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Unleash Your Life Episode 13, Google Your Brain

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Our information culture is awesome. So much knowledge at our fingertips! Yet if we Google everything, we miss out on human-to-human connection and using our creativity to figure things out. This week, learn how to Google Your Brain!

Here are this episode’s Action Points:

Get Your Info From a Book or Person — Google is easy, but taking the time to read a book on a subject will give you much more in-depth information. And when we go to a person for our information, we also forge a person-to-person connection!

Take a Course — Your local university, library, Meetups, or clubs can offer some amazing ways to learn in-person. You gain knowledge even as you make friends!

Experiment and Allow Failure — Trying to figure something out for ourselves can set us up for failure and disappointment. But if we learn to allow ourselves to fail, we open up worlds of possibilities. The truth is that we’re all more creative than we think. Let that creativity flow!

Try a New Search Engine, or Jump Out! — We recommend two different search engines that will give you more varied search results. One is Duck Duck Go, and the other is Ecosia. Another fun method you can use is to jump out ten or twenty pages in the search results. You may find something much more interesting than you’d find in the most popular results!

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4 thoughts on “Unleash Your Life Episode 13, Google Your Brain”

  1. Thank you!
    I like to think I use my brain more than some people, but I do seem to google everything. I used to be good at spelling. Now I am thankful for spell checkers. I certainly use a calculator but I also like to do the math on paper to check the numbers.
    And getting out there and making your own discoveries. I named our first batch of kittens when I was a kid based on my examination of them. Dad soon announced that a couple male/female names were going to have to be switched! I learned.
    I heard some strange conversational squawking in the woods after hearing and seeing several hawks circling and screaming for a couple days. When I spotted a nest the next day I wondered if there was a connection. Wikipedia didn’t mention such a thing. Then I heard a hawk and glanced up to see a pair of them land on the next with a few more twigs and a bit of conversation. I thought my discovery was pretty cool but also found myself doubting my own eyes and ears since I hadn’t found hawk nesting conversation documented.
    I think I’ll try duck duck go or maybe look on page 13 of my search results to see if I get different answers.
    I’m loving these podcasts!

    1. How interesting! So many things in this world, and it’s easy to believe it’s all online, but it’s not =) Sending love to you Maude!!

      1. I’m loving Duck Duck Go and finding it does get better results than google.
        Love to both of you!

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