How do you get to work? Are you sardined into a commuter train/tram/bus lurching in unison with the vehicle’s motion? Do you drive in a swarm of traffic that leaves you stressed and anxious at the start of the day? Or, do you walk to work like a do – along a pathway like this?
I read an interesting article about things you can do to boost your creativity and insight. It comes from research from neuroscience which has fascinating insights into what our brains can do.
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you’ll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
~ William Bennett Former US Secretary of Education
Photo credit – Mary Bird
Everybody is sitting around saying, ‘Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.’ That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.
~ Wilma MankillerPhoto credit – Colton Brown via Unsplash
Unconscious bias has become one of the “buzz terms” of organisational life. The good news is everyone has unconscious biases. The bad news is the same. So what can we do about it?
Learning about learning has led to learning about the brain. It seems that learning in later life – as in earlier parts of life – involves neural pathways. Growing new neural pathways is possible well into adult life. We know this because of the plasticity of the brain. It’s plastic?
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
~ Lao Tzu
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
~ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
The story behind a name often adds to its meaning. So it was with the name of this blog.
Photo credit – Shlomit-Wolf via Unsplash
As part of this blog I am engaging in some blogging projects. I completed a photo 101 project some months ago and learnt lots of new tricks. Now it is time to fine-tune some blog writing skills.
