Posts tagged “attention”
Optimal Concentration: Dedicated Sessions Are Your Success Recipe
A Zettelkasten session has the following form: the warm-up phase, the productive phase, the busy but unproductive phase. When we sit down at the Zettelkasten, we need a while to reach operating temperature. To do this, we need to activate our brain, orient ourselves within the Zettelkasten, and engage the most important areas of our memory, among other tasks.
The Tools That Change Us (And the Choice to Change Back)
Dear Zettlers, The last newsletter went viral. I was lucky in striking a chord that is played quite regularly. The chord is the sound of the attack on our minds. To each topic, there is a fundamental existential layer that is below layers of pragmatics and other layers.
Some Q&A on the Zettelkasten Method and Student Life
@diogenes, a student of philosophy, psychology and history in Vienna, asked some questions on the forum. I’d like to elaborate a bit on that. There will be specific use cases for the Zettelkasten Method. The method itself is a meta method of knowledge work. It translates what we understand of knowledge acquisition into basic actions that can be incorporated into any (knowledge work) workflow. Here, I will show a couple of applications to a more specific case.