Sublime

I believe Lebow and Spitzer are right; consciously or unconsciously, all too often we use feedback to try to mold other people into how we believe they should be.

Each student was allocated to one of three groups. The first group had a discussion about a social issue for ten minutes. The second undertook tasks such as a comprehension test and a crossword puzzle. And the third, the control group, watched a ten-minute extract from Seinfeld. All the students then undertook tests of their mental processing and w

George Danzig was a graduate student in math at Berkeley. One day, as usual, he rushed in late to his math class and quickly copied the two homework problems from the blackboard. When he later went to do them, he found them very difficult, and it took him several days of hard work to crack them open and solve them. They turned out not to be homewor

Allen’s superpower is that he’s a problem solver. And as long as he is intellectually challenged by the problem and is meeting interesting people and learning how things work, there’s almost no one better at turning chance into opportunity.

For the most part education systems inhibit creativity and are organized on the false assumptions that life is linear and inorganic.

Deviations from expected values to determine mental advantages and disadvantages

The reason Dr. Schwartz examines family history so carefully is that he sees family background as fundamental to a person’s outlook on career.

Milton Erickson.