1. "Sleep"
Recently, the New York University School of Medicine and the Langone Research Center have found 20 of the most popular misconceptions about sleep from more than 8,000 websites. We have selected a few of the most familiar:
- "Adults can only sleep for 5 hours a day. When you are sleepy, you only need to take a while."
It has been proven that there may be a class of people who only need 5 hours of sleep a day. But for most adults, only 5 hours or less of sleep in the long term may lead to serious cardiovascular, immune system, psychological and other diseases.
In addition, long-term sleepless nights, your brain and body will not adapt to the lack of lifestyle. Therefore, it is still necessary to ensure 7 hours of continuous sleep every day.
- "As long as you sleep for 7 hours, it is the same for the body during the day or night."
A survey of night shift workers' sleep shows that sleeping during the day can lead to shorter sleep periods and worse sleep quality. Long-term day and night reversal can lead to increased risk of depression, diabetes, and breast cancer.
- "In addition to letting others sleep well, it has no effect on themselves."
Snoring is the sound produced by the vibration of the airflow passing through the upper airway due to the narrowness of the upper airway during sleep. Severe snoring is often accompanied by various health hazards. As an early symptom of sleep apnea syndrome, snoring can lead to a risk of cardiovascular disease. Therefore, if it is a serious snoring, you need to find out the cause and treat it as soon as possible.
We often see a variety of pseudo-health knowledge in various media, and we must polish our eyes on such widely-distributed "common sense."
2. "Deadline"
Flexible Mobile line may make the project more successful
Leisurely delays - knowing the Deadline of the mission - nervously delaying in the fear of Deadline - found that there was always an accident - forced to adjust Deadline - continue to delay...
This is the normal process for completing a task. When I want to be lazy, Deadline is the only motivation that can urge me to climb up and continue my liver.
However, the University of Michigan's Bordley research team questioned the role of Deadline: What would be the effect of changing a fixed Deadline to a flexible Deadline?
Based on this assumption, the team built a computer model that attached unexpected probability coefficients to traditional management planning tools. After cycling through 1000 simulation projects, it was concluded that the success rate of Deadline time spans with increased uncertainty increased by approximately 40%.
Taking into account possible accidents, changing the previous fixed Deadline time point (such as the next month's 12th) to a more flexible time range (such as next month's 10-20) can help people pay attention. From the crazy pursuit of the deadline to the serious completion of the task, to better play the creativity, rational allocation of resources, to deal with emergencies.
So, from the beginning, I realized that I might encounter various unexpected situations and that the deadline setting is more flexible, which may really help to complete the task.
3. "Insomnia"
Insomnia will aggravate negative emotions
Have you ever been at midnight, a person lying in bed tossing and turning, suddenly remembered the horrible embarrassing incidents before, regretted that he could not wait to shoot the bed against the wall.
Regarding the relationship between insomnia and negative emotions, the Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience recently published an article in "Brain: A Journal of Neurology":
The researchers recorded 57 participants between the ages of 18-70 who sang the audio of the karaoke and recorded the emotional response of the brain when they heard the recording and heard the recording a week later. While listening to the recording, participants recorded their feelings and performed MRI imaging of their brain activities. The researchers compared the results of people with good sleep and those with insomnia. The results showed that people with high-quality sleep after a week would have reduced negative emotions, while those with insomnia would amplify those bad feelings such as jealousy and anxiety.
Therefore, the lack of high-quality sleep can hinder our brains from digesting negative emotions.
The reason is that normal sleepers and insomniacs are involved in managing the emotional side of the brain when dealing with new negative memories. But after a good night's sleep, these negative experiences will be digested, and when they are aroused again, the brain's limbic system will not be activated and the emotions will be better controlled.
When insomnia patients think of past memories, they still activate the limbic system and repeat the emotional reaction at that time. This is why patients with insomnia are always plagued by past experiences.
4 "Creativity"
For some people, creativity reaches the peak at 50
Only in my 20s, I feel that my brain is slow and my inspiration is exhausted. Don't panic, maybe your peak of creation will only appear at the age of 57.
Dr. Bruce Weinberg and his colleagues summed up the research results of previous Nobel Prize winners in economics, and combined research found that some people have a peak of creativity at 25 or 29 years old, while others have achieved breakthroughs in the field around 57 years old.
The difference in age between the two groups depends mainly on how they study the problem.
Creators who use a conceptual path will achieve domain innovation in the early stages of career development. Before fully accepting and familiarizing with existing theoretical results, this type of creator will jump out of the original framework and challenge existing conclusions.
The creators of another type of experimental path will continue to gather experience in their own careers, combining past information to find new perspectives to explore the problem. Their ability to innovate really reached their highest point at the age of 57.
So, the younger you are, the more creative you are. It depends on which research path we are used to.