See last week's post The Power of Habits - What is a Habit? for the introduction to this month's blog topic. The neuroscience around understanding habits has evolved dramatically in recent years. With medical scanning technology scientists and medical researchers alike have powerful tools to understand our brain. These tools allow them to see what is … Continue reading The neuroscience of habits
Understanding how your brain uses habits can help you be more productive with your time. You can use conscious habit-setting to achieve all sorts of change, including becoming more tech-savy. This month we are looking at Habits, as the last topic in our tech-free winter blog series. Since we are focused in this blog series … Continue reading The Power of Habits -What is a Habit?
In this month's newsletter: links to this month's posts on Human Senses Environmental Compliance Conference in November the next topic on the blog - in the tech-free for winter series - Habits See here: July Newsletter. Click here if you would like to subscribe.
Today we conclude our look at the senses, with a look at how understanding your senses can help you deal with technology in the digital world. Links to the previous posts in this series, and a summary of the content: Understand what a sense is and why senses are important, including to a person's mental … Continue reading Beyond the Five Senses – Part 4 Dealing with Technology
The NZPI announced the programme for the ECC's annual conference in Auckland in November 2018. I'm delighted to be speaking at the conference. My presentation is called Working Alongside the Bots. It will explore how our work in compliance will change with artificial intelligence. This is a hot topic for the media right now. The … Continue reading Environmental Compliance Conference 2018 in Auckland
We continue our topic of human senses with a look at the importance of sensory engagement in a person's well-being. We will focus on: why senses matter to well-being the challenges of sensory engagement in the urban environment the role of sensory experience in the development of children. 1. Why do the senses matter to … Continue reading Beyond the Five Senses – Part 3 Sensory Engagement
Today we look at our five "main" senses - what we now know about them, what other senses there are and why these other senses are important too. To see the last post which introduced this look at our senses, click here. It is easy to think of our senses as five discrete ways our … Continue reading Beyond the Five Senses – Part 2 The Senses
You might ask - why blog on our senses? Isn't this straightforward biology? Can understanding our senses better really help us in a digital world? The answer is most definitely yes. We will explore in this series of four posts. We will: Understand what a sense is and why senses are important, including to … Continue reading Beyond the Five Senses – Part 1
June Newsletter The theme this month is Human Memory. In this newsletter: Links to June's posts on Memory Our Pinterest Page Tech-Free Winter on the Blogs Subscribe here.
In this post, we wrap up our look at human memory and how you can use this knowledge to improve your professional work.
