How to optimize your SNR
21 05 2008Ever heard about the signal-to-noise ratio? It’s a technical concept used to compare the level of a certain signal to the level of background noise. The higher the ratio, the clearer the signal gets through. To get a higher ratio you add signal and you remove noise. The same applies to life.
To optimize your SNR, you need to amplify what’s essential and eliminate what’s not. Of course, you could add more effective habits and remove the less effective ones. But I suggest you simply add some being and if desired remove some doing. When you add only a few minutes of being a day, what’s important to you will stand out more easily. Being works both ways. It tones down life’s background noise so this no longer obscures the signal you are desperately trying to decipher. And it amplifies the Universe’s unique signal to you, so you’ll know who you are and what you need to do.
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That’s great, norea! My partner and I are both sound engineers, so SNR is very familiar to us. That”s a really good analogy - I might pinch it some time! Too many people run around “doing” all the time and don’t take the time to find what’s real, I think.
Cheers - Robin
Enreal,
Great, isn’t it! All you need to do is just be still and listen…
Robin,
LOL! I learned the concept through design where one can apply it as well. I never met a sound engineer before, nor do I know anything about the field. I’m glad the analogy worked out well and is approved by an expert.
Hi norea - I didn’t know SNR was used in design! For sound work, if you think of a home recording on cassette tape… the signal is the music and the noise is the background tape hiss.
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I don’t know if it the term is generally used, but Garr Reynolds coined it in Presentation Zen. The concept of loosing redundant information to magnify your point is what good design is all about.
That much I knew ;-).
It sure is!!!