I got a chuckle out of your reference to dividing by zero. Its food for thought though. The Taoist’s and Zen Buddhists all have a philosophy of “non-doing”. Lao Tzu said part of being a master is doing nothing yet getting everything done. That is a paraphrase but it sure helps your mind think of possible solutions.

Cheers,
Jeremy

My best productivity tip – do nothing. Productivity = amount produced / amount invested – if you do nothing you invest nothing and thus your productivity is infinite – oh how I love dividing by 0.

Thanks,
Bill

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It’s funny that you mention this now because just TODAY I was noticing how my calculation skills have significantly decreased since I’ve stopped playing online poker.

About a month ago I gave it up entirely, but when I did play I was super quick at doing calculations in my head. Nowadays I seem to be using my writing talents and I’m experiencing a noticeable increase in the flow of my writing.

Neat stuff. You gotta use it, or you’re gonna lose it.

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@ Jack & Alex – I half agree and half disagree with you guys. I think those are both valid points. As for school, yes you have to learn a lot of stuff you might not use later in life. The key to learning it though is still to apply it right away (taking a test by the end of the week instead of a mid-term or final). Our minds have a vast capacity for learning.As for learning style I think it does apply but only for certain situations. For instance, someone with a visual learning capacity has to try real hard to learn by speaking or by hearing music. That doesn’t mean applying it sooner doesn’t help. It certainly does.I guess what I was trying to get across was that we can’t simply pass over information and expect to learn it and absorb it without application soon after the fact. If I read a whole book about personal development and don’t apply any of it what have I actually learned? I have to reread it to get the most out of it. Which takes time. Better to read it in small chunks and apply it right away then to read the whole thing and try to recall it at a later point in time.Does that make sense?Cheers,Jeremy

I’m a visual and kinesthetic learner, so yes I need to put things into practice, but if learning comes from just hearing, it’s gone. This makes learning language very difficult for me (I moved to Spain last year from Canada) as often I need to see words written and to say them before I understand what people are saying to me.

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I guess the only problem with this is that sometimes you don’t know what you will use and what you won’t. If I had known what I would need to use and what I wouldn’t when I was in school, I would have ignored about 80% of the material! Ignored it and made room for the truly valuable knowledge. (I don’t know if our brains have specific capacity or if it is even possible to make room, lol.)

This post made me think of the hundreds of songs I have learned on guitar… and the hundreds I have forgotten. If I don’t revisit certain songs often enough, they escape my mind entirely. Pretty frustrating, as I am sure you know.

Still waiting to see what my masterpiece might be, I hope I have one in this life

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