by Ela | Sep 27, 2011 | Decisions, Exercises, How-to, Learning, Nerdy, Performance
How would you characterize your best personal decisions? Think about it. What is coming to your mind? Are you thinking about producing results, personal growth, or a great outcome? Are you thinking about a more balanced living as a result? Are you thinking about fast...
by Ela | Sep 15, 2011 | Decisions, Learning, Pattern recognition, Patterns, Performance
Are you the one who despises intuition, or are you the one who respects it? Are you the one who thinks intuition is a word coined to cover the criterion-free and otherwise arbitrary decisions? Are you the one who neglects the power of intuition in favor of a...
by Ela | Sep 9, 2011 | Decisions, Learning, Nerdy, Pattern recognition, Patterns, Performance
This is a follow-up for the post on rational decision making. And first, a boring but important bit: “Most theories of choice assume that decisions derive from an assessment of the future outcomes of various options and alternatives through some type of...
by Ela | Sep 2, 2011 | How-to, Learning, Nerdy
This is a guest post by my friend Konstantin from www.lifesucks.org. I’m a heavy laptop user. I use my laptop for accessing the internet, desktop publishing, making websites, communicating with people overseas and many other important tasks. Up until last year,...
by Ela | Aug 8, 2011 | Decisions, Learning, Nerdy, Pattern recognition, Performance
How come you have applied the best strategies to make the best decision, yet the solution you arrived at did not stand against the expectations? How come you have spent so much time on analyzing the data, but the solution did not bring the happiness you were after?...
by Ela | Jun 27, 2011 | Learning, Understanding
Let’s say you are making progress in spurts. You live comfortably from one day to another until you encounter a certain idea. Not an idea. A strong idea. Perhaps you read a book. Or you listen to the news. Perhaps you overhear a conversation in a bus. Or your...