Note: This is a guest post from Scott Young of Learning on Steroids We’ve been taught how to study, but not how to learn. That’s the only conclusion I can draw when I watch otherwise intelligent people spend hours cramming…
Note: This is a guest post from Mark Harrison of Effortless Abundance First – a sweeping statement. Everyone wants success and happiness. We might not agree about what this means – each of us defines ‘success’ and ‘happiness’ in a…
In The Importance of Being Smart, I wrote how smart people can achieve much more – with much less effort – than those who just work hard. There’s a comment there by Frode that I’d like to discuss: … lazy…
In The Medici Effect (here is my review), there’s a term I’m interested in: the Intersection. It’s a place where ideas and experiences from different fields meet and form new ideas. It’s a fascinating place to be because excitement from…
Note: This is a guest post by Jered Slusher of Copper Copy Everywhere I go, I have this little green monster telling me what I should and should not do. The monster criticizes everything and tells me that if I…
There are some interesting comments in the post The Importance of Being Smart and here I’d like to discuss one of them. It’s a comment by Chew: I have something to add to being smart. It’s about beginning with the…
I recently watched the movie Red Cliff II. It’s about a famous battle in the Three Kingdoms era in China. The battle was between Cao Cao who had about 800,000 soldiers and Liu Bei – Sun Quan alliance who had…
Have you ever faced a situation where you need to choose between two good options? When one option is good and the other one is bad, making the decision is easy. But when both options are good, it’s often difficult…
Improving my mind has always been one of my interests. That’s because I believe that the quality of the mind has significant influence on success. But of course, improving the mind can’t be separated from knowing how the brain works.…
Do you want to have good, high-quality ideas? In this age of knowledge, having good ideas can separate you from others and put you ahead of the pack.But how can we get high-quality ideas? As it turns out, a great…
