Fayid's Stumbles

A tlog of my Stumbles | fayid.com

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Learn to Unlearn.Unlearn to…

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We learn when we’re in our discomfort zone. When you’re struggling, that’s when you’re getting smarter. The more time you spend there, the faster you learn. It’s better to spend a very, very high quality ten minutes, or even ten seconds, than it is to spend a mediocre hour. You want to practice where you are on the edge of your ability, reaching over and over again, making mistakes, failing, realizing those mistakes and reaching again.

8 Things the Most Successful People Do That Make Them Great | TIME.com

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Cool! Tumblr introduces 2 Factor Authentication.

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Urgent security update

Bad news: A major vulnerability has been disclosed for the technology that powers encryption across the majority of the internet. That includes Tumblr. Our team took immediate action to fix the issue, but you should still take some time to change your password, not only here but on any other sites you visit.  You should also strongly consider enabling two-factor authentication. It’ll go a long way to ensure that no one besides you can access your account. Thanks, and take care.

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Phone Box

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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski (via observando)

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Perceptions About Advertisements

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The Best Types of Tweets...

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About 30 percent of consumers now anxiously embark on an open-ended purchase path, adding and dropping brands, caught in a loop and compelled to continue researching alternatives. Meanwhile, another 30 percent abandon the considered search altogether and simply zero in on a single brand. We call this latter path the "tunnel."

What Do Consumers Really Want? Simplicity - Karen Freeman, Patrick Spenner and Anna Bird - Harvard Business Review

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Any hour of sleep you get before midnight is worth two after midnight, so if for whatever reason you’re only going to get in six hours, you’ll feel much better by sleeping from 10pm till 4am as opposed to getting to bed later at 12am and sleeping until 6am.

Rebuild Your Life | Men's Fitness Magazine

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With the shift to improvisation, the researchers noted the appearance of a distinctive pattern of brain activity. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a region associated with careful planning and self-censorship, became dormant, while parts of the brain connected to the senses — hearing, seeing, feeling — became especially lively.

Anne Murphy Paul: Lessons on Creativity from Jazz Greats | TIME Ideas | TIME.com

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Glowing Waves

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"... Once the task called for rudimentary cognitive skills, a larger reward led to poorer performance!" #Agréable #MentalFloss

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Leadership Grid