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❶ In today’s information age, in many companies and on many teams, the objective is no longer error prevention and replicability.❷ On the contrary, it’s creativity, speed, and keenness.❸ In the  industrial era, the goal was to minimize variation.❹ But in creative companies today, maximizing variation is more essential.  ❺ In these situations, the biggest risk isn’t making a mistake or losing con..

❶ Merely convincing your children that worry is senseless and that they would be more content if they didn’t worry isn’t going to stop them from worrying.❷ For some reason, young people  seem to believe that worry is a fact of life over which they have little or no control.❸ Consequently, they don’t even try to stop.❹ Therefore, you need to convince them that worry, like guilt and fear, is nothi..

Preventive public healthcare services that are as important as hospital treatment ❶ From the earliest times, healthcare services have been recognized to have two equal aspects, namely clinical care and public healthcare.❷ In classical Greek mythology, the god of medicine, Asklepios, had two daughters, Hygiea and Panacea.❸ The former was the goddess of preventive health and wellness, or hygiene, ..

The importance of parents maintaining composure in parenting❶ Most parents think that if our child would just “behave,” we could stay calm as parents.❷ The truth is that managing our own emotions and actions is what allows us to feel peaceful as parents.❸ Ultimately we can’t control our children or the obstacles they will face ― but we can always control our own actions. ❹ Parenting isn’t about ..

❶  The brain is a high­energy consumer of glucose, which is its fuel.❷ Although the brain accounts for merely 3 percent of a person’s body weight, it consumes 20 percent of the available fuel.  ❸ Your brain can’t store fuel, however, so it has to “pay as it goes.”   ❹ Since your brain is incredibly adaptive, it economizes its fuel resources.   ❺ Thus, during a period of high stress, it shifts aw..

❶ Architects might say a machine can never design an innovative or impressive building because a computer cannot be “creative.” ❷ Yet consider the Elbphilharmonie, a new concert hall in Hamburg, which contains a remarkably beautiful auditorium composed of ten thousand interlocking acoustic panels.❸ It is the sort of space that makes one instinctively think that only a human being — and a human w..

❶ If you drive down a busy street, you will find many competing businesses, often right next to one another.❷ For example, in most places a consumer in search of a quick meal has many choices, and more fast­-food restaurants appear all the time.❸ These competing firms advertise heavily.❹ The temptation is to see advertising as driving up the price of a product without any benefit to the consumer..

❶ The irony of early democracy in Europe is that it thrived and prospered precisely because European rulers for a very long time were remarkably weak.❷  For more than a millennium after the fall of Rome, European rulers lacked the ability to assess what their people were producing and to levy substantial taxes based on this.❸  The most striking way to illustrate European weakness is to show how ..

❶ Much of human thought is designed to screen out information and to sort the rest into a manageable condition.❷ The inflow of data from our senses could create an overwhelming chaos, especially given the enormous amount of information available in culture and society. ❸ Out of all the sensory impressions and possible information, it is vital to find a small amount that is most relevant to our i..

❶ As always happens with natural selection, bats and their prey have been engaged in a life-or-death sensory arms race for millions of years.❷ It’s believed that hearing in moths arose specifically in response to the threat of being eaten by bats.     ❸ (Not all insects can hear.)❹ Over millions of years, moths have evolved the ability to detect sounds at ever higher frequencies, and, as they ha..

❶ A typical soap opera creates an abstract world, in which a highly complex web of relationships connects fictional characters that exist first only in the minds of the program’s creators and are then recreated in the minds of the viewer.❷ If you were to think about how much human psychology, law, and even everyday physics the viewer must know in order to follow and speculate about the plot, you..

❶ Rebels may think they’re rebels, but clever marketers influence them just like the rest of us.❷ Saying, “Everyone is doing it” may turn some people off from an idea.❸ These people will look for alternatives, which (if cleverly planned) can be exactly what a marketer or persuader wants you to believe.❹ If I want you to consider an idea, and know you strongly reject popular opinion in favor of m..

❶ The “jolt” of caffeine does wear off.❷ Caffeine is  removed from your system by an enzyme within your liver, which gradually degrades it over time.❸ Based in large part on genetics, some people have a more efficient version of the enzyme that degrades caffeine,  allowing the liver to rapidly clear it from the bloodstream.❹ These rare individuals can drink an espresso with dinner and fall fast ..

The Power of the Consumer: The Importance of Conscious Purchasing❶ There is little doubt that we are driven by the sell­-by date.  ❷ Once an item is past that date it goes into the waste stream, further increasing its carbon footprint.❸ Remember those items have already travelled hundreds of miles  to reach the shelves and once they go into waste they start a new carbon mile journey.❹ But we all..

Buy Consciously, Make Companies Do the Right Things❶ As you may already know, what and how you buy can be political.❷ To whom do you want to give your money?❸ Which companies and corporations do you value and respect?❹ Be mindful about every purchase by carefully researching the corporations that are taking our money to decide if they deserve our support. ❺ Do they have a record of polluting the..

Optimistic fantasies weaken the motivation needed to realize aspirations.❶ It’s remarkable that positive fantasies help us relax to such an extent that it shows up in physiological tests.❷ If you want to unwind, you can take some deep breaths, get a massage, or go for a walk ― but you can also try simply closing your eyes and fantasizing about some future outcome that you might enjoy.    ❸ But w..

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