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68. The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal
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16 Jul 2018
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9. The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey
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Writing in the 1970s, Timothy Gallwey comes eerily close in The Inner Game of Tennis to what modern cognitive scientists... Read more
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Edward de Bono is an expert on creativity, author of over 40 books on the subject. He invented the term "lateral thinkin... Read more
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10. Flow by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
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What's the best kind of experience you have? When do you feel happiest? Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (pronounced me-HIGH CHEE... Read more
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3. Don't Shoot the Dog! The New Art of Teaching and Training by Karen Pryor
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75. What great teachers have in common
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58. The Use of Lateral Thinking by Edward de Bono
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3 Mar 2018
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4. Cesar's Way by Cesar Millan
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57. Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir
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Although ostensibly about economics, this book is in fact about the effect of poverty of various kinds on the mind. Pove... Read more
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72b. John Wooden and cognitive science
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79. What learning is
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72a. Star coach John Wooden's pedagogy
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John Wooden was a basketball coach for UCLA and an English teacher. He is renowned as one of the greatest coaches of all... Read more
20 Jan 2019
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60. Dual N-Back: The best "brain training"?
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In the previous episode, we looked at a range of articles concerning the effectiveness of so-called "brain training" in ... Read more
12 Mar 2018
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81a. The Myth of Learning Styles
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17. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
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The funny thing about Malcolm Gladwell is that everyone seems toenjoy reading him, but few remember many details of what... Read more
2 May 2016
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64. What Bruce Lee taught me about learning
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A while back, I listened to an interview with Bruce Lee*. There were two things that I took away from it, neither of whi... Read more
7 May 2018
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74c. Dealing with difficult children
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When she was working at Delano Elementary School in Chicago, Marva would often be given the "worst", most disruptive stu... Read more
23 Oct 2019
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2. Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
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11 Jan 2016
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73e. Escalante - the glory years
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After the events of summer 1982, when Jaime Escalante's Advanced Placement Calculus students were accused of cheating an... Read more
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11. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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21 Mar 2016
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