Conscious: The Power of Awareness in Business and Life is a book by Blinkist which explores the importance of conscious awareness in the business and personal life of individuals. This title offers insight on how conscious awareness can improve problem-solving, self-awareness, personal relationships, and decision making. Key learnings from this book include:
• The power of self-awareness and its importance in personal development
• The importance of paying attention to your emotions and being conscious of your feelings
• How to observe your feelings and make conscious decisions
• Mindful awareness when it comes to communication and relationships
This book is valuable for UX designers because understanding the power of conscious awareness can help them to be more effective in their work by developing empathy towards their users, being more mindful when interpreting research and user feedback. Additionally, reading this book may be a great way to gain some insight into the behavior of people and to better understand user needs and desires.
Other books UX designers may find interesting and related to the Conscious book could be Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman and Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal.
🎀 Highlights
conscious organism is one that has some sort of experience.
Basically, intuition is that gut feeling you have when you know something is amiss and yet you can’t pinpoint why.
people feel instinctively more worried when they board a plane than when they get into a car, even though a car ride comes with a much higher chance of injury. So, in the blinks ahead, listen to your intuition, but also try to keep an open mind about the possibilities of consciousness.
people feel instinctively more worried when they board a plane than when they get into a car, even though a car ride comes with a much higher chance of injury.
our intuition can lead us to believe that only things with human-like qualities and behaviors can have consciousness.
communication takes place between trees; what LSD experiences can
research that has gone into the largely unseen behavior of the plant world.
plants are aware of and sensitive to their surroundings.
many plants also have some form of memory.
sensing light, responding to danger and helping others
plants have some form of experience
conscious organism is one that has some sort of experience.
Basically, intuition is that gut feeling you have when you know something is amiss and yet you can’t pinpoint why.
people feel instinctively more worried when they board a plane than when they get into a car, even though a car ride comes with a much higher chance of injury. So, in the blinks ahead, listen to your intuition, but also try to keep an open mind about the possibilities of consciousness.
people feel instinctively more worried when they board a plane than when they get into a car, even though a car ride comes with a much higher chance of injury.
our intuition can lead us to believe that only things with human-like qualities and behaviors can have consciousness.
communication takes place between trees; what LSD experiences can
research that has gone into the largely unseen behavior of the plant world.
plants are aware of and sensitive to their surroundings.
many plants also have some form of memory.
sensing light, responding to danger and helping others
plants have some form of experience
conscious organism is one that has some sort of experience.
Basically, intuition is that gut feeling you have when you know something is amiss and yet you can’t pinpoint why.
people feel instinctively more worried when they board a plane than when they get into a car, even though a car ride comes with a much higher chance of injury. So, in the blinks ahead, listen to your intuition, but also try to keep an open mind about the possibilities of consciousness.
people feel instinctively more worried when they board a plane than when they get into a car, even though a car ride comes with a much higher chance of injury.
our intuition can lead us to believe that only things with human-like qualities and behaviors can have consciousness.
communication takes place between trees; what LSD experiences can
research that has gone into the largely unseen behavior of the plant world.
plants are aware of and sensitive to their surroundings.
many plants also have some form of memory.
sensing light, responding to danger and helping others
