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“A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well, is the chief instrument of cultural change.”
― Richard Rorty

In New York, people speak fast. In the American South, they speak slowly. Both of them are a form of politeness, understood in a different way. In New York, you speak quickly because you respect the value of the other person’s time and you don’t want to take up too much of it. In the South, you speak slowly because you want to respect the person by... See more

Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?

The educational psychologist Kirsti Lonka compared the reading approach of unusually successful doctoral candidates and students with those who were much less successful. One difference stood out as critical: The ability to think beyond the given frames of a text (Lonka 2003, 155f).

Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking

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Joseph Zoderer • Wir gingen: Erzählung (Raetia Club) (German Edition)

When the activity is made safer, they behave more recklessly, at least partly nullifying the safety gains.

Michael W. Preis • 101 Things I Learned® in Business School (Second Edition)

Adults are more likely to judge one-sided arguments as superior to those that present both sides of a case, and more likely to think that such arguments represent good thinking.

Maria Konnikova • Mastermind

Several times the pair were arrested for minor traffic infractions, and each time Franklin, whose command of German was excellent, talked their way out of a fine.

Jean Edward Smith • FDR

The more widely spoken your language is, the less likely you are you learn another one. English is the most widely spoken language

r/language - Reddit

At the university level, introversion predicts academic performance better than cognitive ability.