Humans have a natural curiosity - its a drive to learn patterns, rules, heuristic that lets you compress your understanding into something that's easier to remember. If you encounter a new rule that can better compress knowledge than the earlier one, that is 'compression progress'. Brain will use the better rule from then onward. We learn many such rules as children - but we refine them as we grow older. Brain rewards us with a good feeling or 'Aha moments' when we find a better rule.
Published on Nov 25, 2022
GTD/Getting Things Done is a time management system that works on the principle of getting information from your mind to an outside system. It follows this workflow...
Published on Oct 18, 2022
This is part of the PARA method of Personal Knowledge Management.
Published on Oct 16, 2022
The use of existing knowledge to prevent new and perhaps contradictory knowledge to come in. The mind will try to protect its existing beliefs. Knowledge Shields can lead to wrong conclusions and can make us discount evidence.
Published on Oct 16, 2022
Cognitive Bias is a known error in the thinking process. These are generally caused by brain using shortcuts to process large amount of inputs.
Published on Oct 15, 2022
When someone judges/gives opinion on matters outside their area of expertise. Eg. A football star talking about a political situation.
Published on Oct 15, 2022
Time blocking is a time management method that divides a day into multiple time blocks. Each block is for a specific task, with the intention to stay focused on that task exclusively. To use this well, create your task list in advance - ideally at the start of the day.
Published on Oct 03, 2022
This is a concept in Stoicism. In its simplest form...
Published on Oct 02, 2022
This refers to how we believe where the power in our life lies.
Published on Oct 02, 2022