"With a tight deadline approaching, employees may come up with a band-aid solution that is often confused with a creative solution."
My quotes from the entire Peak Productivity book series.
Explore insightful quotes curated from the entire Peak Productivity book series. Delve into a collection of wisdom and practical advice distilled from these works, offering guidance on maximizing efficiency, optimizing workflows, and achieving peak performance.
"People who overestimate their willpower strength are often the ones who fail the willpower challenge. Smokers who believe that they have strong willpower to quit smoking end up relapsing."
"Anticipating future punishment is more unpleasant than the punishment itself."
"You have no control over the rapid reactions that your amygdala triggers. When the fight/flight/freeze response is activated, your prefrontal cortex capacity is hampered. Survival comes first."
"New ideas emerge when people, ideas, or experiences collide. If you stay in the same environment, same job scope, and same routine for years, your chance of discovering aha moments grows slim."
"You can't expect your body to sleep optimally at daytime while the light exposure reduces your total melatonin production."
"It is important that inspectors must not allow witnesses to talk to each other before an interrogation happens. Each conversation bears risk of altering the true memory."
"After getting what you are after, the happiness you earned wears off. You go back to your neutral state, and your tolerance to feeling happiness increases"