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11 Nov 09

A Wandering Mind Heads Toward Insight - WSJ.com

article from Kelly about benefit of unlocking, unleashing your mind.

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08 Sep 09

How to Escape Perfectionism - Peter Bregman - HarvardBusiness.org

perfectionism holds us back, holds our org back.

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  • Icelanders aren't afraid to fail — or to be imperfect — and so they're more willing to pursue what they enjoy.
  • "There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write," Weiner writes.
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24 Aug 09

The Power of Mindful Learning (1997) by Ellen J. Langer (Gurteen Knowledge)

7 myths of education that undermine learning

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  • 1. The basics must be learnt so well that they become second nature. <br>

    2. Paying attention means staying focused on one thing at one time. <br>

    3. Delaying gratification is important. <br>

    4. Rote memorisation is necessary in education. <br>

    5. Forgetting is a problem. <br>

    6. Intelligence is knowing "what's out there." <br>

    7. There are right and wrong answers. <
21 Apr 09

Writing About Values Lifts Some Students’ Grades - NYTimes.com












  • Some seventh graders who were struggling in class did significantly better after performing a series of brief confidence-building writing exercises, and the improvements continued through eighth grade, researchers reported Thursday.

  • Yet the results were surprising, because interventions to improve school performance tend to have short-term benefits, and the writing assignments were simple 15-minute efforts.
11 May 08

The Educated Giant - New York Times

A third reason is that Chinese believe that those who get the best grades are the hardest workers. In contrast, Americans say in polls that the best students are the ones who are innately the smartest. The upshot is that Chinese kids never have an excuse

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