Charlie Gedeon
@charliegedeon
Reflecting on how learning and creativity are shaped by technology and our interactions with it. Co-founder of Pragmatics Studio, a small digital design studio in Montreal.
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Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.... See more
David Foster Wallace,
Nix đ ⢠carry yourself lightly
Benjamen Zander - Leadership on Display
youtube.comRaising Thoughtful & Curious Kids and Provocative Teaching Advice
Inspiring ability to make learning something difficult more rewarding. This man is a genius at making youth and learners feel great about failing.
âAll the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.â â Elliott Erwitt
Raising Thoughtful & Curious Kids
From the article:
Engage them early in lively conversation.
Play âcard, board or videogames that âbuildâ working memory.
Stress the intrinsic rewards of learning rather than grades.
Frame a bad grade as a reason to work harder.
Enroll them in schools where intelligence is seen as fluid rather than fixed.
Teach them that their ability is under their control.
On Children
poets.org
One marker that Iâm seeing someone clearly is when I understand how their strengths are also their weaknesses, how their genius lives right next to their dysfunction. I know that Iâm further away from clarity when I am overly excited or overly skeptical.
Graham Duncan Blog ⢠Whatâs going on here, with this human?
Your success as a designer depends equally on your relationships as it does on your design talent . The powerful people you need as allies will likely know little about design and you will have to teach and persuade them. Your amazing ideas and concepts canât help the world if they are never built by your organization. Your ability to explain your ... See more
Scott Berkun ⢠Design talent is a distraction
Psychology was focused on measurable, outward behavior then. I thought to myself: Thatâs not what I want to understand about my thoughts. What I want to know is: Why do they come, where do they come from, and why do they persist even if they interfere with attention to the here and now?
Tim Vernimmen ⢠The science of a wandering mind
When used properly, metaphors enhance speech. But correctly dosing the metaphorical spice in the dish of language is no easy task. They âmust not be far-fetched, or they will be difficult to grasp, nor obvious, or they will have no effectâ, as Aristotle already noted nearly 2,500 years ago.