Technorati Tags: education Suite 101 has posted a short guide to how sitting posture can effect which side of the brain you will tend to use - left brain preferring rigidity and a firm setting, right brain preferring comfort - pretty interesting stuff worth bearing in mind.
Posture and Learning - How To Engage Left and Right Brain […]
LifeDev posted this back in February but I forgot to blog about it because I Am But Human and the link kinda got lost in my Google Reader Starred category (seriously, it’s a cool feature, but a number-of-starred-items indicator would be nice).
Anyway, I mostly agree with the opinions put across in the article, and the […]
Now, this is going to seem like I’m going off-topic here, but bear with me for a second.
I want to talk to you about dogs.
Dog Training
I read a lot about habits, particularly from Steve Pavlina. The act of working out what habit you want and embedding it deep in your psyche and muscle memory is […]
A nice new academic-centric productivity blog that’s worth a look: Academic Productivity. In particular, I enjoyed this interview with Dave Navarro, in which he talks about how he writes academic papers - a ‘bottom up’ approach, choosing figures and chunks of text and then slowly building up into the big picture. Which is interesting, because […]
So Lifehacker have posted a link to 7 Helpful tips to Immediately Increase Your Confidence, which is a valuable little page that I recommend you all read - if you’ve looked into personal development for very long there’ll probably be nothing all that new here, but it’s definitely worth a look.
I have issues with confidence […]
So Wil Wheaton has made an awesome post on something we all forget to do from time to time, but something that’s dead important: taking time out for yourself.
Being dedicated to making other people’s lives better is all good, but if you don’t take care of yourself, you’re not going to be any help to […]
So I’ve been using my personal productivity scoring system (outlined here) for a week now, and I have some Reflections and Tweaks as a consequence.
It’s Actually Not That Hard
My first and most important point is that it’s surprisingly not as hard as I expected to keep the system running - reflecting on the day’s […]
So I’ve been using my personal productivity scoring system (outlined here) for a week now, and I have some Reflections and Tweaks as a consequence.
It’s Actually Not That Hard
My first and most important point is that it’s surprisingly not as hard as I expected to keep the system running - reflecting on the day’s […]
So I ordered a BookGem book holder a few months ago, and I must say I rather like it. It’s a slightly odd-sounding concept - the thing is a portable folding book stand - but it works absolutely perfectly for my purposes.
I use it to hold copy that I’m typing out - I like to […]
People seem to hesitate on the simplest questions. I always thought it was just me, but apparently not. For example, I was in a coffee shop recently, and heard this little exchange at the counter.
“Cup or mug?” Long pause “Um… er.. Cup! Yes, cup, please.”
Choices are difficult and can easily slow you down. In the example above, […]