Adapted from on Note: This guide is for Mac users, but most of these have Windows counterparts. One of the biggest ideas in psychology is the concept of. Also known as the ‘hedonic treadmill,’ it asserts that even substantial rises in our income or material wealth rarely lead to a lasting increase in happiness. Historically, most of our newfound amenities have relied on technology, but since the dawn of the internet, innovation has grown exponentially. By now, we’re used to our devices becoming stronger, better, faster each year, and so, technologic adaptation is on the rise. Today, I’d like to show you the three components of that speed:.

Muscle memory. Markers. Search Let’s do this! Muscle Memory When an object is thrown at you, your body reacts in 0.1 seconds to catch or deflect it.

That’s because your neural system keeps with certain muscle contraction combinations, so it can activate them quickly. While you can’t beat involuntary reflexes and ancient survival mechanisms, studies you can significantly reduce the time it takes you to perform any specific task through practice. Developing muscle memory for your Mac is a huge speed booster. Here are three ways to practice.

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Set your mouse speed to maximum shared this with. Go to ‘System Preferences,’ then select ‘Mouse’ or ‘Trackpad,’ whichever one applies, and set the speed to the fastest setting possible.

Yes, this will feel uncomfortable for the next 10 minutes, or even an hour, but once you adapt, you’ll reach everything faster forever. Whether this increases your overall speed by 10%, 50%, or 100%, it adds a lot of time to your life over the course of 30 years.

On your desktop. Cmd+N opens a new Finder window. Cmd+M minimizes that window. Cmd+T opens a new tab once you’re in a window.

Cmd+W closes the current tab, or window, if it’s the only tab. Cmd+Shift+N creates a new folder. Cmd+1/2/3/4 lets you move through different views. Pressing Enter while a file is selected allows you to change its name.

Press Enter again to confirm. The space bar shows you a preview of any file.

The arrows allow you to move from file to file. Holding down Shift while you press the arrows allows you to mark multiple files.

Cmd+Delete sends all marked files to Trash. Cmd+Tab lets you flip through all open applications and select the one you’d like to view. Here’s me demonstrating almost all of these in less than 30 seconds: In your browser Many of the same shortcuts apply when it comes to opening and managing tabs and windows. That said, there are a bunch more that make using your browser much easier.

Cmd+N opens a new window. Cmd+Shift+N opens a new incognito window.

Cmd+W closes the current tab, or, once all tabs are closed, window. Cmd+T opens a new tab and jumps into it.

Cmd+Shift+T reopens the last tab you closed. Cmd+Option+Right Arrow moves to the next tab in your lineup.

Cmd+Option+Left Arrow moves to the previous tab in your lineup. Cmd+1/2/3 jumps to the first, second, third, etc., tab. Cmd+9 jumps to whichever tab’s last.

Cmd+R reloads the page you’re on. Cmd+Shift+R reloads the page you’re on while bypassing the cache, meaning you can view it as if you arrived there for the first time. Cmd+L lets you jump to the URL/search bar from anywhere on the page. Cmd+F allows you to start typing and find any word on a page.

Cmd+Left Arrow goes back to the last page you visited. The space bar scrolls down the current page in increments.

Cmd+P brings up the Print screen. Cmd+M minimizes the current window. Again, here’s me demonstrating a whole bunch in 30 seconds: While typing This is especially helpful if you’re a writer, but we all type from time to time, and keyboard shortcuts allow you to edit text much faster. Cmd+Right Arrow lets you jump to the end of the current line. Cmd+Left Arrow lets you jump to the end of the current line. Option+Right Arrow jumps to the next word. Option+Left Arrow jumps to the previous word.

Shift+Right Arrow selects the next letter or symbol. Shift+Left Arrow selects the previous letter or symbol. Option+Shift+Right Arrow selects the entire next word. Option+Shift+Left Arrow selects the entire previous word. Cmd+Shift+Right Arrow selects everything right of the cursor. Cmd+Shift+Left Arrow selects everything left of the cursor. Cmd+C copies whatever’s highlighted.

Cmd+V pastes whatever was copied. Delete deletes whatever’s highlighted Here are some of those in action: Speaking of typing Learn 10-finger typing When I was eleven years old, my parents sent me to a typing school. Over the course of two years, I learned how to type blind, using all ten fingers. It’s the single-greatest skill I have in terms of keyboard efficiency. Most people claim they use all ten fingers to type, but they really don’t and they wouldn’t know what they were typing if their eyes were closed.

That reminds me 3. Search Whatever you can reach neither through muscle memory, nor a marker, you have to search for. This is your biggest time waster for two reasons:. Searching itself is a result of weak organization. Ideally, you could eliminate it altogether. The process is inefficient and presents lots of opportunities to get distracted. Organizing, while delaying our work, is a necessary evil.

We’re not omniscient, so we can’t set markers or train our muscles for every possible scenario. But we can use them to optimize how we search. I use Control+Space as my trigger shortcut for Alfred, as this combination isn’t used elsewhere already. Here are some of the things you can do:.

Type the name of any application on your Mac, then hit Enter to launch it. Hit the apostrophe key (‘), then type any file name, hit Enter to open, or Shift to get a preview of the file. If you type ‘find’ instead of the apostrophe, it opens in Finder. For basic math calculations, simply enter numbers with the according symbols, hit enter to copy the result to your clipboard. Type ‘define,’ followed by a word, to get its dictionary entry. Type any phrase you want to search for with Google, then hit Enter to open a new tab with the search. If you use Cmd+2 you can search Amazon instead, Cmd+3 browses Wikipedia.

Search for names of contacts and view their data in the Contacts app. Here’s another 30-second demo: There’s a you can purchase for, but so far, I’m doing fine with the basic version. You might still have to search, but using shortcuts and typing, you can drastically shorten the path from A to B and eliminate most distractions along the way.

Transportation and communication are leading characteristics of our modern society. We’re relying on individual mobility and instant exchange of information in our economy, and we’ve learned about the importance of renewable energies when sourcing power for it.

Pioneers and entrepreneurs have shown already that travelling is possible with zero CO2 emission by utilising technologies like the fuel cell or photovoltaic cells. Research and development in universities and industries is constantly improving the components which enable e-mobility. Today we see electric propelled cars driving on our roads like the Smart fortwo electric drive or the Tesla Model S. They mark an important transition in individual transportation, moving more and more away from fossil energy towards renewable, electric energy. However, these cars need to charge their batteries from a regular power outlet. Universities around the world, and other pioneering teams, are already building electric cars that can source all their energy needs on the go – completely off-grid.

While these cars are lacking the comfort of a modern limousine, they are purpose built to compete in race events like the biannual World Solar Challenge in Australia, where they show remarkable results. Built with the latest high-tech components, they mark the entry gate to emission free mobility. The same is true for other teams and organisations aspiring to achieve in the same spirit on the water or in the air. Gochermann Solar Technology plays the important role of providing these organisations with photovoltaic panels that meet the needs of ‘green’ vehicles in development and production with respect to technical and aesthetic design prerequisites.