Merce Cardus's Blog, page 39
June 8, 2016
How Not to Spend Your Whole Day on Facebook
Relax, says Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit. You can’t beat your F[image error]acebook addiction into submission – so schedule it into your work day.[image error]
In all the studies of procrastination, what they’ve basically said are two things: number one, you can’t find some work reward that’s going to take the place ofprocrastination. Right? If the reward for procrastination is that you get to spend five minutes distracted by Facebook, you have to allow yourself to do that. That has to be part of you...
When Ideas Have Sex
In The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley, the New York Times-bestselling author of Genome and The Red Queen, makes the case for an economics of hope, arguing that the bene[image error]fits of commerce, technology, innovation, and change—what Ridley calls cultural evolution—will inevitably increase human prosperity
For culture to turn cumulative, ideas needed to meet and mate [image error]
Sex is what makes biological evolution cumulative, because it brings together the genes of different individuals. A mutation that occ...
June 7, 2016
Combine Incompatible Ideas to Shift Perspective
Keats, author of Virtual words, explains how a thought experiment in which he [image error]attempts to genetically engineer God allowed him to create a situation in which science and religion become compatible. The experiment further opened up an exploration of where the two seemingly irreconcilable elements can be made to merge.
Science and religion both have very particular ideas about how the world works. Ideas that potentially are not totally compatible, but that are overlapping. Science claims t...
Karma: The Experiences Of Your Soul
In The Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukay, the award-winning author of The Dancing Wu Li Masters, here takes us on a brilliant and penetrating exploration of the new ph[image error]ase of evolution we have now entered.
The lifetime of your personality is one of a myriad of experiences of your soul [image error]
Most of us are accustomed to the belief that our participation in the process of evolution is limited to the duration of a single lifetime. This belief reflects the perspective of the five-sensory personality.
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June 6, 2016
The Science of To-Do Lists: Psychology Can Make You More Productive
Are to-do lists about feeling a sense of accomplishment or actually get[image error]ting things done? The typical way of writing lists can result in feeling good about yourself at the expense of productivity, says Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit.[image error]
Before I started working on this book I wrote to do lists the same way that most people write to do lists. And it turns out this is exactly the wrong way to write a to do list according to psychologists and neurologists. I would sit down in the mor...
Purpose Through Observation
Third Circle Theory is a book about self-awareness, and the underst[image error]anding of how impactful our observations are in our day-to-day lives. Whether your goal is to learn practical entrepreneurship skills, leadership attributes, or to understand how and why you make certain decisions; Third Circle Theory and its teachings can help you reach the next level of success on your journey.
Why Do You Exist? [image error]
This question is often left unanswered, as its meaning can be interpreted in about a thousand w...
June 5, 2016
Mirroring: The Body Language of Love and Attraction
In our attempt to make scientific findings “applicable,” people have said some pretty creepy things about body mirroring, the natural event in which people subconsciously mimic each other’s body language. On the other hand, consciously mirroring someone’s body language in order to manipulate them is awkward, says Jane McGonigal, author of SuperBetter, at the very least. So instead of trying to manipulate people, simply be aware of when body mirroring happens in your life —it may be a sign th...
Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive
Since the fateful night of his car accident, Brendon has lived a fully charged life, and he’s helped millions of people around the globe transform their lives and feel more alive, engage[image error]d, and fulfilled.
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In The Charge, Brendon argues that the only way to measurably improve the quality of your life is to learn how to activate the very ten drives that make you most human.
Out of darkness
Why is it that in our abundant world of choice and connectivity so many of us feel lacking and detached?...
June 2, 2016
LinkFest ~ Best Reads on Writing, Screenwriting & Self-Publishing: You Can Imagine It
WRITING 
6 Tips for how to organize your novel’s edits| HELPING WRITERS BECOME AUTHORS How can you organize your novel’s edits so you can actually make sense of them [image error]
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[image error]Helpful tips on historical research| BOOKS BY WOMENMa[image error]ny writers set their work in the past, but only a very few have the luxury of a training in historical research. Yet online resources are making it easier than ever before to get to grips with...
June 1, 2016
A Supercut on Writer’s Block
Discover the tricks that your brain uses to keep you from writin[image error]g—and how to beat them.
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Want to write, but find it impossible to get started? Keep your schedules so full that you don’t have any time to write? Wait until the last minute to write, even though you know you could do a better job if you gave yourself more time? Suddenly remember ten other things that you need to do whenever you sit down to write? Sabotage your own best efforts with lost files, missed deadlines, or excess...
