How To Use a Coach Effectively
"I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches." — Harvey Penick What you get from coaching is largely up to you. Whether it’s a teacher, a mentor, a sports...
View ArticleTickler List of the Mind
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” — Albert Einstein Jotting down one-liner thoughts is a simple way to turn insight into action. I come across “ah-has”...
View ArticleHBR as a Source of Insight
HBR (Harvard Business Review) is one of my favorite sources of insight. HBR basically helps you learn how leaders are shaping the practice of business, while drawing from stories, case studies,...
View ArticleHow To Read Faster
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss I promised my readers to share ways to read faster. I originally posted this...
View ArticleWe are All Rocket Surgeons
“The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.” — Donald B. Calne The Motley Fool has a way with words. Their mantra is simple...
View ArticleHow To Read 10,000 Words a Minute
“You’re the same today as you’ll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.” — Charlie “Tremendous” Jones What if you could double your reading speed in two days? What if...
View ArticleTim Ferriss Interview on The 4-Hour Chef
Tim Ferriss’ new book The 4-Hour Chef is now out. I had the pleasure of talking with Tim Ferriss about his new book. The 4-Hour Chef is more than a cookbook — it’s a cookbook for life. As you may...
View ArticleThe Gamification of Education
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Marc Ashbrook on how gaming is playing a new role in education and learning. It’s the gamification of education. What if you could play your way through...
View ArticleWhat Do You Know?
What do you really know about a subject or topic? You can easily test yourself, and expose your gaps. When you fill in the gaps, you take what you know deeper. You internalize it. It’s a process of...
View ArticleThe Power of The Learner First Approach to Change the Education System for...
Editor’s note: Did you know that in some school systems, it’s “OK” for 20% of students to fail? For some people, that is NOT OK. This is a very special guest post by Joanne McEachen of The Learner...
View ArticleDo You Make the Most of the Books You Read?
I was reading The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness. It’s a new interpretation on Epictetus’ original work by Sharon Lebell. The following point about The...
View Article7 Ways to Ramp Up New Team Members Fast
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss Many moons ago when I joined the Microsoft Developer Support team, it was a...
View ArticleHow To Learn Anything Better
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi If you want to learn any subject well and to create ideas beyond those that have existed before, return to...
View ArticleLearning Plateaus
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” — Frederick Douglass Sometimes when we learn something new, progress happens slowly and quietly in the background. Sometimes we hit learning plateaus....
View Article10 Big Ideas from Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
“Becoming is better than being.” — Carol S. Dweck What if you could break the chain of limiting thoughts about who you are and all you could be? What if you could embrace challenges, struggles,...
View ArticleThe Skimming Way
“He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.” — Arthur James Balfour If you want to read faster, you need to know how to skim. If...
View ArticleWhy Start a Blog
“Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn.” – Scott Adams Why start a blog? There are many reasons to start a blog, but here are a few: Working on your blog is working...
View ArticleBuild a Learning Culture with Powerful Questions
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates If you want better answers, ask better questions. If you want to create a culture of learning and improvement, then...
View ArticleThe Best Books I Read in 2015
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx I can’t believe it’s another year gone by. I was reflecting the...
View ArticleLearn Anything in 20 Hours
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi What if you could learn anything in 20 hours, what would you learn? Would you learn how to dance? Would...
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