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BRAIN DUMP [2 records]

Record 1 2020-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Leadership Techniques (Meetings)
  • Mental health and hygiene
DEF

The act or an instance of comprehensively and uncritically expressing and recording one's thoughts and ideas ...

CONT

A brain dump (sometimes spelled braindump, or brain-dump) is a complete transfer of accessible knowledge about a particular subject from your brain to some other storage medium, such as paper or your computer's hard drive.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques d'animation des réunions
  • Hygiène et santé mentales
CONT

Éviter la surcharge. La façon la plus simple d'y arriver est de se débarrasser de ses idées au fur et à mesure qu'elles surgissent dans notre esprit. C'est ce que certains appellent [...] le vidage du cerveau.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Técnicas de liderazgo (Reuniones)
  • Higiene y salud mental
CONT

[El] volcado cerebral [es] una forma de ordenar ideas, quehaceres y [de] poder descansar sin desvelarnos pensando en todo lo que debemos hacer al día siguiente.

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Record 2 2020-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Leadership Techniques (Meetings)
  • Mental health and hygiene
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

The first thing [that is recommended] is to take an hour aside to do a braindump. The concept of a braindump was made popular by the book "Getting Things Done" where the author suggests that your mind is a very poor task storage. ... By dumping all the tasks you store in your mind into a system you trust, your mind will stop bugging you.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques d'animation des réunions
  • Hygiène et santé mentales
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Técnicas de liderazgo (Reuniones)
  • Higiene y salud mental
  • Fraseología de los lenguajes especializados
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