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You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Kaizen, the Japanese Practice of Continuous Improvement, Can Help You Reach All Your Goals. Here's How - Inc.com    You have big, ambitious goals and even bigger dreams. But how do you get from where you are now to making those dreams come true? The answer may surprise you: By aiming for just 1 percent improvement. This counterintuitive insight comes from an essay AllTopStartups founder Thomas Oppong published on Medium and Quartz that's gotten lots of attention on social media lately. In it, he argues for using the practice of Kaizen, or continuous improvement, which was invented in the Depression-era U.S. and perfected at Toyota in Japan. But instead of using it only to continuously improve our workplaces or our jobs, he suggests Kaizen as a powerful approach for improving ourselves. Why is Kaizen so effective as a means of personal improvement? To answer that question, consider the people you know with big ambitions. If they're anything like the people I know, they take one of two approaches. One group loves to talk about the impressive things they plan to accomplish: Start a company, run a marathon, lose 50 pounds, write a book. They're long on visions of a better future but short on details about how to get from here to there. Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � The true story of the fake unboxed aliens is wilder than actual aliens - Vox    All the greed, fraud, centuries of racism, and deteriorated llama skulls behind Mexico’s unboxed aliens. The internet artist Zardulu — creator of Pizza Rat — has claimed that “the creation and perpetuation of myths is art of the highest form.” Humans create such grand fakes, Zardulu argues, as a way of keeping the world weird and wondrous. But what happens when such pursuits of wonder collide with shameless opportunism and a willingness to exploit an era of misinformation — even if it means disrespecting and distorting the past? Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � How to Take Better Notes for Information Retention - Inc.com    You're sitting in an important meeting with a client, a professional workshop that you've paid a lot of money for, or an MBA class. You want to absorb as much of the information you're getting as you possibly can. Is there a way to take notes that will help you both remember more information and be able to bring back as much as possible when you read over your notes later on? If you're anything like me, you may find this advice contradictory. After all, I can more or less capture everything someone says when typing on a computer keyboard and much less if I'm writing longhand, even when I'm using abbreviations, such as "bsns" for business and "mgt" for management.  But, Kiewra explains, there are two reasons that taking notes on paper is better than taking notes on a laptop. The first is that students who are using a computer are much more likely to multitask, checking email, doing other homework or even playing video games whenever they get bored during a lecture. (Yup, I've done that.) The second reason is that my tendency to write down everything someone says, what Kiewra calls verbatim notes, may be useful when I'm doing interviews, but it's not the best way to absorb information. For one thing, it's easy to miss visual information, such as charts and graphs. For another, research shows that verbatim notes are associated with "shallow, non-meaningful learning," he writes. "Because longhand notes are qualitatively better than laptop notes, reviewing them leads to higher achievement than reviewing laptop notes." Continued here

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