“He points out that medicating kids who might be better at hunting so that they can sit quietly in a school designed to teach farming doesn’t make a lot of sense.

A kid who has innate hunting skills is easily distracted, because noticing small movements in the brush is exactly what you’d need to do if you were hunting. Scan and scan and pounce. That same kid is able to drop everything and focus like a laser—for a while—if it’s urgent. The farming kid, on the other hand, is particularly good at tilling the fields of endless homework problems, each a bit like the other. Just don’t ask him to change gears instantly.”

Precisely what the docs told my parents… the whole scan an pounce thing.  Now I’m pouncing like a mofo.  Full post

I have quickly become a huge fan of Trizle, but do find flaws with logic.  I suppose any idea could expand infinitely and Trizle does a great job of weeding out that garbage.  Here are my like and dislikes on this:

Likes:

• Suggestion of grouping like tasks (task creation and task completion)
• Over simplification - Gives me actionable steps.

Dislikes:

• Over simplification - You can’t just make tasks, they need to be good ones.
• This sort of time parsing is rarely possible.

Suggestions to get things done:

• Keep a todo list close by.
• Jot down things as they come up, but do nothing with them.
• At the end of the day take 15 minutes to formalize them and prioritize them.
• Next day start with #1 instead of trying to think of what to do.

I am not entirely sure if getting smarter is all about asking questions.  Rather I would say that it is about a quest for knowledge.  Yes, asking questions is an important part of that, but equally important is having the drive to seek answers for the questions you ask.

Via 99%