WOWOW: Innovation and Skills
Changing the world with Larry Page, innovation with Brad Bird, intelligence analysis with the CIA, and the 75 skills for every man to master, all without any limits.
Larry Page on how to change the world --
Breakthrough ideas are around the corner, says the Google co-founder. But most of us are failing to take a chance on them.
Pixar's Brad Bird on fostering innovation --
This week The McKinsey Quarterly asks: what does stimulating the creativity of animators have in common with developing new product ideas or technology breakthroughs? Apparently, a lot.
Never have a limit on your income --
If you sell pens for a living and someone orders a million pens, no problem! You just place an order with your manufacturer for a million pens, get them to the customer, and celebrate.
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis --
A classic in my library, examining the influence of bias on accurate analysis, among other things. Must read.
The 75 Skills Every Man Should Master --
A man can be expert in nothing, but he must be practiced in many things. Skills. You don't have to master them all at once. You simply have to collect and develop a certain number of skills as the years tick by. People count on you to come through. That's why you need these, to start.
Have a successful week and make sure to measure your progress.
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WOWOW: A Higher IQ and Less Fat
Brain exercises and fat loss, nothing more.
Simple brain exercise can boost IQ --
The exercise involves tracking small squares on a screen that pop into a new location every three seconds. Volunteers have to press a button when the current location is a duplicate of two views earlier.
At the same time, consonants are played through headphones and a button is pressed if the letter is the same as that heard two "plays" earlier.
If participants perform well, the interval to be tracked (n) increases to three or more stages earlier.
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How do we actually lose fat? What do we mean by fat "burning"? Here's a very simple, (dumbed down) explanation of what actually goes on to create a fat loss effect.
High levels of fat mobilization + High levels of fat oxidation = Accelerated fat loss.
The Top 5 Reasons to Get Even Leaner --
A leaner organism is a more effective organism.
Come with minimal luggage. Don't bring more than you really need.
Lean determines the ratio between work and rest, between production and administration, between muscle and fat. The more muscle that is at work against less and less superfluous weight -- as opposed to specific workload -- the more effective is the whole system. Think bureaucracy. Think governments.
So, exercise that mind and that body and let the summer come. Now.
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WOWOW: Information Superpower Vampires
Information-deficits, energy vampires and the one true mental superpower.
Swimming Against the Stream
Go on a high-information diet --
Everyone seems to think that if they could just reduce the flow of information into their lives, everything would be all better. They could finally relax and take a minute to catch up.
My advice is the opposite: you don’t need less information, you need more information. What you need less of is input — all the crap that flows at you masquerading as information.
Listen: in order to be information, an input must make you better informed.
By definition, you can’t have too much information; when an input, no matter how good, ceases to inform you, it is no longer information.
Use news-fasting as an only temporary solution to increase productivity, for example --
If you want results and you want them fast enough, you have to go extreme ways. Don't expect a balanced approach, we're going all out here. This is no moderate diet, no zone, this is the no-carb, guaranteed fat-loss, whatever-it-takes solution.
It comes down to collecting news vs. gathering useful intelligence. You do not want to deprive youself of real information; see above.
Even more important is the approach of doing the opposite of what everybody else is doing. Especially when it comes to "hacking life": Mass-hacking life anyone?
Maintaining Precious Energy
Protect yourself against energy vampires --
- They are often bitter, angry and resentful... and they want you to share their pain.
- They don't want solutions, they want pity.
- They don't want constructive feedback, they want attention.
- They don't want to take responsibility, they want to blame and vent.
- They seem to revel in their own misery.
[...]
This sounds harsh, but some Vampires need to be avoided.
Choose your friends and acquaintances wisely. Make sure you spend (lots of) time with people who will drag you up, not down. You need to keep your tank full.
One Mental Superpower: Belief
Nothing more, nothing less, and nothing esoteric.
Mental superpowers: How to unleash the full potential of your mind --
So, what is it that will unleash the superpowers of your mind? It is belief. You have to believe without doubt in the deepest recesses of your heart and mind that you can and will fulfill your desires. You have to believe so deeply that it creates a level of intensity in your thinking so that your desire becomes a burning obsession. You have to be able to visualize it and emotionalize it vividly. It has to consume you. You have to believe at the level where you know that you can overcome any obstacles that may arise. That you will pay any price. You will give and do whatever it takes to achieve your goal. When you believe like this, you invoke the superpowers of your mind and you will alter reality.
That's it. Keep and defend your energy as good as you can, make use of the one true superpower, finally, avoid collecting news or raw information but instead actually employ real intelligence. And have a nice weekend.
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WOWOW: The Scissors Edition [Links of the Week]
Please, quickly, we're almost there. Have a look at the last ones for this year. Just a glance and you're done.
The Secret to Winning at Rock, Paper, Scissors --
Research shows that stone, also called rock, is the most popular of the three possible moves in the game. That means that your opponent is likely to choose paper, because they will expect to you to start the game with stone. By going with scissors, you achieve an early victory.
How to Set Up a Portable Personal Nerve Center --
You can get the best of both worlds by setting up a web-based Personal Nerve Center (PNC) and making it ubiquitous and redundant so it's available from anywhere, even offline.
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I wonder if there is a trend in blog reading that we like nicely packaged, un-challenging, charming blogs, just like the tabloid celebrity culture we are all familiar with.
Why Self Actualization Requires Exercise --
Maslow's advice is more applicable today than it ever has been. Maintaining our physical health is absolutely necessary to keep our journey towards self-actualization on a firm foundation. Make the investment in your physical health, and you will continually receive dividends throughout the other facets of your life.
Intelligence Redefined: Are You A Gifted Person?
In the process of lauding top scorers and scholarship winners we may be crowding out those who actually have advanced and complex patterns of development but just don't fit the system's definition of 'top students'.
Just make sure to have the one to asses be someone who is either absolutely intelligent (doesn't exist) or one who has completely overcome ego (wouldn't assess other's intelligence)...
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You can be happy. You can live the life you want to live. You can become the person you want to be. This is what I've figured out so far.
Hacking yourself? The following comes up every year or so, but still --
Drugs to Build up That Mental Muscle --
Despite the potential side effects, academics, classical musicians, corporate executives, students and even professional poker players have embraced the drugs to clarify their minds, improve their concentration or control their emotions.
That's it. It's over. Time flies. See you soon.
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