Charlie Gedeon

As companies increasingly embrace automated products and services, they need to understand how those things make their customers feel about themselves. To date, however, managers and academics have usually focused on something quite different: understanding what customers think about those things.

Learning means being able to use new information. The basic process of learning consists of reflection and feedback. We learn facts and concepts through reflecting on experience—our own or others’. If you read something and you don’t make time to think about what you’ve read, you won’t be able to use any of the wisdom you’ve been exposed to.

The direction language models indeed prompt you to follow (pun intended) often leads you somewhere boring — to the land of averages

A mentor who doesn’t frequently say 'I don’t know' needs to be replaced.

An asset-based approach to teaching asks, “What ideas do these students have ?” rather than “What ideas do these students lack?”

I think it is more helpful to talk about the underlying processes: spontaneous thought, or the decoupling of attention from perception, which is what happens when our thoughts separate from our perception of the environment. Both these processes take place during mind-wandering and daydreaming.

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.

David Foster Wallace,

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When you write about the subject, your task is to remember with crystal clarity how bored you were when you first tried to understand it.