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Want to improve your cognitive ability?Start with learning "White"

Author:Cool brain Time:2022.09.29

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The following is the audio of the full text of Miss Sister

Author | Christine Louise Hohlbaum

Translation | Liu Zihan

Grade -Cool Brain Creative

Reading | Pigeon Tsai

Artist | Jenny

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Key points:

l "White" paved the way for a better solution for thinking.

L needs to be temporarily stopped. It is not like meditation and does not require a specific length.

L smartphone usually brings a sense of urgency. Therefore, learning correctly using smartphones can improve a person's thinking ability.

I rarely cry when reading business books. I don't remember this experience at all. But when I picked up the book "A Minute to Think: Reclaim Creativity, Conquer Busyness, and Do Your Best Work", I had a reaction in the heart -happy. This is because I found a soul partner I have never seen in the book, a person who values the power of "blanking" like me.

Studies have shown that rest on working days can enhance your creativity. Just like the Japanese term "MA" cited in the book "The Power of Slow", when we deal with the time between the two things, we actually have an opportunity to change our thinking. FUNT believes that leaving white represents a time without assignment, which is open and non -fixed.

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Common misunderstandings about leaving white

After talking to customers' calls, I found that three common misunderstandings often appeared when they taught the concept of "leaving white".

Misunderstanding 1: The time for whitening is only used to rest.

Return is indeed a very necessary part, but the space for whitening also provides a channel for creativity, objectivity and true innovation. It is a place to create and incubate ideas. Anyone who has a flash of light when taking a bath knows the power of leaving white space.

Misunderstanding 2: Blank must have a specific length.

The time to leave white does not necessarily require a long time, even if it is a small pause of 30 seconds or 5 minutes from time to time, it is also an effective way to adjust the rhythm of thinking.

Misunderstanding 3: The brain is empty when leaving white.

Leave white is not a kind of meditation practice, but a period of time to sort out your internal hard disk, which can make the hidden things appear.

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How to defeat the thief

Through research, FUNT has determined four key elements and corresponding methods to solve the time thief. Among them, two thieves are about action: busy (busy risk) and active (crazy risk). The second is static: excellence (risk of perfectionism) and information (risk of overload).

If you want to solve these problems, you can ask yourself:

Busy: Is there anything I can let go?

Active: What is the most worthy of my attention?

Excellence: Where is the boundary of "good enough"?

Information: What are the information I really need to know?

If you often ask yourself these questions, then you can avoid waste of time. You can try to set up a special challenge for yourself: when you have no schedule, it takes a minute to do nothing at all. For those who are accustomed to busy, this may be an uncomfortable experience. Although the goal of driving ourselves is a lofty pursuit, we also need to realize that it is meaningless to compare ourselves with others in social media and other places, and it can even be said that it is a waste of time.

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The other two concepts that have resonated with many people are "hallucination urgency" and "telephone narrative". A study by McCom Business School shows that the development of smartphones has enabled people to reduce people's cognitive ability even when mobile phone shutdown is turned off. Because, we always look at our social circle to see what the latest developments we might miss, thereby increasing our sense of urgency and exhausting us.

Although using smartphones is a skill we must master, I suggest you might as well tell the person standing in front of you, what you are watching on your mobile phone. It not only keeps you connect with the people in the room, but also prevents you from being distracted in the notice that has nothing to do with your original intention.

FUNT said in a paragraph in the book: "I think, if the devil wants to destroy us, he will not choose to sweep humans. This way of extinction human beings is too poetic. Such as sexy, seductive, and hypnotic things make us enjoy our death. Slowly, we will stop talking to each other, and society will collapse because of the death of intimate relationships. My cell phone."

When reading FUNT's book, I put the phone elsewhere elsewhere, which made me feel that it was liberated and uncomfortable, just like choosing to die after overeating during holidays. Nevertheless, I still persist. When I re -planned my day, I started a conscious or unconscious practice to leave the time for "leaving white" and stay away from my phone, and I was surprised to find that I had a lot of time than before. The book "Minute to Think" shows us the benefits of temporarily stopping in life. The book shows us through the story carefully designed by the author. Even if we spend a little time on white, the sky will not fall. To be sure, when our creativity continues to flow on the canvas of the white space, the devil will also be blocked outside the bay.

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