Hidden Psychology of To-Do's. How Sight Turns Off Sound.
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In today's GLP Update, we're talking about a hidden reason why a to-do list may be your savior (even if you hate them), and a cool study that reveals how focusing intensely on visual tasks just might just make you momentarily deaf to certain sounds.
Ah, the old to-do list. Some people love them. Others outright hate them. Some refuse anything but a paper to-do list or a planner, others need an app. Love or hate, there are a few hidden reasons why exploring both a to-do list and a "to-done" list might make you not only more productive, but way more upbeat and happy.
And, on the science side of things, in today's Good Life Science Update, we're diving into some fascinating research on how the bandwidth needed to see fiercely and listen intently sometimes wars with each other. That leads your brain to sometimes have to choose. How and why, and how it might impact you (and give you an excuse for "not hearing certain things or people, lol) is what we're talking about. And, as always, for those want to go to the source, here's a link to the full study.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Jonathan with two days Good Life Project update where we blend together |
| 0:08.0 | different ideas and segments to kind of update you on what's spiraling around in my noggin |
| 0:15.7 | related to living a good life. |
| 0:17.6 | Today kind of an interesting focus actually two of them. |
| 0:20.8 | We've got a RIF and a science update and today's RIF is about to-do lists. |
| 0:27.2 | Do you keep to-do lists? |
| 0:29.1 | Do you live and die by them? |
| 0:30.8 | Do you absolutely hate them and war with them? |
| 0:34.7 | There are a couple of interesting things that happen in our minds that make to-do lists |
| 0:39.9 | a really interesting thing to explore even if the thought of them makes you kind of want |
| 0:45.1 | to hurl. |
| 0:46.1 | In our science update we've got an interesting bit of science that shows that concentrating |
| 0:52.5 | or focusing your attention, your awareness on something highly visual can potentially |
| 1:00.0 | lead you to be what's called momentarily deaf to sounds around you. |
| 1:06.1 | So we're going to dive into that research and it may also explain a little bit of relationship |
| 1:11.6 | angst along the way. |
| 1:13.2 | Give you something a little bit of science to point to the next time somebody says, hey, |
| 1:18.0 | were you listening? |
| 1:19.0 | Anyway, I'm Jonathan Fields. |
| 1:21.6 | This is Good Life Project. |
| 1:28.8 | Fancy a fever tree in a glass with ice and rum. |
| 1:35.1 | You thought I was going to say gin, didn't you? |
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