Posts Tagged ‘thought’

Rico Clusters: An Alternative to Mind Mapping

I’m not a big fan of mind mapping, though I concede that it does have its uses. Recently, I learned of a different approach to brainstorming that seems both more practical and better grounded in the way the mind works than traditional, Buzan-style mind mapping. This approach, called the Rico Cluster after its developer, Dr. Gabrielle Rico, focuses on the creation of a “web” of related and… » Continue

October 24 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: brain, brainstorming, creativity, mindmap, outlining, rico_cluster, teaching, thought, writing | 31 comments»

Three More Reasons Why Your Brain is Not Your Friend

Last week, I explained some of the ways that our brain tricks us. There’s more ways than just the three I listed that the brain works in odd and mysterious ways, causing us no end of mischief. Here’s three more:

I am not a racist!

In 1964, a woman named Kitty Genovese was beaten and killed in an attack witnessed by dozens of people, none of whom… » Continue

October 19 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: brain, perception, psychology, racism, thought | 21 comments»

Your Brain is Not Your Friend

A mind is a terrible thing. Whether because of the brain’s internal structure or the way social and cultural pressures cause our minds to develop and function, in the end the result is the same: minds that are not only easily deceived and frequently deceptive in their own right, but when caught out, refuse to accept and address their errors. If you have a mind — or… » Continue

October 12 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: brain, psychology, thought | 36 comments»

Writing and Remembering: Why We Remember What We Write

A few weeks ago I wrote a post on note-taking skills. One common experience many people have, and that several people mentioned in response to that post, is that when they take good notes they remember things well enough that they rarely end up having to look at their notes again.

In fact, it seems that writing anything down makes us remember it better. On the other… » Continue

September 28 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: brain, memory, notetaking, studying, thought | 22 comments»

Success Tips: Why you should broaden your patterns of thought

Discover your thought patterns, then act on that knowledge.

We all develop habitual patterns of thinking: channels along which our minds run all too easily into recurring patterns of mental behavior. People often aren’t fully aware of these patterns precisely because they are so much part of their lives. It’s terribly easy to miss the role they play in limiting your options and determining how things will nearly… » Continue

July 30 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: habit, pattern, success, thought | 8 comments»

Change Here

After the election last week in the United States, change is a hot topic, but it isn’t political change that I have been thinking about recently. It’s how organizations and their leaders cope—or, more often, fail to cope too well—with the need for changes in business practices to promote growth and foster creativity.

It’s a truism to point out that no one can avoid change. It’s part of the reality in… » Continue

November 13 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: breakthrough, business-fundamentalism, change, civilized-work, corporate-culture, creativity, dignity, effectiveness, Hamburger-Management, happiness, improvement, lifebalance, Management, priorities, slow-leadership, strategy, thinking, thought, trust, work, work-life, work/life-balance, worklife, workplace | 1 comment»

Communication, Thought, and Time

Over at Slow Leadership, this week has been all about using your time. I don’t set out to give each week’s postings a single theme, but sometimes it happens that way.

It began with considering the relationship between time, action and thought in a posting I called Taking Your Time. Some people claim that jumping into actions and decisions without stopping to think is the right thing… » Continue

August 28 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: Communication, concentration, decision, effectiveness, knowledge, leadership, learning, Management, misperception, performance, slow-leadership, thinking, thought, thoughts, time, timemanagement, work-life | 1 comment»

Cognitive Restructuring - Turn Unhappiness to Happiness

Cognitive approach to stress management is found effective based on recent research. From the stream of cognitive approach, different tools are designed for helping people live out a happy, stressful-free life even under unhappy or stressful situations. Over at Mind Tools site, you’ll find a useful tool, Cognitive Restructuring:

… for understanding and turning around negative thinking. It helps us put unhappy, negative thoughts “under the microscope”, challenging them… » Continue

March 6 2006 | By Christine | Tagged: method, thought | 6 comments»

Bigotry, Ignorance and Fear

Ignorance and fear, the two pillars of bigotry, are powerful allies. Each supports the other. Ignorance seems to be on the increase as people are persuaded by “true believers” of every kind to value belief over thought. » Continue

February 13 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: discrimination, fear, habit, sentimentality, thought | 6 comments»

A Notebook and a Brain

I found a great reminder of high school, college, and dream journals in an article from DiYPlanner. I’ve always liked notebooks, to keep track of dreams, records, ideas, and so much more. It also might be good for your hand to write a while instead of type! Here are a few tips and ideas for notebooks:

If you’re using the notebook for creative purposes as well, don’t

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January 23 2006 | By Jordan | Tagged: notes_taking, Productivity, thought | no comments»

How to fast track to be a Thought Leader?

Brian Fling from Blue Flavor talks about a term called Thought Leadership. From Wikipedia, Thought Leader is:

… a buzzword or article of jargon used to describe a person who is recognized among his or her peers for innovative ideas and demonstrates the confidence to promote those ideas. The term can also be applied to companies, usually small businesses.

Brian in his article talks about how to use online, and specifically… » Continue

January 5 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: blog, leadership, thought, writing | 1 comment»