May 2009
8 posts
Fifty-seven wine experts couldn’t even tell they...
In 2001, Frederic Brochet, a researcher at the University of Bordeaux, ran a study that sent shock waves through the wine industry. Determined to understand how wine drinkers decided which wines they liked, he invited fifty-seven recognized experts to evaluate two wines: one red, one white. After tasting the two wines, the experts described the red wine as intense, deep, and spicy—words...
“Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human...”
– Merlin Mann
Only in the last ten years—thanks to...
This has yielded all kinds of fascinating insights—for instance, that when forced to multitask, the overloaded brain shifts its processing from the hippocampus (responsible for memory) to the striatum (responsible for rote tasks), making it hard to learn a task or even recall what you’ve been doing once you’re done.
“What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its...”
– Herbert A. Simon
“A CBS News/New York Times poll revealed Tuesday that Americans are split into...”
– (via)
Just don't have time...
Never use the phrase “I just don’t have time to do that.” We have time. We just choose not prioritize that item over another item
Buying time is the probably the most important thing you can do to leverage yourself to do more of what you want to do.
(via) Auren Hoffman’s Summation Blog