…pay attention to stuff that is important. Not that which is urgent.
This is a wonderfully illustrated answer that goes in a lot more detail.
Author: Akshat Rathi
Akshat Rathi is a senior reporter for Bloomberg News. He has previously worked at Quartz, The Economist and The Conversation. His writing has appeared in Nature, The Guardian and The Hindu. He has a PhD in chemistry from Oxford University and a BTech in chemical engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai.
How to get creative
From the BBC Horizon programme:
- Do something mundane (to turn off the frontal lobe and allow new ideas to flow more freely)
- Do something unexpected (that does not need to be connected to the task you want to get creative at, to help your brain connect new ideas).
What surgeons learnt from firemen, F1 pit crew and airplane pilots
From Kevin Fong’s BBC Horizon programme:
- Multi-tasking comes at an expense.
- Use checklists to reduce human errors
- In a team know who is responsible, at all times.
- When in emergency, follow rule 2.
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