can generate a positive change in your relationships.

Lead yourself by learning to listen

If we’re prone to a scarcity mindset, let’s get more curious about ourselves. Open the layers of this thinking, and put the thoughts and feelings behind the feeling of scarcity. Train yourself to say something toward one of gratitude and appreciation than being so pessimist.

Lead others by thinking abundantly

Sticking to commitment is such a nudge, it’s such a form of cornerstone in life. However, in this modern life, saying “No” takes so much energy. You should remember that you can’t do everything. Even if you’re not consciously aware of it, saying yes to one thing necessarily means saying no to others.

Make and keep commitments to get results

When you make a commitment, you’re building a foundation of hope. When you keep the commitments, you’re creating trust. And, what happens if you overcommit and underdeliver? It doesn't only unproductive, but also breaks lots of bonds of trust.Practice saying no with grace. You can put some encouraging sentences in your -no- answer, like “Let me get back to you on this."

Being a leader means facilitating and nurturing positive change. Many changes aren’t under our control, what is under our control is to nurture our relationship with the team. Keeping our interpersonal relationships, mentorship and communication will impact the team’s engagement. On another side, it’s important to establish the baseline levels of transparency that fits the culture of the team.

Attune to change to maintain leadership

However, it’s essential to share what is important, acknowledge what is being firmed up, and demand input from others. Commit to keep your team abreast promptly and in a communication style that’s consistent, empathic, and professional.

Also remember, having a multi layers of understanding of your teammate, the challenges, and wins they’re navigating will help you to be a better leader. It’s hard to be a leader, so give yourself a space to learn about you, learn to put a pause between a conversation, and stick to the commitment.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Be an effective listener, stick to your commitment, and give yourself a pause to learn. I think, to create a good management in company or organizations,  needs a brave yet vulnerable leader. 

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Generative AI has a huge potential to change our search behavior in the last few decades. It doesn't only change how we search about pieces of information but also changes our expectations from search.

A potential to change our search behavior

Many people from various industries are getting anxious about being replaced by AI. However, it's too naive to believe such a term. The speculation of how generative AI might change everything we know about knowledge, content creation, and reshape the organization, or even the whole entire industries. It doesn't mean some people will get replaced, it means we have to reshape our skills to the need of nowadays situation.

Getting replaced by AI

The birth of OpenAI shocks everyone, and many influencer has creates videos and blogs that keep telling people the transformation it brings to society. However, there's a hidden thing that everyone should know about this technology. 

Generative AI has the potential to drastically change what users expect from search, and companies such as Microsoft and Google are placing big bets on what it might yield. But despite the hype around ChatGPT — and generative AI overall — there are major practical, technical, and legal challenges to overcome before these tools can reach the scale, robustness, and reliability of an established search engine such as Google. These include problems of keeping large language models up to date, issues around sourcing, and convincing fabrications by the AIs. That said, these tools might be strong fits for narrower, more specialized forms of search.

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