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7 Ways To Get More Time To Think Today There are little pockets of solitude in any schedule. You just have to know how to find them. As Nate Silver describes in The Signal and the Noise, there’s a difference between knowledge and information. Knowledge is a verifiable, articulated signal, while information is ambiguous, coarse noise. And if we’re going to make wise decisions and awesome products, we need the signal, the knowledge. But you don’t need to be Nate Silver to know that a key to processing signal versus noise in your own head is by having enough space and time to think. And as Ben Casnocha notes on LinkedIn, even us Twitter-addled technorati can find a little headspace. It’s not that you need to pull a Rodin and put your fist in your forehead—though style points if you do—instead, he says, you want to “obliquely engage” in two kinds of thought jogging—directed and undirected thinking. Directed Thinking Directed thinking is what happens when you take that monkey mind of yours and give it a job to do, like understand itself. Undirected thinking Do something with a minor mental load and let your mind creatively wander. Read the full story here.  Want more? How Busy People Find Time to Think Deeply

7 Ways To Get More Time To Think Today

There are little pockets of solitude in any schedule. You just have to know how to find them.

As Nate Silver describes in 
The Signal and the Noise, there’s a difference between knowledge and information. Knowledge is a verifiable, articulated signal, while information is ambiguous, coarse noise. And if we’re going to make wise decisions and awesome products, we need the signal, the knowledge.

But you don’t need to be Nate Silver to know that a key to processing signal versus noise in your own head is by having enough space and time to think. And as Ben Casnocha notes on LinkedIn, even us Twitter-addled technorati can find a little headspace. It’s not that you need to pull a Rodin and put your fist in your forehead—though style points if you do—instead, he says, you want to “obliquely engage” in two kinds of thought jogging—directed and undirected thinking.

Directed Thinking

Directed thinking is what happens when you take that monkey mind of yours and give it a job to do, like understand itself.

Undirected thinking

Do something with a minor mental load and let your mind creatively wander.

Read the full story here. 

Want more?

How Busy People Find Time to Think Deeply

5 Insanely Simple Work-Life Balance Shortcuts From People Who “Have It All” Make it your responsibility to decide what matters, and when to get it done—no one else is going to determine or prioritize it for you. Don’t keep separate work and personal calendars or priority lists. (Fast Company likes Clear, if you need an app.) Frequently take stock of what’s working and what’s not—because it’s always changing. Put that on your calendar. Schedule time for small, manageable steps in the areas of their life they’ve identified as important instead of just identifying huge, lofty goals. Focus on and celebrate what does get done, not what falls by the wayside—small or partial steps are better than nothing. [Image: Flickr user Joe Plocki]

5 Insanely Simple Work-Life Balance Shortcuts From People Who “Have It All”

  • Make it your responsibility to decide what matters, and when to get it done—no one else is going to determine or prioritize it for you.
  • Don’t keep separate work and personal calendars or priority lists. (Fast Company likes Clear, if you need an app.)
  • Frequently take stock of what’s working and what’s not—because it’s always changing. Put that on your calendar.
  • Schedule time for small, manageable steps in the areas of their life they’ve identified as important instead of just identifying huge, lofty goals.
  • Focus on and celebrate what does get done, not what falls by the wayside—small or partial steps are better than nothing.

[Image: Flickr user Joe Plocki]