Thinks I find along the way
Hmmm. Where did the weekend go? I spent mine pondering the demise of Google Authorship, David Amerland’s book Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques That Get Your Company More Traffic, Increase Brand Impact, and Amplify Your Online Presence and attempting to understand and deploy Schema.org. Total #geekweekend! Here’s the best of what I found:
AJ Jacobs has a post that caught my eye if only because I once had an unruly Boston terrier…
I don’t trust my brain. It’s got some good qualities, sure, but it needs constant supervision. It’s like an unruly Boston terrier — left to its own devices, it will scamper off and rummage through the garbage can, spreading rotten guacamole all over the house. In my brain’s case, this means the hours spent wallowing in unrealistic worries, time-wasting regret and revenge fantasies.
My brain needs constant tugs on its leash to redirect it. And I think I’m not alone. Most brains are like that.
So who should supervise my brain? Since I’d rather not have an NSA-implanted chip monitoring my thoughts, I have to monitor my thoughts myself. I have appointed myself my brain’s babysitter.
Get the rest of the article here: Supervising Your Brain | AJ Jacobs.
I try to listen to one mediation from @tarabrach every day; in this mediation below, she talks about the concept of the brain as a ‘reducing valve’:
That is an interesting concept to me and I was able to read more about it here if you are interested in knowing more about to what she was referring:
Reflecting on my experience, I find myself agreeing with the eminent Cambridge philosopher, Dr. C. D. Broad, \”that we should do well to consider much more seriously than we have hitherto been inclined to do the type of theory which Bergson put forward in connection with memory and sense perception. The suggestion is that the function of the brain and nervous system and sense organs is in the main eliminative and not productive. Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful.\” Continue reading “The brain as a ‘reducing valve’…”
I’ve spent a good amount of time recently helping a goddess in distress who needed to rollup over a dozen email accounts into one. The key? Use Gmail. And advanced search. And filters! I came across a great post that talks about using advanced search for deletion and I thought I’d share it here because […]
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I’ve spent a good amount of time recently helping a goddess in distress who needed to rollup over a dozen email accounts into one. The key? Use Gmail. And advanced search. And filters! I came across a great post that talks about using advanced search for deletion and I thought I’d share it here because you can use the same principles not only for deleting, but filtering email….
Here’s the perfect post for a rainy Sunday; make this the weekend you get command over your Gmail! http://t.co/kCOhdaDOYu — Todd Lohenry (@toddlohenry) October 6, 2013
Also, I came across a great tool on Lifehacker that checks your inbox for subscriptions and gives you the opportunity to either unsubscribe or roll them up to a single email. I’m a strong advocate against getting newsletters in your inbox from a productivity standpoint and unroll.me showed me that I had allowed over 200 of them to sneak into my inbox…
One, and one more thing; I’ve added a Gmail resource page to the site. All the good articles I find will be posted there as well…
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There is a state of wisdom and love within you now. You can access it through meditation.
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TV viewing is changing dramatically. Here is a peak into what the future might hold.
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Your device isn’t evil unto itself, of course. But the more you can become aware of your own habits and the effect your screen time is having on you, the more in control of your attention you can be.
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“Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.” ~Unknown
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A new study by researchers at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that adults can be trained to be more compassionate. The report, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, investigates whether training adults in compassion can result in greater altruistic behavior and related changes in neural systems underlying compassion.
“Our fundamental question was, ‘Can compassion be trained and learned in adults? Can we become more caring if we practice that mindset?'” says Helen Weng, lead author of the study and a graduate student in clinical psychology. “Our evidence points to yes.”
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It’s the most complicated organ in the human body, burns 20-30% of the total number of calories in your body, and is said to contain more tiny internal connections than there are stars.
The wonder-organ we’re referring to is the human brain.
And despite its complex nature, it’s actually very easy to look after.
Although, with many of us being unaware of how our intelligence, happiness and longevity continually changes depending on how we care for our brain, learning how to improve its health can undoubtedly change our lives.
via Think You’re Health Conscious? How’s Your Brain Looking?.
Bright, shiny objects! 
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