What’s the trick to being successful at whatever you want to do? Grit:
Although the idea itself isn’t new – “Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration,” Thomas Edison famously remarked – the researchers are quick to point out that grit isn’t simply about the willingness to work hard. Instead, it’s about setting a specific long-term goal and doing whatever it takes until the goal has been reached. It’s always much easier to give up, but people with grit can keep going.
In other words, you have to figure out what you want, and then stick with it. It’s about hard work and focus.
Traitor Mouse!
I don’t have a cat, but I’ve definitely noticed that sometimes when cats want something they make noises that sound an awful lot like a crying baby.
And sure enough, scientists have determined that when cats want something – like food – they basically imitate the crying of human babies. That’s pretty clever, because most humans really, really don’t like the sound of a crying baby, so they respond to it.
This article says it’s a “surprise” that “daydreaming really works the brain”, rather than being “a sign of laziness”.
But is it really a surprise? Isn’t the problem with daydreaming usually that it’s really distracting? I always just figured it was distracting because it takes up so much of your brain’s attention. This is why doodling can actually help you pay attention in class: it may be a little distracting to doodle, but it keeps you from doing something even more distracting, like daydreaming.
