Topics about how people think and learn (especially children), and various tricks and techniques for teaching — not just school learning, but *life* learning.
If you’ve been following the Know Thyself entries in recent months, you’ll know that I’ve had trouble pursuing my goals in the last few years. Thanks to a few articles on StevePavlina.com, I’d tracked the problem down to a lack of purpose and context, but I didn’t know how to move forward from there. Trying …
Here’s some more on one of my favorite groups of people.
Lots of interesting stuff here.
I’ve long suspected something like this too. Depression just didn’t make sense unless it offers some kind of survival benefit.
Very interesting information here.
Neat information.
I really was born too late.
I wish one of these ideas worked for me, but once I get a song stuck in my head, it’s there for the duration. I can replace it with a different one, but there’s no “off” button on my mental MP3 player.
There’s good evidence that we all have multiple personalities — and that we can use that to understand ourselves and one another better: We used to think that the hard part of the question “How can I be happy?” had to do with nailing down the definition of happy. But it may have more to …
I’ve thought this for a long time. Interesting connection to psi research at the end though.