Archives for the 'power' Category

Strengths or Weaknesses: Which Should You Improve? [7P Productions]

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It’s a classic question: should you work on improving your strengths, or should you work on addressing your weaknesses? It’s a question with good arguments on both sides, but the best answer is that you should focus on your strengths.
Now that you have the answer, you can now go out and be the [...]

27 May 2008 | Planning, Use What Works in Practice, power, progress, pursuit | No Comments

Are You Smart Enough to Change Your Mind? [7P Productions]

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If you made the wrong choice, are you smart enough to change your mind?
Cognitive dissonance is when something you believe is true conflicts with something that you know is true. Psychology tells us that our mind will try to fix this conflict, even if it has to make something up that’s not true. [...]

14 April 2008 | Use What Works in Practice, power, progress, pursuit | No Comments

Lessons from a Birmingham Jail [7P Productions]

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Sometimes you have to think about what would happen if you don’t act, rather than what would happen if you do.
So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love?
- Martin Luther [...]

7 April 2008 | Passion, Use What Works in Practice, peace, power, progress | No Comments

Change your battery settings for improved performance [Hack Your Day]

I didn’t actually realize thus far what a huge performance increase can be given to Windows by changing the battery settings. I should actually approach this from the other side, you can elongate battery life by a considerable amount if you take down power consumption. You can also dim the display and so on, just [...]

6 March 2008 | Windows, battery, conservation, power | No Comments