[Life Hacks and the Practice of Tanka] 5 Steps to Turn Reading into 'Brain Installation'
In our daily lives, we use brain resources when we are conscious of tasks or what we need to do right now.
However, those resources have limits, and when we exceed those limits, our work performance declines.
The capacity of those resources is called cognitive resources.
In daily life, it seems that we are overusing these cognitive resources, leading to increased stress.
To avoid wasting cognitive resources, it is important to reduce the number of things you have to do (^^)
To that end, it is said to be a good idea to categorize the huge list you have written down into the following three categories:
■ 'Do Now' To-Do List
■ 'Do Soon' To-Do List
■ 'Do Someday' To-Do List
It would be great if you could make it a habit, but to save cognitive resources and reduce mental distress, it is important to establish the following three things, so please try to be conscious of them.
① Reduce the things you have to do as much as possible
② Reduce the things you need to remember (prospective memory) as much as possible
③ Make sure to complete only your routine work
However, since it is important to use life hacks that suit you, I think you should choose the methods that are easiest for you rather than trying to fit yourself into what is presented (^^)
Now, for those who want to think about what life hacks are,
'You who read me, are you sure you understand my language?' (from J.L. Borges' 'The Library of Babel')
I will introduce concrete examples of hacks combined with the practice of Tanka, which I think can be called the repetition of presenting a way of life in the first person (self-making). Are you driven toward a daily world where such (hack-like) ways of living are considered desirable?
Please check it out (^^)
1. Prepare a book search list for 'searching'
2. 'Buy' by specifically naming the book
3. Marking 'Reading' with Two Sticky Notes
4. 'Recording' in a Reading Notebook
5. 'Utilizing' Records with a Digital Index
(Quoted from 'Summarize Your Reading in One Notebook: Installation Reading to Reliably Drop Information into Your Head with a 100-Yen Notebook' by Nobuyuki Okuno (Nana Corporate Communication))
'The pale sunlight turns you, searching for an empty seat, into a Georges Seurat painting'
(From 'too late 2' by Hana Doken)
'Counting coins to buy ice cream for the children who gathered to hear my fairy tales'
(From 'Bokyo-hen' by Yasutaka Hamada)
'Reading through "Summer Flowers" with my students, the title is best left ordinary'
(From 'Bizuki-shu' by Kazuhiro Honda)
'This is the moment I recorded with a high-speed camera, the moment I convinced myself I was in love'
(From 'Tangible' by Kanako Kujirai)
'The shadow of the zelkova tree occasionally sways on the screen door, there was light that easily clogged'
(From 'Ima Ni-senchi' by Beni Nagata)
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