20 Ways To Supercharge Your Ability To Learn
earning occurs best when important information is selected from less important ideas, when selected information is organized graphically, when associations are built among ideas and when understanding is regulated through self-testing" Know the rules your brain works by and general tips for getting smarter. A negative attitude increases motivation to learn. Cheerful students think they're doing well but have lower GPA's. Good moods can harm your memory. Being social before a test increases performance. Testing yourself is the best way…
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41 Simple Ways To Make Yourself More Creative
re's what the scientific research says: Travel. Or just expose yourself to other cultures. Or stay where you are and learn their language. Don't surround yourself with the color red, stick to blue. Get rejected. Buy a potted plant. Give the problem to someone else. Or pretend you're solving problems for someone else. Or pretend you're a child. Think about love, not sex. Take a break. And stop being so hard on yourself. Smile. Or frown while happy. But either way, be happy. Or a…
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Would your team be more more creative if members were less experienced?
aming experienced people with the less experienced can result in better performance than either could do on their own. Those who are new to a subject stimulate creative thinking in those who are more accomplished. Via Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To: Experienced people benefit from hearing the thoughts of those who are less skilled in areas other than the business world. Pairing two university students of lower and higher…
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10 Keys To Job Satisfaction, Backed By Research
ght now most people are unhappy with their jobs. A boring job can give you a heart attack. And those with no job are happier than those with a lousy one. Most people want to leave their jobs because they don't trust their employer. Know what the happiest and unhappiest jobs are and what motivates you. "...the strongest determinants of job satisfaction are relations with colleagues and supervisors, task diversity and job security." Job satisfaction isn't just about your job.…
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Are stories we can relate to the key to learning?
a Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success: In 2003, Greg Walton and Geoffrey Cohen, two American psychologists, devised an intriguing experiment. They took a group of Yale undergraduates and gave them an insoluble math puzzle to work on—but with a small catch. Beforehand, the students were asked to read a report written by former Yale math student Nathan Jackson. This was ostensibly to provide the students with a bit of background information on the math department,…
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10 ways to make sure you never choke under pressure
what we can do to prevent it? Distraction. Choking is frequently caused by thinking when we shouldn't be thinking. Counting backwards from 100 has been shown to occupy the conscious mind and allow competitors to perform uninterrupted by worries. Adapting to self-awareness. By repeatedly being videotaped while performing, subjects adapted to being watched and no longer found themselves choking. So regular practice in front of an audience (or whatever type of pressure you expect to deal with) can reduce anxiety.…
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The 18 Minute Ritual That Will Make Your Day Dramatically More Productive
a 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done: STEP 1 (5 Minutes): Your Morning Minutes. This is your opportunity to plan ahead. Before turning on your computer, sit down with the to-do list you created in chapter 22, “Bird by Bird,” and decide what will make this day highly successful. What can you realistically accomplish that will further your focus for the year and allow you to leave at the end of the day…
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Here’s Why People Gossip So Much
ssip helps police bad behavior in a social network and relieves stress. About 15% of office emails are gossip: According to some estimates, the average corporate email user sends 112 emails every day. About one out of every seven of those messages, says a new study from Georgia Tech, can be called gossip. Negative gossip is nearly 3 times as prevalent: Still, another finding was that "negative" gossip, characterized through a Natural Language Text Processing analysis, was in fact 2.7…
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