Posts Tagged “mind”

The optimism bias

By | July 31, 2012

Tali Sharot

I’ve always found interesting this topic because I believe that optimism is vital for problem solving, specially for software, but I’m also aware that been too optimistic can be a problem. That’s why, I found really interesting this video where Tali Sharot shares a new research about the optimism bias. I wrote in my Moleskine: [...]

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Mis primeros pasos en salsa

By | July 24, 2012

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El año pasado, a pesar de que siempre estuve peleado con el baile, decidí tomar un curso de salsa cubana. Debo confesar que fue una decisión complicada, porque no me gustaba la salsa y no estaba seguro si tenía talento para bailar. Sin embargo, mi motivación era probar algo nuevo y debo decir que los [...]

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My first salsa steps

By | July 24, 2012

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The last year, despite I’ve always thought that dancing was not for me, I decided to take a cuban salsa classes. It was a complicated decision because I didn’t like salsa and I didn’t feel confident with my dancing skills. However, my motivation was trying something new and I may say, the results were far beyond [...]

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Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale

By | February 28, 2010

This video is from World Science Festival 2009. I’ve found it in TED as Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music. Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale

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Mapas Mentales

By | October 4, 2009

¿Qué son los mapas mentales? Es una técnica que busca potenciar la forma de trabajo que tiene nuestro cerebro, a través del uso de palabras o imágenes relacionadas entre si con lineas. Estos diagramas son más fáciles de recordar que lineas de texto, es más puede incluso estimular nuestro cerebro a encontrar otros conceptos y [...]

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