Sublime

The psychologist James Marcia argues that there are four levels of identity creation. The healthiest people have arrived at what he calls “identity achievement.” They’ve explored different identities, told different stories about themselves, and finally settled on a heroic identity that works.

beware of mistaking past accomplishments and experience for future potential. Background and talent determine where people start, but character skills shape how far they can climb.

The single most important skill and most undervalued capacity for exercising adaptive leadership is diagnosis.

Another tool to consider is Gallup’s CliftonStrengths,

l’Américain Jerome Bruner (1915-2016), a réalisé des travaux complémentaires à ceux de Vygotski

there is no research supporting the notion that children differ radically in their preferred learning modality. What is true is that some teaching strategies work better than others—but when they do, this superiority applies to all of us, not just a subgroup.

The essential idea behind personal construct theory is this: All individuals are essentially scientists erecting and testing hypotheses about the world and revising them in the light of their experience. Those hypotheses are called personal constructs, and they are the conceptual goggles through which we view the world.14