Yet another anecdote on walking and mind-wandering, this time from Chemistry World: In late 1922, Wolfgang Pauli took an aimless stroll through Copenhagen’s beautiful streets, deep in thought. Presently,
Travis Bradberry, writing on LinkedIn, has a nice summary of current thinking about sleep deprivation and productivity: the short-term productivity gains from skipping sleep to work are quickly
One of the questions I often get when I talk about technology and distraction is about music and focus. (This almost always comes up when I speak at
From Graham Greene's The End of the Affair (quoted by Rachel Toor in her Chronicle of Higher Ed piece on the habits of productive writers): "I was trying
For years we've heard of doctors having to deal with patients who come into appointments armed with pages of information they found on the Internet. Now, plastic surgeons
In case you missed it, this Melissa Dahl piece talks about the emerging interest in the upside of mindlessness, or what cognitive scientists tend to call mind-wandering: Like
Laura Vanderkam has a nice piece about learning to speak in public despite being an introvert. As she explains in the New York Times, You’d think that book writing
Every now and then I’ll come across a study that really impresses me because of its use of amazing longitudinal data. There are now studies of the long-term
When you're giving a talk, your space should be your friend. Remember Frances Yates' Art of Memory, and her discussion of the Roman orator's memory palace? (Of course you do.)
There have been a number of studies documenting the effect of meditation on the brain, enough so that the claim that “meditation rewires your brain” is one that