Running On Autopilot Or Being Mindful. The Stress-Energy Paradox.

Sometimes you shift to automatic pilot. When your brain is tired, you react instantly to information. Every stimulus gets a fast and automatic response. Fear locks your brain too. “Our people, good. Other people, bad.” “Mac, good. Windows, bad.” “Same, good. Different, bad.” This “automatic pilot” is based upon our mental model that happens to …

Thin-slicing Project Managers

In his book “Blink” Malcolm Gladwell popularized the term “thin-slicing”. “… our ability to gauge what is really important from a very narrow period of experience. In other words, spontaneous decisions are often as good as—or even better than—carefully planned and considered ones.” (Wikipedia) This “thin slice of reality” is a pattern of all things …