Category: life hacks

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Life-hacks are great little tips that help you shortcut some things that you want to do/learn. For example, mnemonic techniques are hacks for memorizing things; math-hacks are shortcuts for doing mathematical operations.

Basically, MathMojo is about math-hacks, some life-hacks, making math meaningful, critical thinking, and Eduction (also know as Edux - which I won’t be dealing on the site until I’ve finished with the math-hacks).
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Just had a great evening mulching and edging our apple tree. I ran out of mulch and ground paper, but I can get more tomorrow.

As I worked, I used a catch (see last post) to collect my thoughts. The one I used is my favorite - it’s a mnemonic device. I used the rhyming peg method, (”one is the sun, two is a shoe, three is a tree,” etc.) and only needed to get to “door” for the four Ideas I had been mulling over.

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I was out mulching our apple tree in the front yard, when some thoughts came to me. One of them was that I can see how gardening can be such great contemplative avocation.

I’m not a gardener, and have never been very good at things like that, but I can weed, I can mulch, and I can mow the lawn. All of which are sort of brain-dead activities which can lead you into a trance-like state.

If you had been contemplating something just before you get into that state, or have had something preying on your mind, it is easy to let thoughts about it come to you while you are in that state. They can wash over you in a pleasant way. The trick is to catch them, and get them recorded somehow, so you can recall them later, and work them into something and take advantage of them.

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