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2022-05-28 09:00:00 The five-finger method

This is a technique of reflection designed to summarise the day's work and review the tasks performed. It helps you to quickly summarise your experiences, identify your strengths and weaknesses, and find and correct any mistakes you have made.

The essence of the method.
Five-finger method reflection consists of five steps aimed at different areas of human life:

Intelligence.
Achievement of goals.
Emotion.
Interaction with other people.
Health and well-being.

The point of the method is to assess how the previous day or a completed task has affected each of these areas. To make it easier to remember the steps, the method uses a simple mnemonic technique: each step corresponds to a different finger on the hand.

To analyse the past day, look at the fingers on your right hand and recall today's events from the morning. How detailed the analysis should be is up to you. Open / Comment

2022-05-27 19:00:01 For learners of difficult languages: Be more expressive!

Gesture with all the words and phrases you learn.

Literally: if you are learning the conjugation of the verb "jump," jump. And if you need to learn a dialogue or a complex phrase, act out a skit. You'll see, it'll catch on in no time. Open / Comment

2022-05-27 15:00:01 30 days of healthy habits. Checklist for creating a habit

On a daily basis or every few days, mark the habits you do to bring them to automatism.

For example, set a goal, drink water in the morning, do exercise, read an interesting article or book.

After a month, you'll be able to track your progress with the habit, see how comfortable you've chosen, and see if the habit suits you. Open / Comment

2022-05-27 09:00:01 Vic Johnson "52 Mondays: The One Year Path to Outrageous Success & Lifelong Happiness"

According to Vic Johnson, you can accomplish a lot in a year if you set yourself a goal and progress steadily towards it. It is true that there are a few secrets, and the author willingly introduces them to the reader, telling how to achieve their dreams week after week.

Of course, it's not so easy to dedicate a year of your life to achieve what you want; it's a responsible decision and will require a lot of patience from you.

But if you are strong in spirit, persistent, diligent and conscientious, consider the world in your pocket!

The main thing is not to give up and move towards your goal step by step, week by week. Open / Comment

2022-05-26 19:00:01 Why it's worthwhile to start a decision journal

Its purpose: to reflect on and improve your very approach to decisions. By recording and regularly evaluating them, you'll better understand your thinking, and you'll notice what you tend to default to and what traps you most often fall into.

For example, you'll see that you act irrationally during times of stress or a tight deadline. By being aware of your reactions, you can mitigate the consequences in similar situations in the future.

Keeping such a diary will also help combat a cognitive distortion called the "Hindsight bias". It is this: what has already happened always seems obvious and predictable to us. We even begin to believe that this is what we thought from the beginning, which means that we can foresee events in the future as well. This leads to unjustified confidence in our rightness.

Understanding exactly where you made a mistake and why is very important. Such information will help you correct your mistakes and make better decisions. Open / Comment

2022-05-26 15:00:01 An interesting way to solve the problem is to set the brain to sleep. Yes, you can do that, too!

Before you go to sleep, think about the problem you need to solve. It's not a mental experience, but a very specific problem.

For example, you need to think of the structure of the meeting or the scheme to optimize spending.

Think about it before you go to sleep, and then immediately after awakening.

It is quite possible that your brain found the solution to the problem while you were asleep. Open / Comment

2022-05-26 09:00:01 The cascading wave method is a planning method in which the plan is detailed as you go along.

In other words, the project is not written out from start to finish: only the next steps are planned in detail, and the next steps are outlined in very general terms.

This approach is useful if the initial plan is likely to have to be changed or refined.

We have the "freedom to manoeuvre": if something goes wrong, we can painlessly adjust our actions at any stage of the work.

The main disadvantage of the surge method is the inability to accurately forecast costs.

We cannot determine timelines and calculate the accounting for a project, nor can we plan the consumption of materials and other resources. If this is important to us, it is best not to use the method. Open / Comment

2022-05-25 19:00:01 To develop your sixth sense, constantly train your five basic senses

Touch, smell, hearing, sight, taste... These five familiar senses are all channels for the sixth sense. That is to say, simply put, a bad smell from a product alerts us to its expiration date, pain when we touch, say, an iron, that it's hot, and so on.

So, to develop a sixth sense, imagine any object: a toothbrush, a book, a screwdriver, or a mug — in fact, it doesn't matter what. Now try to recall in detail the smell of the object, the way you feel when you touch it, the way it looks, and the sound it makes when it falls to the floor. Keep thinking about the chosen object for five minutes.

Practice this exercise daily! Open / Comment

2022-05-25 13:05:00 Creative thinking. How to train and why it is necessary?

Constantly, in any situation, try to come up with something new. It can be anything — a new way to brush your teeth, a new way to eat with a spoon, a new way to make money. It can be a new way to improve your activities or just an idea for a new activity.

Why is it necessary? It's needed because creative imagination is a skill just like any other. It's a skill that needs to be developed. And you can only develop the skill with regular practice.

The more often you come up with anything new — the easier it becomes for you to come up with it.

Your creative thinking begins to develop. And when you have real, really demanding tasks in life — it will be much easier for you to solve them. Open / Comment

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