Plenty of research shows that a diet rich in produce offers valuable nutrients not just for your body, but for your mental well-being.But here’s the irony: If you focus exclusively on the mental and physical health perks — instead of how delicious healthy foods can be — you may have a harder time reaping those benefits.So to really use food to fuel your body and your mind, it may help to try letting your taste buds guide you to delicious dishes that also happen to be nutritious.

Healthy eating should not be boring or depriving

Before you jump in and redesign your entire diet in one fell swoop, make one change at a time. So instead of turning down both bread and fries at your next dinner out, start off by making just one swap, such as trading the fries for roasted cauliflower, but letting yourself have a piece of bread. This will help your mind adjust to the healthy changes instead of retaliating against deprivation mode.

A smart decision-maker starts small

<ul><li>Healthy foods have so much more to offer than mere vitamins and nutrients, such as delicious crunch, a colorful feast for the eyes, and, yes — a ton of flavor. </li><li>Being mindful of these “experiential” elements of eating could help you choose wisely. This could be as simple as topping a salad with some fresh herbs or keeping a bottle of hot sauce at work to amp up the flavor of an otherwise “boring” plate. </li><li>These strategies can “help us enjoy eating nutritious foods time and again and feel satisfied when we do because we aren’t in a mindset of restriction.</li></ul>

Focus on flavor

3 p.m. snackers, take heart: Preparing your indulgences in advance is a research-backed strategy for keeping your cravings in check.. In a series of field studies surveying real office environments, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University found that employees who decided on their lunch orders in the morning consumed five percent fewer calories than their colleagues who made their choices in the moment.By planning your lunch or snack time menu ahead of time — and planning something nutritious yet delicious — you’ll get to eat what you want… and your brain will benefit, too.

A smart decision-maker plans ahead

A good decision-maker chooses actions that give the best outcome for themselves and others. Here's how to become one.

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Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

How To Become a Better Decision-Maker

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Food

This new research will help you make better food decisions

Be a smart decision-maker when it comes to food

What is a mind? Defining the concept is a surprisingly slippery task. The mind is the seat of consciousness, the essence of your being. Without a mind, you cannot be considered meaningfully alive. So what exactly, and where precisely, is it?Traditionally, scientists have tried to define the mind as the product of brain activity: The brain is the physical substance, and the mind is the conscious product of those firing neurons, according to the classic argument. But growing evidence shows that the mind goes far beyond the physical workings of your brain.

The Mind Defies Defining

A key component of the mind is the emergent self-organizing process, both embodied and relational, that regulates energy and information flow within and among us.The most immediately shocking element of this definition is that our mind extends beyond our physical selves.Our mind is not simply our perception of experiences, but those experiences themselves. It’s impossible to completely disentangle our subjective view of the world from our interactions.

What Scientists Say

The original idea for defining the mind in a new way came from mathematics. The mind meets the mathematical definition of a complex system in that it’s open (can influence things outside itself), chaos capable (which simply means it’s roughly randomly distributed), and non-linear (which means a small input leads to large and difficult to predict result).

The Mind Is Like Math

Even perceiving our mind as simply a product of our brain, rather than relations, can make us feel more isolated. And to appreciate the benefits of interrelations, you simply have to open your mind.

The Mind Encompasses Your Body and Surroundings

The mind isn't just confined in y our head.

"Your thoughts, feelings, memories, attention, what you experience in this subjective world is part of mind.”

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Scientists say your “mind” isn’t confined to your brain, or even your body

Fibonacci numbers explain how things expand and why they give rise to spirals. You can find Fibonacci numbers all over the natural world. The number of petals on a flower is a Fibonacci number. Cut open a fruit, and you'll find a star shape with a Fibonacci number of arms. A banana has a three-pointed star, and apple a five-pointed star. The cells on a pineapple have several Fibonacci numbers. If you take squares whose dimensions correspond to the Fibonacci numbers, then you can arrange them in an expanding rectangle.

Fibonacci numbers are important

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21…Every number in the sequence is created by adding together the two previous numbers. The next Fibonacci number is 13 + 21 = 34. Hidden inside this sequence is the golden ratio. Many artists regard the golden circle as the perfect proportion for a canvas.

The Fibonacci sequence

The numbers are named after a 13th-century Italian mathematician known as Leonardo Bonacci. In 1853, historian Guillaume Libri started to refer to him as Fibonacci (son of Bonacci). In 1202, Fibonacci wrote about these numbers in Liber Abaci. The book was meant to support new ways of doing computation as Europe still used Roman numerals and the abacus to do calculations. He explained the power of the Hindu Arabic numerals, and how the Indians used the numbers 1 to 9 with a revolutionary new concept of 0 in a place number system.

Origin of Fibonacci numbers

The numbers were discovered by Indian poets and musicians who used them to understand rhythm in music and poetry. Modern musicians also used the Fibonacci numbers in their work. Debussy used them in his La Mer, Bartok in his Music For Strings, Percussion and Celesta. There's a new form of poetry named Fib, where each line has syllables corresponding to the Fibonacci sequence.

Fibonacci did not discover these numbers

The Fibonacci sequence is used in art, composition, maths, nature, music, investing and more. 

Flowers, pinecones, shells, fruits, hurricanes and even spiral galaxies, all exhibit the Fibonacci sequence.

What is the Fibonacci sequence?

Executive presence is when a person projects that they know where they're going and that they're willing to take their listeners with them. 
It requires that you speak with confidence.

Executive presence

They are:
<ul>
<li>Your speech</li>
<li>Your body language</li>
<li>Your clarity of thought.</li>
</ul>

The three components of confidence

Speaking too fast can sabotage your executive presence.
A person could mistakenly think that you want the conversation to be over. However, you may really be nervous or try to prove that you are smarter than them.
But speaking at a nice pace can project that you are in the moment and actively listening.

Speaking too quickly

Filler words and sounds are sabotaging your ability to project commitment. It projects that you are unsure of yourself.Indicating that there's more to the information: When the tone of voice is always going up at the end of the sentence, it proposes that there's more information you want to get across. It makes it sound like you're unsure of yourself.

Inserting filler words, using the wrong tone

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No matter what job or industry you pursue, you’ll need to learn how to be adaptable and navigate these experiences gracefully to grow in your career. Mindset, above all else, will have a major impact on whether you succeed.Unfortunately, too many of us have the mindset that “change is temporary.” And when we see something as temporary, we tend to cope with it instead of accepting it — and if we don’t learn how to accept, embrace, and work through our discomfort in unfamiliar situations, we will inevitably find it difficult to progress in the rapidly evolving world of work.

Coping with Change

Signs you’re a “receiver”:<ul><li>You wait for direction from others before moving forward.</li><li>You escalate decisions, assuming they’re “above my pay grade.”</li><li>You accept decisions (even when you don’t think they will work) to avoid questioning your boss.</li></ul>Shift toward a change-ready mindset:<ul><li>Figure out an action you can take that is consistent with the change and valuable in the short term.</li><li>Generate possible solutions before you take any problem to your boss.</li><li>Back up any reservations you have about a decision with data or perspectives that might not have been known or included during the original discussion.</li></ul>

Change-Averse Mindsets: The Receivers

Signs you’re a “resistor”:<ul><li>You bring up reasons that something cannot be done based on precedent or history.</li><li>You agree to a stated commitment, and then find reasons not to execute on it later.</li><li>You poke holes in plans as a means of avoiding or stalling action.</li></ul>Shift toward a change-ready mindset:<ul><li>Explore how the solution is different from what happened in the past. Be informed by the past — but not captured by it.</li><li>Raise your reservations at the appropriate time. Participate in the debate to get to a better solution.</li><li>Ask questions that improve and encourage the solution rather than shut it down. </li></ul>

Change-Averse Mindsets: Resistors

Signs you’re a “controller”:<ul><li>You seek information that supports your own views or reservations.</li><li>You prefer getting detailed instructions on what to do instead of inquiring about what has been tried already and generating a brand new plan. </li><li>You discount obstacles raised by others to stick to the plan.</li></ul>Shift toward a change-ready mindset:<ul><li>Discuss your idea or solution with a diverse group of colleagues to gain perspective and improve on the idea.</li><li>Rather than just sharing your expertise or what you would do in the situation, ask what is been already tried. </li></ul>

Change-Averse Mindsets: Controllers

Almost everyone has a predominant relationship to change that will drive their thoughts and actions, but different situations also bring out different responses. ​​Change-ready people look at changes both big and small as opportunities for personal development, and “failed” experiments as a rich source of learning and growth. Similarly, they look for ways to break out of old ways of thinking, stay curious, and challenge the status quo.

Moving to a Change-Ready Mindset

Overcome these three (very common) change-averse mindsets.

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The term is used in chemistry, biology, and agronomy. PH translates the values of the concentration of the hydrogen ion into numbers between 0 and 14. <ul><li>Pure water corresponds to a pH of 7, which is neutral (neither acidic nor alkaline). </li><li>A pH less than 7 is considered acidic.</li><li>A pH greater than 7 is considered basic or alkaline.</li></ul>

PH measures the acidity or basicity of liquid solutions

Danish biochemist S.P.L Sorensen used the measurement to represent the hydrogen ion concentration, expressed in equivalents per litre of an aqueous solution: pH = −log[H+] The pH can be read with a less accurate litmus paper or with indicator dyes. However, it is usually measured with a pH meter that consists of a voltmeter attached to a pH-responsive electrode (usually mercury-mercurous chloride electrode) and a reference electrode (usually glass that are immersed in a solution. The voltmeter measures the potential difference between the glass and reference electrodes

Ways to take a pH measurement

In agriculture, the pH of the soil shows what crops will grow easily in the soil and what adjustments are needed to adapt it for growing other crops. Acidic soils are often considered infertile as the solubility of aluminium and manganese also increase with acidity. However, conifers and members of the family Ericaceae, such as blueberries, prefer acidic soils. Acidic soil can be neutralized by treating it with lime.

PH is most important in agriculture

pH, quantitative measure of the acidity or basicity of aqueous or other liquid solutions. The term, widely used in chemistry, biology, and agronomy, translates the values of the concentration of the hydrogen ion into numbers between 0 and 14. Learn more about pH.

pH | Definition, Uses, & Facts

This is an explorative approach to problem-solving, whose aim is to consider the complex interactions between nodes and connections in a given problem space. Instead of considering a particular problem in isolation to discover a pre-existing solution, networked thinking encourages non-linear, second-order reflection in order to let a new idea emerge.Thinking in networks can be done at an individual level, but the power of networked thinking becomes apparent in a collaborative setting.

Networked thinking

<ul><li>Networked thinking is based on two key principles: divergence and emergence. </li><li>Starting from any relevant node in the network, the divergent phase consists in branching out from that original point in many directions, without trying to evaluate the validity of any particular idea.</li><li>When enough nodes are added to the network, patterns start to emerge. It may be specific clusters, or strong ties between particular nodes.</li><li>Divergence and emergence allow networked thinkers to uncover non-obvious interconnections and explore second-order consequences of seemingly isolated phenomena.</li></ul>

Divergence and emergence

“Asking who is right misses the point, although surely the person using tools can see further into the nature of things. Indeed, to see more clearly what makes up the world and, in the process to make more sense of it and ourselves is the main motivation to push the boundaries of knowledge.”

Networked thinking: a quiet cognitive revolution - Ness Labs

Intelligence is a mechanism to solve problems (especially the ones related to survival). It includes the ability to gather knowledge, to learn, to be creative, to form strategies, or think critically.It manifests itself in a huge variety of behaviors.

What Intelligence Is

<ul><li>Not all scientists agree on what counts as intelligence.</li><li>We think of intelligence as a trait (like height or strength) but we find it difficult to define it.</li></ul>

The Difficult Process of Defining Intelligence

We can think of intelligence as a flexible set of skills: a toolbox. And the most basic tools in the intelligence toolbox are:<ul><li>The ability to gather information through senses, to navigate and react to the external world in the right way.</li><li>The ability to save information and to use it</li><li>The ability to learn.</li></ul>These tools enable creatures that appear to be stupid to act in surprisingly intelligent ways.

Intelligence As A Toolbox

Information is the basis of action for all living things.Without it, we are not able to control and predict our surroundings, or to react appropriately and flexibly to them.

Information: The Basis Of Action

Information is much more powerful if we can keep it and save it. This is where memory enters.Memory is the ability to save and recall information so we don't have to go back to square one every time we perceive something as important.

Memory: The Ability To Save And Recall Information

Learning is the process of putting together a sequence of thoughts and actions.It is a series of repeatable behaviors that can be diversified and adapted.

The Process Of Learning

<ul><li>Building on the basic tools, more complex living creatures have a wider range of problems they can solve: They can memorize different associations, connections, and mechanical moves and stratagems.</li><li>The more complex the problem, the more tools are needed in combination to solve it. The more tools there are, the more flexibility there is to solve the new challenges.</li><li>Even for complex problems, each living being's individual situation and circumstances are important.</li></ul>

Complex Problems Require Complex Tools

Being creative translates into building something new and valuable from apparently unrelated things. In the context of intelligence, this means making new and unusual connections: pairing input with memories and skills, to come up with a unique solution to a problem.Another aspect of creativity is applying a new tool/resource to a task.

Creativity: Making New And Unusual Connections

Gathering materials for later use is connected to an advanced dimension of problem-solving: planning.Planning means considering activities required for the desired goal and putting them together in a plan. When unexpected conditions and new possibilities arise, they need to be evaluated according to whether they match the plan or not.

The Ability To Plan

Because we as humans are able to work together and share knowledge across generations, we can overcome challenges beyond any single individual's ability. This allowed us to shape the planet on our liking.We also created new problems in the process: tax forms, but also climate change and antibiotic resistance, for example. To solve these, we need to look past short-term survival and think about the distant future.

Culture And Our Ability To Share Knowledge

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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin?

Children are naturally inquisitive, but as they turn into adults, the frequency of asking questions slowly diminishes. They crystallize their understanding of the world and let things be as they are, not disturbing the status quo.
The lost art of asking good, challenging questions is essential in this world. Some questions are innocuous and simple, but there are other types of queries asked by curious minds which may not be appropriate to many people.

Good Questions Bad Questions

Asking fresh questions is essential to critical thinking, and for solving problems that appear unsolvable to rigid minds.
Thinking outside the box, a well-known cliché involves asking uncomfortable or unheard of questions that may sound ridiculous to some.

The Lost Art Of Critical Thinking

The world is full of mystery and wonder, but closed minds cannot fathom that their worldview and presumptions can be re-examined by inquisitive minds.
If they reflect upon the same, they might begin to realize that such inquiries are simply the product of fresh thinking and need to be seen with tolerance.

The Importance Of Inquiry

Tolerating inquiry is essential even if there are such things as questions no one should ask.

Why questions (good and bad) matter

Divide your paper into three sections: a 2.5” margin to the left, a 2” summary section on the bottom, and a main 6” section.
<ul>
<li>The main 6" section is used for note-taking during class.</li>
<li>The 2.5" margin to the left is the cues section. Use this space to write down ideas you'll need to remember. Add a prompt for each. Include vocabulary words and study questions here.</li>
<li>The 2" summary section at the bottom is where you'll highlight the main points.</li>
</ul>
The advantages of this method are notes that are neatly organized and summarized.

The Cornell Method

The page is organized by topic. While in class, start with the main topic. Branch off and write a heading for each of the subtopics. Add important notes underneath each subtopic. 
This method is useful for visual learners. It helps you understand the relationships between topics.

The Mapping Method

Use headings and bullet points with supporting facts.
<ul>
<li>During a lesson, begin your notes with a bullet point for the main topic. </li>
<li>The first subtopic is placed below and indented slightly to the right.</li>
<li>Jot down the details below your heading and slightly to the right.</li>
</ul>
This method is useful when a topic includes a lot of detail.

The Outlining Method

Divide the page into 3 columns and label each column by category. Fill the details of each category in the rows below.
This method is useful for lessons that cover a lot of facts or relationships between topics.

The Charting Method

This method involves jotting down important information on each topic. Each line on the page is a separate topic. Use headings for each main topic.

The Sentence Method

If your in-class notes are messy, unorganized, and unclear at first glance, you're not going to get much use out of them. This has nothing to do with how neat your handwriting is - it's all about how your notes are structured.