Comments on: Close Your Eyes And See Bigger Picture

By: 3 Easy Steps To Become A Superhero — Practice This

3 Easy Steps To Become A Superhero — Practice This — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:38:37 +0000

[...] blog readers as a customer. Think of your kids as a customers. What do I really want it to be like? Close Your Eyes And See Bigger Picture, visualize it, create your vision. Put the customer in the center. Can you see it? No? Try again. [...]

By: State of Mind | Learn This | Learn This

State of Mind | Learn This | Learn This — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:18:26 +0000

[...] possible. Close your eyes if it helps to really visualize it in your mind. There is an interesting article on Practice This about closing your eyes to see more which is about [...]

By: alik levin

alik levin — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:03:57 +0000

Let them laugh. He who laughs last, laughs best – I bet you already know that. If it gets you results no one will laugh at this. Results are louder than words.

BTW, I never make serious decision at night – I sleep over it, just like you. This technique never let me down.

Thanks for sharing your practice.

By: bORiS

bORiS — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:01:07 +0000

Follow Rambam and get far (into the DOS:))
I personally adopted the following technique: if the things are going hard, I just going to sleep, not dreaming (or, not remember what I dreamed about) but the next morning have a hint or even solution. I’ll rty your practice, but afraid people will joke, you know…

By: Mike King

Mike King — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:38:33 +0000

Good point alik, it is definitely a combination of things that work for any individual. I guess it also depends on what you’re working to accomplish, like you said, some things are simply needing your attention in a specific way.

By: alik levin

alik levin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:28:03 +0000

Mike, great additions!
May I combine it all as follows?
- Remove visual distractions by closing your eyes (visual)
- Remove audio distractions by listening music (audible)
- Ignite your imagination and see a bigger picture, find the solution in your mind
- test it in practice (kinesthetic)

I think it is not OR or AND rather mix and match. The key is freeing your resources (mind, imagination) to allocate it to important tasks. For example you and I cannot close our eyes when writing another program but we can listen to the music that shields us from external distractions, right?

By: Mike King

Mike King — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:50:32 +0000

Alik, I think the method people use depends on their communication or natural modality. Some people will be visual (close their eyes to picture things), some audible (need quiet or music to inspire) and some are kinesthetic (need to attempt or practice) by doing something.

I am more audible so it doesn’t help me to close my eyes. I can tune out any sound though when I concentrate hard (If I focus hard I can blank out my vision, or areas of it to black even with my eyes open).

So, instead of closing my eyes, I listen to music about 12hrs a day, tune out others to focus. I also find solving problems best simply by talking through them or listening to someone about them.

By: alik levin

alik levin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:39:17 +0000

blogrdoc, for some reason I knew you gonna love Mendeleev story .

By: blogrdoc

blogrdoc — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:14:18 +0000

I do a very similar thing by taking off my glasses. I get very easily distracted, but with my glasses off, I basically can’t see faces or other distractions.

I love the story of Mendeleev and the periodic table, by the way.