Tag: <span>focus</span>

There’s a lot of people that would love to be more creative, but while the benefits to a heightened creative capacity are clear, creativity itself comes in many shapes and sizes. This makes it rather…

“To attain the lofty heights of our society, one must possess nearly-psychotic focus. This focus comes at the cognitive expense of being able to see novel relationships among unrelated concepts.” —Andrew Smart, Autopilot We’ve been…

Ever since we’ve had the tools to externalize knowledge, we’ve taken advantage. From writing on cave walls to printing books and saving files to our computers. While a sticky memory was critical in the past, now…

For serval years now brain training applications for smartphones and computers have claimed to improve our mental abilities. The purported benefits include a better working memory, improved problem solving abilities, and greater focus. What research…

Mindfulness is a word being thrown around a lot recently. Yet there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about what it is. To be mindful, in very general terms, is to be aware. Take…