Less Doing, More Living: Make Everything in Life Easier

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After 10 years, most study participants reported they could complete daily activities at least as well as they could at the beginning of the trial, if not better. Qiu N, et al. (2018). Rapid improvement in visual selective attention related to action video gaming experience. Solution: Triage upcoming work before signing off, so you have a clear starting point the next morning.

Rebok GW, et al. (2014). Ten-year effects of the ACTIVE cognitive training trial on cognition and everyday functioning in older adults.When you are forced into a situation where you have to do what you need to learn, it’s easier to remember those things. Every action provides personalized learning experiences, and it’s where motivation is built. That motivation connects to what is learned and felt. It teaches that learning is relevant and meaningful.

In classroom settings, one way to introduce this technique is to have many low-stakes quizzes. These quizzes aren’t based on assessing one’s performance. Instead, these quizzes are designed to have learners engage with the content and to generate the learned information themselves. A 2018 study looking at 29 people found evidence to suggest an hour of gaming could help improve visual selective attention (VSA). VSA refers to your ability to concentrate on a specific task while ignoring distractions. It can help to start by talking to a therapist, especially if you’re feeling stressed or have noticed changes in your mood. Sometimes it takes a trained professional to notice these symptoms. The first benefit is that it’s more engaging and memorable. Since this requires action on your part, you’re not going to be able to weaken your performance. This is big since, traditionally, you’d learn from lectures, books, or articles, and learners could easily read—or not read—the text and walk away with no knowledge at all from it. For example, say you’re looking to play a musical instrument and were wondering how all of them sound and mix. In most other techniques, you’d be playing the instrument all by yourself in a studio. Learning by doing instead gives you a basic understanding of how to play the instrument and puts you up on a stage to play an improvised piece with other musicians.

12. Know When to Walk Away

Others, such as Elisa Doucette in her article in The Startup , mention that the phrase can be presumptive and even pressure the recipient to pretend everything is going well even if it isn't. Sentence (2) has some interesting grammar. It includes an example of heavy element shift. This sounds complicated, but it isn't. Sometimes when the complement of a verb or noun is very long, we like to shift it from it's normal position so that it occurs towards the end of the phrase. So for example in: Another approach is one that Psychologist Rich Mayer put together. According to him, learning is a generative activity. [2] His knowledge and the research done in his lab at Santa Barbara have repeatedly shown that we gain expertise by doing an action, but the action is based on what we already know. In the context of an equal pay claim, where a person doing equal work is able to show that they are receiving less pay or other less favourable terms in their employment contract, or identifies a contract term from which a comparator benefits and they do not, the employer will be required to show the reasons for this.

At Asana, we don’t think productivity is “doing as much as you absolutely can, always.” We don’t even think of productivity as a way to get the most output out of each day. Rather, we think productive people and teams are those that spend less time on work about work—like attending status meetings with no clear goals, searching for documents, or chasing approvals—and more time on work that matters to your organization.Now, the doing mode will often try to re-assert itself and take hold of our minds even when we’ve begun to experience the feeling of just “being”. While this can be frustrating, ultimately there needs to be a balance between the two states. Certain tasks require the kind of focused concentration or autopilot response that the doing mode promotes, while at other times, we’d seriously benefit from the peace and stillness of just being. This form of learning is deeply integrated into our lives as well. Deep learning occurs best when learners can apply what they’ve learned in a classroom setting to answer questions around them that they care about. Clarify priorities early and often. Even if you don’t say “no,” make sure your team members and stakeholders understand the relative priority of what you’re working on. That way, you can ensure stakeholder and team member buy-in on your work.