Making the Right Move: Time Management
While reading Section Time Management in the book: Making the Right Move, I summarized some important points:
- Set long-term, intermediate-term, and short-term goals.
- Intermediate-term goals could be writing a research paper, preparing a new course, and so on.
- Short-term goals could be preparing figures, completing an experiment, and so on.
- Avoid doing in stuff in the first quadrant: Not-important-Not-Urgent.
- Focus on stuffs in the second quadrant: Important-Not-Urgent.
- Rotating your tasks. Learn to multitask
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Reading aloud
I used to read aloud when I was kid. But since I knew that reading aloud slows down the reading itself, I begun to read silently. Altough, I aware that reading aloud improves my comprehension. I was thinking that too much information out there; therefore, reading fast is a way to go. But I change again my mind today as I read an editorial article in the New York Times. The article has a title of `Some Thoughts on the Lost Art of Reading Aloud‘. The writer has some good thoughts:
- Reading aloud may reveal our understanding of the words. Reading aloud recaptures the physicality of words.
- Our idea of reading is incomplete, improverished, unless we are also taking the time to read aloud.
Mental training as a way to strengthen our mind
Just watched a video about a healthy mind; the speaker is Daniel J. Siegel M.D; and the talk is a part of GoogleTechEdu. He has written a number of interesting books:
- Mindsight: the new science of personal transformation
- Mindful brain
- Developing mind
The most important point from the talk, in my opinion, is that mental training can be used to strengthen those neurons in the prefrontal cortex of the brain, which takes responsibility in large activities we do.
Ten minutes each day of a mental training is important where we practice to aware of our awareness, pay attention to our intention.
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