Saturday, June 8, 2019

The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything

“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.”— Mortimer Adler The famous Nobel winning physicist Richard Feynman understood the difference between knowing something and knowing the name of something and it’s one of the most important reasons for his success. -He pioneered an entire field: quantum electrodynamics...
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Friday, June 7, 2019

Seek assistance Through "Master Mind" group

“I don’t know anything about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world,” Henry Ford told the Chicago Tribune in 1916. During the world war, a Chicago newspaper published certain editorials in which,among other statements, Henry Ford was called "an ignorant pacifist." Mr. Ford objected to the statements, and brought suit against the paper...
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Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)

Enjoy yourself while you're still in the pinkEnjoy yourself, enjoy yourselfIt's later than you think. You work and work for years and yearsYou're always on the goNever take a minute offTo busy makin' dough Some day, you say, you'll have your funWhen you're a millionaireImagine all the fun you'll haveIn your old rockin' chair Enjoy yourself it's later than you thinkEnjoy yourself while you're...
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Making Of a Happy Genius

In 1973, four-year-old Susan opened the cupboard of their guest room and saw many chess pieces fell out of a small bag. Just next to them was a rolled-up chess mat. She took the mat out and looked at the pieces with the intrigue comparable to any other child of her age.  “What are these, Mummy?” Susan asked innocently, holding a piece in her hand and examining it. “These are chess pieces,...
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Thursday, June 6, 2019

Pygmalion Effect

The work of Rosenthal and Jacobsen (1968), among others, shows that teacher expectations influence student performance. Positive expectations influence performance positively, and negative expectations influence performance negatively. Rosenthal and Jacobson originally described the phenomenon as the Pygmalion Effect. “When we expect certain behaviors of others, we are likely to act in ways...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2019

The Secret of Happiness

When Gurdjieff (George Ivanovich Gurdjieff  was a mystic, philosopher, spiritual teacher, and composer of Armenian and Greek descent, born in Armenia, Gurdjieff's method for awakening one's consciousness  referred to it as the "Fourth Way")  was a small boy, his dying grandfather summoned his beloved protégé to be by his side....
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