Tag: focus
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Failure Teaching
There is a common belief that most significant learning comes from our failures. And yet there are mistakes that we seem to repeat, over and over again. Is learning from failure overrated? A few years ago, researchers at MIT suggested that we may not learn as much from mistakes as we do from success. But…
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Equating Procrastination
A skilled procrastinator can be highly innovative, inventing all sorts of reasons not to do something, conceiving clever excuses to delay starting or not to have finished. If you have to rely on someone who’s expert at this kind of delaying, it can be maddening. If you’re the procrastinator putting off your own projects, it…
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Do You Feel Lucky?
Lucky people deliberately choose to make their life diverse and different. Unlucky ones tend to stick to routines. So one way to instantly improve your luck, and your creativity, is to change things up. Do it differently. Eat lunch at a different place. Shop at a new store. Walk home a different route. And while…