Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath
“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”
Category: Motivational
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All about MINDFULNESS!!
Adopted from the following great insight shared by David Rock from the book Your Brain at Work
“Mindfulness is a habit, it’s something the more one does, the more likely one is to be in that mode with less and less effort…it’s a skill that can be learned. It’s accessing something we already have. Mindfulness isn’t difficult. What’s difficult is to remember to be mindful.”
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Are you into constant emailing and text messaging?This will make you rethink
Adopted from the following great insight shared by
“A study done at the University of London found that constant emailing and text-messaging reduces mental capability by an average of ten points on an IQ test. It was five points for women, and fifteen points for men. This effect is similar to missing a night’s sleep. For men, it’s around three times more than the effect of smoking cannabis.”
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The power of SNAP judgements comes through experience , this explains..
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Blink
“Our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can’t look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret – and decode – what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions.”
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The STORYTELLING conundrum explained..
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath
“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We’re a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don’t really have an explanation for.”
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There is a relationship between PROGRESS and UNREASONABILITY..this explains
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
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The law of LEGITIMACY and its THREE principles
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath
“Legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice–that if they speak up, they will be heard. Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today. And third, the authority has to be fair. It can’t treat one group differently from another.”
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Are you looking to change a HABIT?This scientific approach would help..
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Charles Duhigg from the book The Power of Habit
“To modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consciously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that drive the habits’ routines, and find alternatives”
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When CHANGE is difficult, convert the CHANGE into an HABIT..
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Charles Duhigg from the book The Power of Habit
“If you believe you can change—if you make it a habit—the change becomes real. This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be. Once that choice occurs—and becomes automatic—it’s not only real, it starts to seem inevitable.”
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Most of our everyday choices follow a pattern , this is why
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Charles Duhigg from the book The Power of Habit
“Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.”