True understanding comes not from being able to recite large passages of text or memorize large collections of equations, but from the deeper understanding that allows you to adapt to novel situations and create new…
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You use your learning ability to pick up guitar, speak another language, get through calculus, and adapt to a new job. It underlies almost everything we do. It makes sense then, that learning how to learn…
“Beauty fades, dumb is forever.” — Judge Judy What constitutes knowledge? I know that I have two hands, I also know how to make them type on my keyboard, and I know the language in which I’m…
We live from moment to moment, existing only in what we call the present, and having only a mental representation of what the past and future are. Do they exist? That really depends on what…
The “Intolerable corruption of human space.” — Luigi Russolo Take a second to listen to the world around you. Do you know what that is? It’s pollution. Maybe you were fortunate to have heard some…
“Here’s how I see boxing, the twelfth round comes, and you are sitting on your stool, and there is no way to describe how you feel. There’s no way to describe how tired you are,…
It was Jung that popularized the idea of introversion and extroversion in his Psychological Types. Jung made the distinction that introverts become exhausted by social interaction, whereas extroverts become anxious when left alone. Introversion and extroversion…
I like to just sit sometimes, and look out the window to the trees. At first, my mind will be on something obvious, something anyone else can see or experience — the birds, the changing…
What busy lives we lead. 24 hours in a day, what is that? A joke? Some sort of game to see just how crazy we’ll go when we realize we can’t get it all done? Well,…
Mindfulness is a word being thrown around a lot recently. Yet there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about what it is. To be mindful, in very general terms, is to be aware. Take…