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Boosting Attention and Generating Ideas through Scatter Focus | Hyper Focus by Chris Bailey -The Odd Angle

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Do you also get ideas while sitting on a commode seat or while casually walking and sometimes while washing utensils or maybe during getting a shower. I personally have got many blog ideas and solutions to the problems which I am not thinking consciously while doing such activities of social reproduction. Why do we encounter our creative side when we are actually not engaging consciously with the activities of creation or in production? The answer lies in a concept called Scatterfocus which I have borrowed from Chris Bailey's book Hyperfocus.  What is Scatterfocus? Scatterfocus, as presented in Hyperfocus, is the intentional practice of letting your mind wander freely. It's the opposite of hyperfocus, where you concentrate intensely on a single task. Scatterfocus allows your mind to explore various ideas and make unexpected connections without the pressure of achieving a specific outcome. Bailey calls it "Scatterfocus" because in it, our attention scatters to focus on...

Best Story of all time | What Makes a Story good? -The Odd Angle

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The Greatest Story Ever   Told! Great story of all time. Best story ever. Before i tell you about the Greatest story ever told let me tell you, What are the elements of a great story? 1.Experiencing For a story to become great it has to be Experiencing, Do you remember any story that you were told long ago but you remember it today with all the details and with the same emotions which it stimulated at that time. It is because it you had experienced the story and you were fully involved in it. And the most experiencing story  is .............. 2. Alive and Real For a story to become great it has to be lived , whenever you are told a story that is lived by some one it makes you experience it and it makes you like it, can be a situation or a life event encountered by some one. Many great stories are nothing but the daily life moments or life events told by people who lived it and experienced it  And the story most lived is ................. 3. Teaches a lesson   All the...