Archive for the 'Personal Productivity' Category

Complementarity of Focus and Awareness

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Focus and Awareness are two essential inner processes that determine our productivity and our level of enjoying what happens around us. It depends only on us how we manage each of them and especially how we balance them. There are two kinds of attention: convergent attention and divergent or distributive attention.
Focus is Convergent Attention
Focus means […]

3 Principles to Succeed

Monday, July 24th, 2006

1. Keep your tasks out of your mind
According to the author of “Getting Things Done” David Allen a key factor of your productivity is to keep your mind free of what you have to do. Because if you think continually at all you have to do your mind can’t focus just on one task at […]

Is Optimism a Naive and Shallow Outlook?

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

There are two situations when the optimism may be seen as a naive outlook.
First, when the optimism is defined as a doctrine. The doctrine of Leibniz, which say that we live in the best of all possible worlds.
Now, if you look at reality in a realistically way, you’ll see that the saying of Leibniz isn’t […]

Boring, Quiet and Meditative Moments

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

From a historical point of view, we can divide the world into ancient, medieval, modern and post-modern periods.
Silence in Ancient and Medieval Worlds
Some authors say that ancient and medieval periods were full of boring, silent and meditative moments. And that beginning with the modern era, our life has become more tumultuous and deprived of quiet […]