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Disruptors and curious minds! On this week's episode of Thinking On Paper we explore the impact technology has on your brain. And here is a spoiler - it's not good. It actually shrinks your brain. Are you on your phone right now? Have you asked yourself what it might be doing to your brain? How is it triggering dopamine, interacting with cortisol and affecting your focus, concentration, mental capacity and memory skills? What about your kids? What about your relationships? How is the train wreck of technology pushing your crocodile brain beyond its evolution? If you've ever wondered what effect technology is having on your brain as you battle your dopamine addiction, crave a world free of notifications and distraction where you can work and focus and live in the present, then this episode might change your relationship with your devices. Dr. Larry Rosen is a professor of Psychology and the author of Me, MySpace, and I: Parenting the Net Generation and TechnoStress: Coping with Technology @ Work @ Home @ Play.  He has over 25 years of research experience on the impact of technology among children, adolescents, young adults, parents, school teachers, and business people in more than 30 countries. Please Enjoy The Show! ===================== TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Disruptors and Curious minds 1:52 Our Sponsors Wripple 2:46 Dr Larry Rosen 3:11 What Do Cortisol & Dopamine Do To Your Brain 6:23 What happens To Your brain on Social Media 11:36 Anxiety & Brain Productivity 14:00 Measuring The Energy Notifications Take From Your Brain 16:58 Why Does Your Cortex Thin? 20:52 Breaking Bad Habits! 26:36 Focusing Attention 31:50 The Role Of Your Neurons 36:09 Dopamine & Game Addiction 41:44 Next Generation Anxiety & Eye Contact 45:10 Why Kids Use Phones & Strategies To Lower Use 49:00 Further Reading On Brain Health ================================ 🎧 Listen Now & Enjoy the Show! 👉 Sponsors: ⁠www.wripple.com⁠ 👉 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmIrjS0l0JY&t=689s 🔗 Follow Mark And Jeremy: Join the Book Club: ⁠Thinking on Paper⁠ Connect with Mark: ⁠Mark Fielding⁠ Connect with Jeremy: ⁠Jeremy Gilbertson⁠

Disruptors and curious minds! Welcome to the Thinking on Paper book club, where we explore the insights, frameworks, strategies and secrets of books that will improve your thinking, elevate your leadership, give you courage and confidence and help you think clearer. This week we're reading part 5 of Clear Thinking by Farnam Street Founder Shane Parrish. The final part of our book club. And it gets deep. It starts with Marcus Aurelius and goes into the heart of what matters. Because if you've followed parts 1-4 of this book club, we have a wake up call for you. None of the decisions and choices you make matter one bit if you don't know what you really want, if you are not aware of what's really important in life. Here's some of the things we speak about this week: - What is Phronesis - the wisdom of knowing how to order your life to achieve the best results. - The wisdom of age - Memento Mori - what it is and a thought experiment on how to use it. - Comparison is the thief of joy. - What you can learn from Ebenezer scrooge - Possessions And much more... ====================================== TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Welcome To Book Club 1:00 Turn Hindsight Into Foresight 3:00 What Are Good Decisions? 5:58 How To Order Your Life For Best Results? 8:34 The Wisdom Of Old Age 10:48 Have Dinner & Jazz Fun 14:30 What I Liked About Clear Thinking By Shane Parrish 16:26 The New Happy 19:38 Memento Mori 22:13 Seneca And Physical Health 24:29 Regret As A Lack Of Imagination Why are we reading Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish? Some call the book a must read for intentional living and decision making. All we know is that in the quest for personal and professional growth and in the interests of the Nexus Thinkers, generalists and readers of Thinking On Paper, we know this book can change lives, careers, relationships and mindsets. Here’s what you can expect: 🧠 You'll Unlock Your Cognitive Potential: Parrish provides practical tools to harness the power of your mind and make better decisions. We love frameworks and strategies. Universal Truths, Actionable insight. 🧠 You'll Navigate Life with Intention: Oh those defaults! Be gone! The ego default, the social default, the inertia default and the emotion default. Clear thinking will help you recognise these biological defaults and give you the skills to override them. 🧠 You'll Enhance Decision-Making: What are you going to do with all this clear thinking? We’ll unpack the reality of better decision making at work, home and everywhere else you need to engage thinking before you jump head first into the fire. 🧠 You'll Override Your Mental Models: Parrish uses engaging narratives and stories to explain the mental models that hamper your progress, curtail your fun and put a million spanners in your works in progress! Recency bias, Action Bias, the Affect Heuristic, Ambiguity Effect, Anchoring Bias, Attentional Bias, Authority Bias, Availability Heuristic and the Bandwagon Effect. You’ll learn how to notice them and send them packing. 👉 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX8TrQEpFLY&t=57s 🔗 Follow Mark And Jeremy: Join the Book Club:⁠ ⁠Thinking on Paper⁠⁠ Connect with Mark:⁠ ⁠Mark Fielding⁠⁠ Connect with Jeremy:⁠ ⁠Jeremy Gilbertson⁠⁠ #bookclub #shaneparrish #clearthinking #bookcommunity #stoicism #stoicmindset #farnamstreet

Disruptors and curious minds! Welcome to the Thinking on Paper book club, where we explore the insights, frameworks, strategies and secrets of books that will improve your thinking, elevate your leadership, give you courage and confidence and help you think clearer. This week we're reading part 4 of Clear Thinking by Farnam Street Founder Shane Parrish. It's nearly 100 pages of insight, strategies and signals for better decision making. The decision is the outcome of the process. There are 4 stages - 1. Defining the problem. 2. Exploring possible solutions 3. Evaluating the options 4. executing the best one "When the stakes are low, inaction hurts you more than speed. The opposite is true when the stakes are high." TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Clear Thinking By Shane Parrish 0:50 The Decision Making Process 2:57 Rules And Safeguards 3:37 When The Stakes Are Low 5:36 Define The Problem 14:04 Get Real, Get With Reality 17:39 Are You A Chef Or Line Cook? 21:30 Opportunity Cost 28:20 Define The Most Important Part 30:15 Margins Of Safety ============================= Why are we reading Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish? Some call the book a must read for intentional living and decision making. All we know is that in the quest for personal and professional growth and in the interests of the Nexus Thinkers, generalists and readers of Thinking On Paper, we know this book can change lives, careers, relationships and mindsets. Here’s what you can expect: 🧠 You'll Unlock Your Cognitive Potential: Parrish provides practical tools to harness the power of your mind and make better decisions. We love frameworks and strategies. Universal Truths, Actionable insight. 🧠 You'll Navigate Life with Intention: Oh those defaults! Be gone! The ego default, the social default, the inertia default and the emotion default. Clear thinking will help you recognise these biological defaults and give you the skills to override them. 🧠 You'll Enhance Decision-Making: What are you going to do with all this clear thinking? We’ll unpack the reality of better decision making at work, home and everywhere else you need to engage thinking before you jump head first into the fire. 🧠 You'll Override Your Mental Models: Parrish uses engaging narratives and stories to explain the mental models that hamper your progress, curtail your fun and put a million spanners in your works in progress! Recency bias, Action Bias, the Affect Heuristic, Ambiguity Effect, Anchoring Bias, Attentional Bias, Authority Bias, Availability Heuristic and the Bandwagon Effect. You’ll learn how to notice them and send them packing. 👉 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULxMGbmZKAo&t=1807s 🔗 Follow Mark And Jeremy: Join the Book Club:⁠ ⁠Thinking on Paper⁠⁠ Connect with Mark:⁠ ⁠Mark Fielding⁠⁠ Connect with Jeremy:⁠ ⁠Jeremy Gilbertson⁠⁠ #books #bookclubs #shaneparrishclearthinking #shaneparrish #bookcommunity

Disruptors and curious minds! Welcome to the Thinking on Paper book club. This week we're reading part 3 of Clear Thinking, by Farnam Street Founder Shane Parrish. "Part of taking command of your life is controlling the things you can. Another part is managing the things you can't - your vulnerabilities, or weaknesses." TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Welcome To Book Club 0:39 Why Small Decisions Matter 3:32 Your Environments Affect Your Focus 5:16 Action And Consequence 8:18 Productive Self-Discourse 11:40 Hungry, Lonely, Angry, Tired 15:00 The Film Crew Strategy 17:36 Cognitive Load & Resistance ========================= Why are we reading Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish? Some call the book a must read for intentional living and decision making. All we know is that in the quest for personal and professional growth and in the interests of the Nexus Thinkers, generalists and readers of Thinking On Paper, we know this book can change lives, careers, relationships and mindsets. Here’s what you can expect: 🧠 You'll Unlock Your Cognitive Potential: Parrish provides practical tools to harness the power of your mind and make better decisions. We love frameworks and strategies. Universal Truths, Actionable insight. 🧠 You'll Navigate Life with Intention: Oh those defaults! Be gone! The ego default, the social default, the inertia default and the emotion default. Clear thinking will help you recognise these biological defaults and give you the skills to override them. 🧠 You'll Enhance Decision-Making: What are you going to do with all this clear thinking? We’ll unpack the reality of better decision making at work, home and everywhere else you need to engage thinking before you jump head first into the fire. 🧠 You'll Override Your Mental Models: Parrish uses engaging narratives and stories to explain the mental models that hamper your progress, curtail your fun and put a million spanners in your works in progress! Recency bias, Action Bias, the Affect Heuristic, Ambiguity Effect, Anchoring Bias, Attentional Bias, Authority Bias, Availability Heuristic and the Bandwagon Effect. You’ll learn how to notice them and send them packing. 👉 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX7vCKDbIU8&t=891s 🔗 Follow Mark And Jeremy: Join the Book Club:⁠ ⁠Thinking on Paper⁠⁠ Connect with Mark:⁠ ⁠Mark Fielding⁠⁠ Connect with Jeremy:⁠ ⁠Jeremy Gilbertson⁠⁠ #shaneparrish #clearthinking #strategy #thinking #mindset #thinkingonpaper

Disruptors and curious minds! Welcome to the Thinking on Paper book club. This week we're building our own personal board of directors as outlined by Farnam Street Founder Shane Parrish in Clear Thinking. We're going to take the great minds of business, music, writing and thinking and use them to hold ourselves accountable. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Welcome To Book Club 1:06 Jeremy On Expecting More Of Yourself 5:06 Automatic Rules To Protect Creativity 8:14 Kind V Nice 11:41 Changing Your Mind 15:09 My Board Of Thinking Directors 17:30 Thinking Like Bob Marley 21:05 Stoicism ========================= Why are we reading Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish? Some call the book a must read for intentional living and decision making. All we know is that in the quest for personal and professional growth and in the interests of the Nexus Thinkers, generalists and readers of Thinking On Paper, we know this book can change lives, careers, relationships and mindsets. Here’s what you can expect: 🧠 You'll Unlock Your Cognitive Potential: Parrish provides practical tools to harness the power of your mind and make better decisions. We love frameworks and strategies. Universal Truths, Actionable insight. 🧠 You'll Navigate Life with Intention: Oh those defaults! Be gone! The ego default, the social default, the inertia default and the emotion default. Clear thinking will help you recognise these biological defaults and give you the skills to override them. 🧠 You'll Enhance Decision-Making: What are you going to do with all this clear thinking? We’ll unpack the reality of better decision making at work, home and everywhere else you need to engage thinking before you jump head first into the fire. 🧠 You'll Override Your Mental Models: Parrish uses engaging narratives and stories to explain the mental models that hamper your progress, curtail your fun and put a million spanners in your works in progress! Recency bias, Action Bias, the Affect Heuristic, Ambiguity Effect, Anchoring Bias, Attentional Bias, Authority Bias, Availability Heuristic and the Bandwagon Effect. You’ll learn how to notice them and send them packing.

Disruptors and Curious minds, Welcome to the Thinking On Paper Book Club! This month we’re reading Clear Thinking, by Farnam Street founder and The Knowledge Project host Shane Parrish. This is the book that you need if you doubt your decisions, or fear making mistakes, or just want to think clearer about your finances, investments, relationships, friendships and business. This week we explore: - How to hold space to think - The inertia default and how it's holding you back - The social default, and how that is holding you back - Clear thinking in ordinary moments And much more... ================== TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Welcome To Book Club 0:58 Why Are We Reading Clear Thinking 2:17 Holding Space For Clear Thinking 3:48 How Are You Positioned To Think? 7:12 Parenting Clearly (The Ego Default) 10:40 Success Is Made In Ordinary Moments 14:53 The Inertia Default 16:04 The Social Default 22:21 Clear Thinking Is A Lever 24:00 Awareness Isn't Enough ========================= Why are we reading Clear Thinking? Some call the book a must read for intentional living and decision making. All we know is that in the quest for personal and professional growth and in the interests of the Nexus Thinkers, generalists and readers of Thinking On Paper, we know this book can change lives, careers, relationships and mindsets. Here’s what you can expect: 🧠 You'll Unlock Your Cognitive Potential: Parrish provides practical tools to harness the power of your mind and make better decisions. We love frameworks and strategies. Universal Truths, Actionable insight. 🧠 You'll Navigate Life with Intention: Oh those defaults! Be gone! The ego default, the social default, the inertia default and the emotion default. Clear thinking will help you recognise these biological defaults and give you the skills to override them. 🧠 You'll Enhance Decision-Making: What are you going to do with all this clear thinking? We’ll unpack the reality of better decision making at work, home and everywhere else you need to engage thinking before you jump head first into the fire. 🧠 You'll Override Your Mental Models: Parrish uses engaging narratives and stories to explain the mental models that hamper your progress, curtail your fun and put a million spanners in your works in progress! 🧠 Recency bias, Action Bias, the Affect Heuristic, Ambiguity Effect, Anchoring Bias, Attentional Bias, Authority Bias, Availability Heuristic and the Bandwagon Effect. You’ll learn how to notice them and send them packing. - - - - - - - - - - - - About Thinking On Paper: Jeremy is a futurist, writer, and nexus thinker . He loves books. Mark is a creative writer, futurist thinker and trainee Nexus thinker. He loves books too. #bookclub #clearthinking #shaneparrish #booktube #bookreviews

Disruptors and curious minds! Today's show is all about AI, education and behavioural design. What is behavioural design? Can AI help you learn, sharpen your reasoning, change your behaviours? Can AI boost your performance or analyse the cognitive processes needed to make decisions and solve problems? Justin Germishuys is an experienced learning and behaviour designer using AI tools to enhance reasoning and decision-making. He’s the founder of Germinotion. We’ll be talking about Ethical behaviour design, conceptual analysis and the AI tools people can use to reason, solve problems, and make decisions. We'll unpack educational design and how you can use AI to augment your thinking. Please Enjoy The Show! ===================== Quotes From The Show "How do we design things that help people behave in desirable ways." "The goal is to be ethical." "People confuse behavioural design with nudging." "Recognising someone has confirmation bias, it's useful to think about how framing effects influence how people receive messages." "How do you chunk content for cognitive load?" "AI reasoning support." "Human Being are cognitively limited. We don't make good decisions." "Ai Can help to supplement reasoning." "AI Is good at divergent thinking and evaluations." "Is ai creative? That's a semantic issue." "AI expands our ontologies." "Extended Mind Hypothesis means our minds are not contained in our skulls." ============================== Timestamps 0:00 Disruptors and curious minds 2:04 Our Sponsors Wripple 2:44 Our Guest Justin Germishuys 3:26 What Is Behavioural Design? 6:04 Nudge Theory 8:15 How Can Behavioural Design Improve Education 11:53 Human Biases & Heuristics 16:16 How Important Is Environment In Design? 20:49 Affordances 21:34 Artificial Intelligence To Augment Behavioural Design 28:38 AI A A Reasoning Support Tool 31:34 Theory Of Mind 35:17 Human + AI 37:33 Resources For Behavioural Design 39:51 Natural Born Cyborgs & Extended Mind Hypothesis 43:20 Augmented Humans 44:34 How Should Children Be Using AI? 48:55 Final Thoughts ============================== 🎧 Listen Now & Enjoy the Show! 👉 Sponsors: ⁠www.wripple.com⁠ 👉 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8WnnmT4wlM&t=1536s 🔗 Follow Mark And Jeremy: Join the Book Club: ⁠Thinking on Paper⁠ Connect with Mark: ⁠Mark Fielding⁠ Connect with Jeremy: ⁠Jeremy Gilbertson⁠ #behaviour #artificalintelligence #ai #aihacks #howtobesmarter #web3 #aitools #clearthinking

Welcome to the Thinking On Paper Book Club. This week we're reading chapter seven of The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman. And we ask: What Is Human Error In Design? And does it really kill people. Buy on amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyda... Timestamps 0:00 Welcome to Book Club 1:09 The realities of the world Stop Innovation 2:16 Tech For Tech's Sake And How Brands Innovate 5:18 Music Analogies For Better Design 8:18 Books Are The Best Technology 9:16 Distributors Are The Real Customers 11:30 How Long Does It Take To Develop a Product? 14:51 AI Will Change The Game 16:30 Clear Thinking 18:55 Product Teams ====================== Why are we reading this book? Have you’ve ever wondered why your dishwasher won’t stop beeping? Or why your favourite website is so intuitive, yet Amazon is a clunky cesspit of UX? Why do you walk into glass doors? Why do you love some of your technology, but can’t stand your new iPhone? The answer is design. Good design, and bad design. And this is the book that explains the difference. In a world saturated with AI created content, human thought is more important and powerful than ever. But reading books isn’t enough. You have to read the right books: books which have stood the test of time; books applicable across domains; books that are as relevant today as they will be in ten, fifty, a hundred years time. At least that’s what we think. Which is why our next book was first published in 1988. It’s a story of how people interact with technology. The good, the bad and the ugly of UX and design. What works and what doesn’t. Why it works and the frameworks and mental models that will help you improve your own designs, whatever they may be. Storytelling, design constraints, human error, culture, competitive forces, launching a new product, complexity, human-centred design. You’ll never look at your kettle or a web page in the same way again. Reviews of this book "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman is a timeless classic that has been reshaping the way people think about design since its publication in 1988. The book is a fascinating exploration of the ways in which everyday objects are designed, and how those designs can either help or hinder the people who use them." "The Design of Everyday Things" is one of the most amazing books I have ever read. It explores the design of everyday things through the lens of human psychology. Not only that, ill-designed objects stir frustration into their users, but they can also lead to fatal errors." Read more - https://www.blinkist.com/en/books/the... - - - - - - - - - - - - 🎧 Listen Now & Enjoy the Show! 👉 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3G4OQuNUZg&t=558s 🔗 Follow Mark And Jeremy: Join the Book Club: ⁠Thinking on Paper⁠ Connect with Mark: ⁠Mark Fielding⁠ Connect with Jeremy: ⁠Jeremy Gilbertson⁠ #bookclub #booktube #bookcommunity #books #thedesignofeverydaythings #emergingtechnologies #designbooks #booklovers #booktube #booktok

Disruptors and Curious minds! Welcome to the Thinking On Paper Book Club. This week we're reading chapter six of The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman. And we ask: Why should you never solve the problem you are given... Buy on amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyda... =========================== Timestamps 0:00 Welcome to Book Club 1:07 Why Nasa Read This Book 1:31 Creativity And Divergent Thinking 5:46 The Convergent Button Of Design 9:00 Life As A Social Phenomenon 12:37 Cross-Cultural Design Skills 16:57 Testing Prototypes And Why 18:53 The Real Goals Of Design Aren't What You Think 22:37 Making Something From Nothing 26:08 The Next Book Club ================================= Why are we reading this book in book club? Have you’ve ever wondered why your dishwasher won’t stop beeping? Or why your favourite website is so intuitive, yet Amazon is a clunky cesspit of UX? Why do you walk into glass doors? Why do you love some of your technology, but can’t stand your new iPhone? The answer is design. Good design, and bad design. And this is the book that explains the difference. In a world saturated with AI created content, human thought is more important and powerful than ever. But reading books isn’t enough. You have to read the right books: books which have stood the test of time; books applicable across domains; books that are as relevant today as they will be in ten, fifty, a hundred years time. At least that’s what we think. Which is why our next book was first published in 1988. It’s a story of how people interact with technology. The good, the bad and the ugly of UX and design. What works and what doesn’t. Why it works and the frameworks and mental models that will help you improve your own designs, whatever they may be. Storytelling, design constraints, human error, culture, competitive forces, launching a new product, complexity, human-centred design. You’ll never look at your kettle or a web page in the same way again. Reviews of this book "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman is a timeless classic that has been reshaping the way people think about design since its publication in 1988. The book is a fascinating exploration of the ways in which everyday objects are designed, and how those designs can either help or hinder the people who use them." "The Design of Everyday Things" is one of the most amazing books I have ever read. It explores the design of everyday things through the lens of human psychology. Not only that, ill-designed objects stir frustration into their users, but they can also lead to fatal errors." Read more - https://www.blinkist.com/en/books/the... - - - - - - - - - - - - 👉 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2fvL4cvwpg&t=593s 🔗 Follow Mark And Jeremy: Join the Book Club: ⁠Thinking on Paper⁠ Connect with Mark: ⁠Mark Fielding⁠ Connect with Jeremy: ⁠Jeremy Gilbertson⁠ #bookclub #booktube #bookcommunity #books #thedesignofeverydaythings #emergingtechnologies #designbooks #booklovers #booktube #booktok

Disruptors and curious minds! What is the future of artificial intelligence? How will it impact geoengineering, smart cities, and the next generation of digital natives? What about neural links, brain hacking, VR and blockchain? How are brands, fortune 500 companies and small business thinking, researching and strategizing for an uncertain future? In this episode we talk with Alexandra Whittington, a futurist writer and speaker who explores the future of humanity and society. She is a member of the Future of Business team at TCS and a former Lecturer on Foresight at the University of Houston. Alexandra has co-authored and co-edited several books on the future, including A Very Human Future, Aftershocks and Opportunities, and The Future Reinvented. Futurists (sometimes called futurologists, foresight practitioners and horizon scanners) are all job descriptions for the thinkers, writers and researchers who question what our collective futures might be and the impact emerging technologies will have on business, culture and the human condition. This is an insightful and actionable episode for anyone interested in futurism and how futurists think and work. Alexandra tells us how she became a futurist, how she researches and writes about the future, and what are the key trends and scenarios for 2024. She also shares her insights on how AI will affect geoengineering, smart cities, and the next generation of digital natives, and what are the challenges and opportunities for businesses and brands. Please Enjoy The Show! ================================================ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Disruptors & Curious Minds 2:17 Our Sponsors Wripple 2:46 Futurist Alexandra Whittington 3:44 What Is A Futurist? 8:12 How To Become A Futurist 9:39 How Has Teaching Futurism Changed? 13:09 Futurists Don't Predict The Future 18:24 How To Research Emerging Technology 22:37 Macro V Micro Trends & Signals 28:52 How Futurists Help Companies 32:05 How Companies Can Start With Futurism 34:30 Our Business Is On The Ropes 36:04 How Do You Trust Technology? 39:56 A Question For Our Next Guest 41:00 Book Recommendations 👇👇👇 🔥 Check out Alexandra Whittington’s website and buy here books - https://fastfuture.com/FFP-authors/alexandra-whittington/ Alexandra's Book Recommendation - Guns, Germs and Steel - https://dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/books/guns-germs-and-steel/ ================================================== 👉 Sponsors: ⁠www.wripple.com⁠ 👉 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX7vCKDbIU8&t=891s 🔗 Follow Mark And Jeremy: Join the Book Club: ⁠Thinking on Paper⁠ Connect with Mark: ⁠Mark Fielding⁠ Connect with Jeremy: ⁠Jeremy Gilbertson⁠ #futurism #signals #emergingtechnologies #ai #web3 #technology #blockchainpodcast