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اخترت الكتاب بدون سابق تخطيط أو رغبة. بدأت فيه في صباح الجمعة الماضي وأنا أعاني من الأرق ! شدتني البداية وإسلوب الكاتبة وخلفيتها. كباحثة - تحت التمرين - بدا لي إسلوبها مألوفاً ممتعاً لعقلي لأنه يخاطبني بالإسلوب الذي أصبحت أحب. هذه مراجعة تحفيزية أولي ...more "
“Multitasking has been found to increase the production of the stress hormone cortisol as well as the fight-or-flight hormone adrenaline, which can overstimulate your brain and cause mental fog or scrambled thinking. Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation. To make matters worse, the prefrontal cortex has a novelty bias, meaning that its attention can be easily hijacked by something new—the proverbial shiny objects”
― The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
― The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
“يظن البعض أن المطلوب مهندسون و أطباء،و هو ظن خاطئ إذ أن الحضارة تقوم بالتساوي على أكتاف كل المبدعين …”
― من أوروبا البلد
― من أوروبا البلد
“Even though the World Wide Web has made hypertext commonplace, indeed ubiquitous, research continues to show that people who read linear text comprehend more, remember more, and learn more than those who read text peppered with links.”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
“We want to be interrupted, because each interruption brings us a valuable piece of information. To turn off these alerts is to risk feeling out of touch, or even socially isolated.”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
“The faster we surf across the surface of the Web—the more links we click and pages we view—the more opportunities Google gains to collect information about us and to feed us advertisements. Its advertising system, moreover, is explicitly designed to figure out which messages are most likely to grab our attention and then to place those messages in our field of view. Every click we make on the Web marks a break in our concentration, a bottom-up disruption of our attention—and it’s in Google’s economic interest to make sure we click as often as possible.”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
52 Books In 2010 .. ٥٢ كتاب في ٢٠١٠
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هدف في عام 2010 وهو قراءة 52 كتاب في العام، لماذا 52؟ لأن العام فيه 52 أسبوعاً وكل أسبوع يمكن قراءة كتاب ، لكنني لن أقرأ كل أسبوع كتاب ، في بعض الأحيا ...more
UAE Good Readers
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For the many many goodreaders living in the United Arab Emirates.
كتابات : أحمد صبري غباشي
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أحمد صبري غباشي كاتب ، وممثل ، ومخرج مسرحي .. قام بتمثيل ما يقرب من خمسة وعشرين دوراً في نصوص مسرحية عدة ، منها العربي والعالمي . وأخرج للمسرح أربعة ...more
احياء لذكرى د.غازي القصيبي ..
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لم يمض صباح يوم الاحد الموافق ١٥/٨/٢٠١٠ كبقيه الايام ، بل كان ذلك الصباح لوحة سريالية ولدت فيها آخر أعمال الدكتور غازي القصيبي «قصة الزهايمر»، وقبل أن ...more
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