7 Memory Skills That Will Make You Smarter

7 Memory Skills That Will Make You Smarter

Good Will Hunting chalkboard Learning ability is probably the most important skill you can have.  Take it from Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel, authors of ” Make It Stick: The Science Of Successful Learning .”  “We need to keep learning and remembering all our lives,” they write. “Getting ahead at work takes mastery of job skills and difficult colleagues … If you’re good at learning, you have an advantage in life.”  And […]

How Smart People Solve Unsolvable Problems

How Smart People Solve Unsolvable Problems

rubix cube See Also Here’s What Happened When A Coach Improved Every Tiny Thing By 1% Here’s How Smart You Have To Be To Succeed 4 Simple Ways To Achieve Rapid Success Richard Feynman won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest physicists of all-time. (He was a pretty solid bongo player as well). [1] Feynman received his undergraduate degree from MIT and his Ph.D. […]

How People Learn

Despite his best efforts and long hours, Nobel-Prize winning physicist and professor Carl Wieman grew frustrated by his inability to teach and his students’ failure to learn. When I first taught physics as a young assistant professor, I used the approach that is all too common when someone is called upon to teach something. First I thought very hard about the topic and got it clear in my own mind. Then I explained it […]

Three Secrets of Organizational Effectiveness

How the practices of “pride builders” can help you build a high-performance culture. Illustration by Lars Leetaru When the leaders of a major retail pharmacy chain set out to enhance customer satisfaction, market research told them that the number one determinant would be friendly and courteous service. This meant changing the organizational culture in hundreds of locations—creating an open, welcoming atmosphere where regular customers and employees knew one another’s names, and any question was […]

How Much Can Your Employees Get Away With?

How Much Can Your Employees Get Away With?

I was baffled. It was years ago, during my first semester as a physics and math teacher at a last chance Brooklyn public high school. I could be as clear as day about my intentions, what I wanted from the kids, my reasons, and the consequences for non-compliance, and yet the kids did whatever they wanted. But after a while, they started to fall in line. What was happening? One of the benefits of […]