Faster Ideas

MAY 12, 2021

Jon Kabat-Zinn of the University of Massachusetts is one of the key people who introduced mindfulness practice to the west. This repeated action activates a part of the brain called the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex, which is responsible for functions including our capacity for selective attention - a.k.a.

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Charles Leon

JULY 4, 2021

Working as part of a team, all focused on the same goal, supported joyful long hours of work with like-minded people. I am, like many people, afraid of laziness and boredom because of the uncertainty that lies in the void they create. We often tend to fill our time with unproductive tasks. I think it's a cultural thing.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

This post is for all the people who think Twitter is stupid but wish they didn’t. Twitter lets you find people like you. Twitter helps solve this problem because you can find people like you. Twitter is a live index of people and the weirdness we harbor, which is a gift to the world of loneliness. Do a search.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook A lot of people ask me how I manage to keep a job when I have Asperger syndrome. So I'm doing a series this week on the topic, because it’s true that most people with Asperger’s are not doing well at work. Find people who believe in you, and then reveal deficits. I hate variety.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 14, 2010

People who tell me I’ve jumped the shark. Honestly, I had never even heard this idiom until people started writing it in my comments section. People who tell me I should record the webinars. People at my office who wonder why I’m not there. I know I should. But I don’t control it. Ryan Paugh does.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 14, 2010

I don’t think people are happy or unhappy. For one thing, people who are happy do not look for a lot of choices, according to Barry Schwartz, in his book, The Paradox of Choice. I think this because I’ve lived in NYC, where people value having a wide range of choices and opportunities over having a life that makes them feel happy.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 9, 2009

I said, "He won for being nice to people and reminding us all to be nice every day." " The Nobel Prize Committee said something interesting about Obama's award: "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future."

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