A. Brain Workshop
http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/
What is your short-term memory like?
Do you, every single moment (like me writing this), keep a notebook and pencil ready so you don't forget?
When learning something, are you the type who looks at the other person and listens? Or the type who jots everything down diligently?
Do you start to say something and then quickly forget it?
Are you good at English?
All of these apply to me.
So, on AJ's recommendation, this is where I was pointed.
It's about training your brain.
If you'd like to refresh your dazed brain's mood, visit and install it right away.
"Hearing it a hundred times is no match for not seeing it," they say.. lol (quoting AJ.)
-> My way of using it ^^ http://bit.ly/mx46er
Still very embarrassing, but I believe in the saying "well begun is half done"!
And although it's not the same field lol, I have plenty of experience and I know it works.
(Anyone who knows me will know lol)
Whoever happens to read this ^^ — you can change too!!!
B. Pomodoro Time Management
http://kwon37xi.egloos.com/4523018
Agile project management techniques introduce iteration and daily standing meetings as solutions to such inefficiencies. They divide a large task spanning months into short iterations (2~4 weeks?) and decide what to do during that iteration. But even this is too long. So with daily standing meetings, members share what they did yesterday and what they'll do today, pulling distant goals right up in front of their eyes.
Doing this, focus during work increases, and the curve of working time/efficiency becomes flat and consistently even.
But... the Pomodoro Technique says even one day is too long.
- Every morning, decide which of your many to-do items you'll do today and their priorities. Write them down on a to-do list paper.
- Starting with the highest priority, set a 25-minute timer and focus solely on that task. Stop email, phone, messenger, web surfing, even bathroom — everything else — and focus only on the work.
- When the timer rings after 25 minutes, stop work and rest for 5 minutes. As much as possible, get up from your seat. Go to the bathroom, loosen your shoulders.
- After 5 minutes, continue what you were doing — or, if it's done, pick another task and focus for another 25 minutes.
- Repeat the above. After about 4 pomodoros (1 pomodoro = 25 minutes of work and a 5-minute break), take a longer rest, batch-read your email, make calls, chat... etc.
- Each time you finish a task, draw a strong line through that item on the paper.
- At the end of the day, hold a retrospective on how focused you were and how well you fought off the distractions in your mind.
When you slice work into small pieces like the Pomodoro Technique, bring goals up close, and train consciously, you really get the feeling that the day was packed full. I've been practicing it for about a week and the improvement in focus is considerable.
Do give it a try. In my case, since I rarely do things away from the computer due to my profession, I installed theChromoDoro plugin in Google Chrome (my default browser) to practice the 25-minute focus / 5-minute rest cycle, and instead of paper I used the Todoist to-do management service via the Todoist Chrome plugin. In this plugin, after picking the task to do today and raising its priority, the color changes, helping you focus more on it. Some Pomodoro plugins even block specific sites entirely during focus time.
And while you work, it's good to listen to some sound that gives you a sense that something is happening (a tick-tock kind of sound) — one of the common misconceptions people have is the idea that quiet means better focus. In fact, a little noise is said to be better, and I actually feel that way too. Instead of a clock sound I work while listening to a thunderstorm MP3 from nature, downloaded at http://www.naturesoundsmp3.net/free-thunderstorm-sound/ .
In other words,
Through A, train to expand the brain's memory and the area in which it operates,
and through B, maintain the broader range of action of the expanded brain.
We will, definitely, evolve. Because we're human. Even if not all the way to Super Saiyan 3 like Goku from Planet Vegeta. ^^
