Perhaps the most powerful contribution of cognitive psychology to human understanding has been its careful mapping out of the many ways in which we self-deceive. Our minds are expert confabulators, […]
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The more complex challenge you have, the more relationship matters, the depth of the relationship between the teachers and student.
This is the basis of what we call creativity: not a deus ex machina scrawling on a tabula rasa, but the mind’s constant search for interesting new ways of grouping the data we’re constantly taking in.
For many career seekers, “follow your passion” can be a terrifying piece of advice, mainly because the word passion conjures up images of intense, frenzied activity better suited to an […]
I think one of the keys to success is being quick to respond and that’s been a truism in business for a very, very long time. Opportunities don’t last forever […]
A dormant tie is somebody that you had a meaningful history with at some point but have lost touch in the past few years.
“Red and dead” might describe the stars in most ellipticals, but this nearby galaxy tells a different story. “The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and […]
We need to step back and have a morally robust debate about where markets belong and where they don’t.
I’m not good at language learning. It’s the method. And that method can be copied.
Pleasure is absolutely central to human behavior because it’s evolutionary ancient.
More users of space mean more and better infrastructure to continue to improve the ability of small organizations, students and ordinary people to access the stars. Which means we’d better get used to future rocket launches setting new satellite deployment records and making the skies glitter with ever more little points of light.
Understanding biases in your decision-making is half the battle.
The highlights of the greatest Winter Constellation of them all. “I discerned huge Orion, driving wild beasts together over the field of asphodel, the very ones that he once had killed […]
Of all the galaxies in our local supercluster, one outweighs them all. “I recognize my limits, but when I look around I realise I am not living, exactly, in a world […]
Recent examples from major media outlets targeting harmless individuals demonstrates a major ethical failing – as compassionate persons and responsible writers, commanding a platform. This doesn’t mean writers must never […]
Talent isn’t everything. In fact, some of the most robust findings to come out of developmental psychology over the past decades have identified self-control – the ability to harness, train, […]
Whatever your position on ADHD, the psychological research is clear on one thing: focus and self-control are essential life skills that translate into just about any definition of success you can come up with.
Health is not going to come from the health care system. Health is going to come from each one of us where we live, eat, work, play and pray focusing on how to do the right thing.
When Fast Company came out with its 96 lessons for 2013 from leaders across the business spectrum, I expected to find a stereotypical list of lifestyle changes and recommendations for […]
Like the rest of the country, feminism has undergone one percent-ification. The most discussed books on women’s lives speak to privileged women while usually assuming, if only by default, to […]
We’re not short of things we can believe in.
For me, serendipity is about the chance encounters and the people and ideas that can really change this world.
Human beings or businesses are global and human beings are semi-movable. That creates a real challenge, especially when you move into the realm of digital businesses.
The anticipated pain and the fear of what might happen by coming out is less scary than a life in the closet.
The current research that is most exciting is aimed toward understanding how the brain looks now at the connectivity between specific areas.
How do we get more and more people involved in creative class work using their minds, using their creativity?
Big Think Mentor connects world-class mentors with a global community of smart, driven users to teach the habits of mind and people skills we need to live happier, healthier, more productive lives.
It was the most promising idea for where new physics might lie. Now that the LHC data is in, is it dead? “The revolution is not an apple that falls when […]
Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being.
I just came to realize that what we got involved in and what I had been supporting was turning education into a desiccated, data-driven, anti-human activity and this would not encourage the love of learning.