Let’s get in balance!
I keep coming back to this conundrum.
We know that using sustained attention (as mindfulness) to be fully present with ourselves and our situation or (as encounter) to be fully present with another person are good both for us and those around us, yet there is no systematic effort to ensure that students achieve the right balance between focused attention and sustained attention.
Between the ability to go into flow, and the ability to have deep and reciprocal relationships with themselves and their classmates (and anyone else).
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The future is imminent!
I have been reading ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ by Shoshana Zuboff of Harvard Business School. It is a quite extraordinary, and compelling, description of what has been happening in the digital world and explains all the apparently odd and inconsistent behaviours that we see from the likes of Google and Facebook.
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Look up!
A part of brain plasticity is our capacity to continue to grow new neurons (neurogenesis) and new synapses (synaptogenesis) throughout life. As we have mentioned before, this occurs most strongly when we are practicing our strengths, developing them further.
However, neurogenesis also occurs when we walk.
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Winding down the red!
People often ask: is the red brain useful at all?
My response is that it is not useful as the blue brain has access to all the brain’s resources such that self-limiting simply reduces our capability to act effectively in the world.
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