Studies show 9/10 People Daydream Their Way Through the 17 Million Meetings/Day in US From: Thursday, February 18, 2021
February is National Time Management Month.
Good luck with that. The average person has already tried 13 different methods to get a grip on the tyranny of time, and this is not new. Calendars were invented about 5000 years ago to help us track the annual flooding of the Nile because life and agriculture depended on knowing when the floods would begin. So we made up time to serve us, rather than the other way around! Let me repeat that, excerpted from : [W]e created time to help us to survive and to thriveânot to torture us the way we have let it, it seems
Bhagavad Gita, written thousands of years ago:
I am come as Time, the waster of peoples,
ready for the hour that ripens to their ruin.â
Whoâs in Charge?
Whoâs in charge here? Are we really going to let this abstract thing we made up define our lives? But there are only twenty-four hours in a day, you say; what can we do about that? We donât have to do anything about that because there are plenty enough hours in the day when we are spending them right.
Yes, that is right, all we need to do is take back the power. Put the executive brain in charge of time. Multitasking is not your friend. And neither is mind wandering all over the place for the fun of it. Both are energy sucks. And energy is time, because in a clear and focused state of high energy we get more done. And we get it done right, so we donât have to waste time doing it all over again.
From new book, “Getting to G.R.E.A.T.: 5-Step Strategy for Work and Life…Based on Science and Stories”:Think about it. How could our brain possibly keep conscious all of the information thrown at it by the eyes, nose, ears, tongue, and skin. These sense organs send about 11 million bits of information per second to
Are Our Schools Run By Fools?
By Michael J. Herman
In Pressure Mounts to Reopen Schools an article for #TheWallStreetJournal #DanielHenninger  (Feb 3, 2021) discusses the problems with mass home schooling and opening schools for in-person attendance. Among the issues presented in the article, Henninger reports that enrollment in Los Angeles schools has fallen by nearly half and that parents are tiring of schools being closed. The temperature is consistent nationwide.
Is it really a surprise to anyone that enrollment is so depressed?
Students need engagement. They need not only engagement, but interaction. In this highly digitized world in which this young generation lives, it s all about Gamification and on this issue educators and parents widely lose.