How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World with Dorie Clark

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10/12/21 • 61 min

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Mind Love • Modern Mindfulness to Think, Feel, and Live Well

We will learn:

The real reasons we are all so busy.
How to identify the right goals and go after them strategically.
How to map out implementation by thinking in waves.

It’s not really a secret, we live in a short term world.

Back in 2000 a study came out that we had about a 12 second attention span. By 2015 it had dropped to 8 seconds on average... shorter than that of a goldfish.

A shorter attention span causes shallow information processing. Longer attention leads to better memory and sustained attention is always linked to deeper information processing.

So much of the relentless pressure in our culture pushes us toward doing what’s easy, what’s guaranteed, or what looks glamorous in the moment. So how do we shift to doing small things over time to achieve our goals—and being willing to keep at them, even when they seem pointless, boring, or hard?

And that’s what we’re talking about today.

Our guest is Dorie Clark, adjunct professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and author of multiple bestsellers.

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We will learn:

The real reasons we are all so busy.
How to identify the right goals and go after them strategically.
How to map out implementation by thinking in waves.

It’s not really a secret, we live in a short term world.

Back in 2000 a study came out that we had about a 12 second attention span. By 2015 it had dropped to 8 seconds on average... shorter than that of a goldfish.

A shorter attention span causes shallow information processing. Longer attention leads to better memory and sustained attention is always linked to deeper information processing.

And that’s what we’re talking about today.

Our guest is Dorie Clark, adjunct professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and author of multiple bestsellers.

Links from the episode:

Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/203
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Disconnect with Your Smart Phone to Reconnect with Your Life with Joe Hollier • X58

We will learn:

How smartphones are designed to work against our happiness.
How to stay connected while disconnected.
The brain benefits of boredom.

Have you noticed your phone time taking away from other important moments in your life?

I’ve always been a tech person so I have a tendency to overuse my smartphone.

Recently I made some customizations to my smartphone and my phone use immediately dropped 80% which is awesome.

I shared my customizations on social -mindfully using my computer- and I got a bunch of DMs about it so I know a lot of you are suffering from a little tech addiction yourselves.

So today we’re going to learn how to live our lives a little less plugged in. Because maybe disconnecting from the online world is what we actually need to connect with the offline world.

Our guest is Joe Hollier, multi-disciplinary artist, entrepreneur and co-founder of the Light Phone, a phone designed to be used as little as possible.

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How Our Cells Communicate • X59

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We will learn:

How all of life’s activity occurs because cells communicate.
How very different cells—bacteria and brain cells, blood cells and viruses—all speak the same language.
New discoveries on intelligence in nature.

I believe that over time, science will begin to prove spirituality.

The cool thing about science is that each new discovery is a possible foundation for a thousand other discoveries.

And these discoveries begin with a thought. A question. A desire to explore what this information could mean.

I think too often we wait for other people to tell us what’s real instead of engaging our imagination enough to ponder it ourselves.

So we end up building walls around our own mindsets with skepticism or blind obedience rather than seeking expansion and greater understanding.

Today we are opening our minds to new discoveries in science, and I’m going to challenge you to ponder what these things might mean... even if only for your own practice in contemplation.

Our guest today is Dr. Jon Lieff, nationally recognized neuropsychiatrist and foremost expert on cellular communication science.

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