Sublime

Many people hear the story of T. V. Raman and think, What an amazing genius he must be to have succeeded against such odds! Though Raman is assuredly amazing, this is the wrong lesson to take from his journey. He is no more or less a genius than Jennie McCormick, or Alan Rouleau, or Susan Rogers, or any of the other dark horses in this book. He did

Configure an education system around the notion of collective intelligence and you make a powerful statement about your desire to help young people learn how to organize themselves to solve shared problems as well as developing themselves.

Helping students to develop states of mind conducive to different kinds of learning, specifically using their intuitive as well as rational selves. 5 Encouraging learners to understand which tools tend to help in certain situations and how to know when to use these. 6 Providing students with effective strategies for learning and working collaborati

Once someone has reached an IQ of somewhere around 120, having

based on what you know about each person.

Social neuroscientist Matthew Lieberman points out that a leader who is both technically competent and highly personable is somewhat of a unicorn.

one mindset – how bright you think you are and how much you believe that effort matters.

The educational theorist David Kolb, for example, believes that one can learn by being a converger (one who is strong in the practical application of ideas, approaches learning in an unemotional fashion, and has relatively narrow interests), a diverger (one who has a strong imagination, is good at generating ideas and seeing things from different p