Inner voice

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/oct/25/the-last-great-mystery-of-the-mind-meet-the-people-who-have-unusual-or-non-existent-inner-voices?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Title: The last great mystery of the mind: meet the people who have unusual – or non-existent – inner voices

Topic: Talking about what causes the inner voice and a variety of forms people experiencing it.

Highlights :

* What happens to a person's inner voice if he was born deaf? Would he see sign language? What if he has not yet received any education on sign language? Would he see lips moving? People are experiencing all these forms.

* There are different levels of noise pollution in people's head ranging from constant arguments to no voice at all.

* Scientists have hypothesized the reason for inner voice to exist is mind's prediction capability. They believe that brain tries to predict consequences of each action before even doing it, empowering the body with a correction mechanism. Now assume it predicts the words coming out of your mouth, without actually saying them. Result? Inner voice!

* Why different forms of inner voice are observed is yet to be answered.

 

Rate: 5/5

 

Comment:

I nominate this blog post for the "best blog post I've read so far, this week prize" as it was the best blog post I've read so far this week. It motivated me to read more guardian content. Its writing style was both artistic, inspiring, and fun, making it a litte challenging for me to understand it at the first pass.

Workplace productivity

New blog post!

Url: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mindless-work-habits-productivity_l_6176df26e4b066de4f65eed0?utm_source=pocket_discover

Title: 7 Mindless Habits That Are Making You Unproductive At Work

Highlights:

* You constantly check your personal phone when there is a lull.

* You do unrelated tasks that will “only take a second.”

* You open too many tabs on your browser

* You impulsively check Slack and other work chat platforms.

* You start solving problems right away, before determining if they’re actually your problems to solve.

* You schedule unnecessary meetings. (emphasized as the most important distraction)

 

Rate: 3.8/5

Meta-Cognition

New article (let's call it blog post, hereafter) read:

Link: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-metacognition-thinking-about-thinking-can-improve-the-mental-health-crisis?utm_source=pocket_discover

Title: How Metacognition—Thinking About Thinking—Can Improve the Mental-Health Crisis.

Topic: About a field of study called Metacognition

Highlights:

* we are facing a mental crisis due to "ancient brains in a high-tech world". Considering the evolutionary process to form this organ, it is not surprising to call it ancient.

Rate: 1/5

Build a habit

Due to some changes in my life, I preferred to temporarily (or maybe permanently) switch to English language while blogging. Moreover, I will read a random article on a more random topic once in a while and note it down, here. Some comments might be added and might not.

Today's stuff:

Link: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20211109-what-we-get-wrong-about-conversations?utm_source=pocket_discover

Title: The conversational habits that build better connections

Topic: title is pretty suggestive

Highlights:

* “There is no such thing as conversation,” the novelist and literary critic Rebecca West famously wrote in her collection of stories, The Harsh Voice. “It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.”

* Ask questions

* Beware empathy

* Familiar topics are favored over novel ones

* It's ok to go deep

* Honesty proved to be much better than kindness