Sometimes when you "think on paper," you don’t get paragraphs of clarity, but paragraphs of questions. The questions proliferate in all directions as you see more and more things you don't know and feel you need to know to make any progress. Questions proliferating in...
Tactic: "Pile-Sort-Arrange" Overview What: This is a higher-leverage variation of list-group-choose. When: Use this tactic when your lists are so long that you feel overloaded and confused just looking at them. This tactic helps you move from one long list to...
In a previous article, I explained that your motivation to act results from the interaction between your present awareness and your value hierarchy. A value hierarchy is a psychological structure consisting of all of your values, interrelated with one another. Some...
Burnout is a common problem. When you "burn out," you lose the motivation to do productive work that you have done in the past — and used to enjoy doing. There are three common sources of motivation: a personally meaningful (selfish) purpose, an inspiring person, or...
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To concentrate on a mentally demanding task, you typically need at least one full hour of free time when you can ignore everything and everyone else. At that time, you focus all of your energy on that one task. I teach many tactics for concentrating effectively during...
When you have a big question to think about, don't wait until you have 2 or 3 hours free to tackle it. There just aren't enough big blocks of time available to make that a practical strategy. Instead, learn how to Velcro together smaller blocks of time--say 25...
Do What Matters Most You will need to print the workbook and the summary sheet for the course: You may want to print this handout that goes with the Understanding Inertia class: (Scroll all the way to the bottom for the complete list of materials and the audio...
If you've been reading my blog, or my website, you've read about a lot of processes and procedures you can use to help get your mental wheels turning when you're feeling overloaded, or conflicted, or doubtful, or otherwise not sure what to do. They're great ideas....
Finding a Topic for Concentration Exercises For the exercises and tactics in the Thinking Lab Library section "General-Purpose Question-Asking", you need topics to think about. The purpose of this exercise is to generate some interesting possibilities. We will use a...
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