Dr. Antonio Damasio talks about why emotions are critical to the decision-making process. (We talked about that recently.)
You can watch the whole interview (just over an hour long) at Fora.tv.
Tag: decisions
You’re Not Doing it Right
In his Monday Morning Memo for December 11, 2017, Roy H. Williams said that some people’s creative efforts were stifled because “every time they’ve done it in the past, a prune-faced martinet weaned on a pickle rapped them on the knuckles with a ruler, rolled his eyes and said, ‘You’re not doing it right.'”
Here are some things you believe:
- Your conscious brain makes decisions
- Those decisions are based on reason
- Emotions prevent good decision-making
- Your unconscious manages systems (breathing, circulation, digestion) but stays in the background, except maybe when you’re dreaming
- Memory is the act of accessing recordings of sights and sounds stored in your brain
- Memories are accurate, because they’re recordings
- While things can be forgotten, you can’t remember things that never happened
- Memory is a purely mental function, happening only in your brain
- If you don’t remember something it doesn’t affect you
- Willpower is how things get done
Guess how many of those are true?
Did you guess zero?
How an Orderly Life Benefits Your Art
[image: rock paper scissors]You’ve seen the common perception of “artists” — disorganized, flighty, not always entirely in touch with reality. Mess and disorder, partying ’til all hours and sleeping in, drink and drugs and bad behavior of all kinds. Artists aren’t expected to behave like “normal” people because, y’know, they’re artists.
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Truth is the more habits you institute in your life the better it is for your art. Here’s why.
Using Up Willpower
Exercise strengthens muscles. It also strengthens willpower.
Muscles get tired and have to rest.
So does willpower.
If the Box Doesn’t Fit, Don’t Wear It
[image: photo http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1426375 by Bas van den Eijkhof http://www.sxc.hu/profile/mistermast” width=”222″ height=”247″ class=”alignright size-full wp-image-3295″ style=”border: none;]Most new authors dream of getting a book deal; having a publisher contact them and say, hey, we want your book. I’ll reserve comment on the value of getting a book deal for another conversation.
Some time back a client turned down not one, but two book deals. Two publishing houses approached them and said, hey, we want your book, just sign on the dotted line.
And they thought and they thought and they said, I don’t fit in the box you’d like to put me in.
And then they said the hardest word in the language of business: … more … “If the Box Doesn’t Fit, Don’t Wear It”