When someone is in a state of flow, that person's brain is not thinking about anything - it's just processing things through chunks at a total instinct level. Athletes in a state of flow describe knowing what will happen just… — Kevin Maney Copy Share
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same. — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other - high fidelity or high convenience - there's probably a big opportunity at the other end. That was the opening for Federal Express, for instance. When it started, there was only one mail service in America - the US Postal Service, which was… — Kevin Maney Copy Share
Chunking makes our brains more efficient. The more you can chunk something, the faster and easier you can process it. Wayne Gretzky had chunked… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Some of what we're learning suggests a balance between exposing children to new things, yet giving them a chance to repeatedly experience something they… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Eventually, we need to have computers that work differently from the way they do today and have for the past 60-plus years. We're capturing… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Our brains seem to have the power to do one or the other - record and remember every detail, or chunk it to higher… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Chunking is the ability of the brain to learn from data you take in, without having to go back and access or think about all that data every time. As a kid learning how to ride a bike, for instance, you have to think about everything you're doing. You're brain is taking in all that data, and constantly putting it… — Kevin Maney Copy Share
We learn more about how human brains work. And that leads us to ideas about how to make human brains work better. — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
When someone is in a state of flow, that person's brain is not thinking about anything - it's just processing things through chunks at a total instinct level. Athletes in a state of flow describe knowing what will happen just before it does - knowing how a defender will react to a certain move an instant before doing it. Of… — Kevin Maney Copy Share
Anybody can develop a certain amount of talent at something. However, the supremely talented - the superstars - are people who have married a… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
I reluctantly signed up for a journalism major, thinking I needed a fall-back way to make money should my career as a novelist fail… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
