Dan Lyons
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“Researchers have found that doing something boring makes people more creative. They suspect it might be because the brain, when bored, goes looking for things to do. It feels unsatisfied, so it goes into Search mode. Thanks to smartphones, we can keep ourselves from ever being bored. There’s always a distraction. But that distraction is unproductive. Our brains become occupied with empty activity, which leaves no room for daydreaming or creative thinking.”
― STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World
― STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World
“it’s all about slowing down, speaking with intention, letting other people speak, asking good questions, and then really listening to the response.”
― STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World
― STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World
“Silicon Valley now aims to remake the notion of the corporation itself, by inventing radical new ideas about how to build and manage companies. Unfortunately, many of their ideas are terrible.”
― Lab Rats: Tech Gurus, Junk Science, and Management Fads—My Quest to Make Work Less Miserable
― Lab Rats: Tech Gurus, Junk Science, and Management Fads—My Quest to Make Work Less Miserable