Comments on: Change Your Ways and Your Mind Will Follow http://gigaom.com/2008/04/05/change-your-ways-and-your-mind-will-follow/ The Business of Technology Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:58:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: sikantis http://gigaom.com/2008/04/05/change-your-ways-and-your-mind-will-follow/#comment-870034 sikantis Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:56:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12045#comment-870034 <p>Speaking about human behavior and not mentionning esteem ...?</p> Speaking about human behavior and not mentionning esteem …?

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]]> By: Paul http://gigaom.com/2008/04/05/change-your-ways-and-your-mind-will-follow/#comment-869654 Paul Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:23:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12045#comment-869654 <p>Very nice post, thanks. Another interesting book on the topic is Keith Code's "A Twist of the Wrist". Code teaches motorcycle racing. He describes our capacities at any time as our 'budget', and tasks as having costs that must come out of that budget. Practice, task visualization and other techniques reduce the cost of each action (say, taking a turn on a racetrack, or something we all do in daily life), letting us do more things with the budgets we have. It's the opposite of the 'just work harder' ethic.</p> <p>But it is also worth pointing out that these techniques are best applied to small, repetitive tasks - throwing a pitch, chopping vegetables, etc. For more complex tasks (interactive ones, those requiring adaptation on the fly), you need to mental flexibility and lightness, too. Part of the reason why the new guy is the most dangerous guy in the room at most martial arts studios.</p> Very nice post, thanks. Another interesting book on the topic is Keith Code’s “A Twist of the Wrist”. Code teaches motorcycle racing. He describes our capacities at any time as our ‘budget’, and tasks as having costs that must come out of that budget. Practice, task visualization and other techniques reduce the cost of each action (say, taking a turn on a racetrack, or something we all do in daily life), letting us do more things with the budgets we have. It’s the opposite of the ‘just work harder’ ethic.

But it is also worth pointing out that these techniques are best applied to small, repetitive tasks - throwing a pitch, chopping vegetables, etc. For more complex tasks (interactive ones, those requiring adaptation on the fly), you need to mental flexibility and lightness, too. Part of the reason why the new guy is the most dangerous guy in the room at most martial arts studios.

]]> By: Winslow Theramin http://gigaom.com/2008/04/05/change-your-ways-and-your-mind-will-follow/#comment-869553 Winslow Theramin Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:32:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12045#comment-869553 <p>You made a critical mistake: don't ever claim to have a conservative columnist as one of your favorites. You'll be shunned.</p> You made a critical mistake: don’t ever claim to have a conservative columnist as one of your favorites. You’ll be shunned.

]]> By: pro http://gigaom.com/2008/04/05/change-your-ways-and-your-mind-will-follow/#comment-869541 pro Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:21:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12045#comment-869541 <p>What he wrote is common sense. "10.000 hours of practice"; don´t tell this number is figurative or aproximately; it´s totally arbitrary. I don´t like people that made secure assumptions based in nothing. There are too many gurus in this world.</p> What he wrote is common sense. “10.000 hours of practice”; don´t tell this number is figurative or aproximately; it´s totally arbitrary. I don´t like people that made secure assumptions based in nothing. There are too many gurus in this world.

]]> By: Marl Balou http://gigaom.com/2008/04/05/change-your-ways-and-your-mind-will-follow/#comment-869534 Marl Balou Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:24:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12045#comment-869534 <p>This is the same philosophy & technique behind any “meditative” state. This is characterized as getting into a state of “flow” by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi. Ancient Hindu scriptures also suggest that the person should carry out the task without having the mind worry about the results or other extraneous thoughts. This kind of focused attention can be attained thru mindfulness meditation or yoga. Many great sportsmen naturally get into this state when they are at the peak of their game.</p> This is the same philosophy & technique behind any “meditative” state. This is characterized as getting into a state of “flow” by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi. Ancient Hindu scriptures also suggest that the person should carry out the task without having the mind worry about the results or other extraneous thoughts. This kind of focused attention can be attained thru mindfulness meditation or yoga. Many great sportsmen naturally get into this state when they are at the peak of their game.

]]> By: km4 http://gigaom.com/2008/04/05/change-your-ways-and-your-mind-will-follow/#comment-869512 km4 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:23:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=12045#comment-869512 <blockquote> <p>New York Times columnist David Brooks is one of my favorites.</p> </blockquote> <p>Well then Carleen for an inside look with shapp perspective you should should pick up this book by Glen Greenwald</p> <p>Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/01/great_american_hypocrites/index.html</p>

New York Times columnist David Brooks is one of my favorites.

Well then Carleen for an inside look with shapp perspective you should should pick up this book by Glen Greenwald

Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics
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