Random Musings

  In summary: “Relevance realization” is critical to flourishing in life. In bounded domains, it can be accelerated through designing effective games. In unbounded domains, relevance realization requires an openness to external guidance. Openness is achieved by cultivating right-hemispheric skills. This means pursuing “positive-sum” games that are intrinsically enjoyable. The better we get at relevance realization, the more adapted we get to our own specific niche. This makes us both more efficient and maximizes the impact we can have on our environment.    Can't agree more with so much information thrown our way serendipity and relevance realization will help immensely in weaving magic and be up the curve compared to the normal human  https://thekcpgroup.com/insights/the-idea-of-the-year ( Source )

 

Source:  https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/understanding-how-design-thinking-lean-and-agile-work-together

Multitasking and the effects in the new world..... and why FACE-FACE matters.... Great TedTalk by Cliff Nass

What Is Intelligence, Anyway? By Isaac Asimov What is intelligence, anyway? When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me. (It didn't mean anything. The next day I was still a buck private with KP - kitchen police - as my highest duty.) All my life I've been registering scores like that, so that I have the complacent feeling that I'm highly intelligent, and I expect other people to think so too. Actually, though, don't such scores simply mean that I am very good at answering the type of academic questions that are considered worthy of answers by people who make up the intelligence tests - people with intellectual bents similar to mine? For instance, I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I alw...

Q: What is the chemical that helps us in building instant connections or that leads us to falling in love...?? Ans: Oxytocin

With the explosion of information and umpteen number of places that vie for your "head space" comes Attention Deficit Disorder . Paul Graham in a nice post has a good advice on how to manage this one.. " You can't directly control where your thoughts drift. If you're controlling them, they're not drifting. But you can control them indirectly, by controlling what situations you let yourself get into. That has been the lesson for me: be careful what you let become critical to you. Try to get yourself into situations where the most urgent problems are ones you want think about. You don't have complete control, of course. An emergency could push other thoughts out of your head. But barring emergencies you have a good deal of indirect control over what becomes the top idea in your mind." http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html

" Attention, multitaskers (if you can pay attention, that is): Your brain may be in trouble." this scares you read on.... http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/august24/multitask-research-study-082409.html