Fast Company
A time management coach’s surprising advice for the overly organized
3 min · · Forget all those time-devouring lists and flow charts—and just get the job done. · Shared by 182, including Jonathan Kogan, Doug Sundheim, Katja Evertz
Harvard Business Review
Learning Is Supposed to Feel Uncomfortable
4 min · · Every expert started as a beginner. · Shared by 124, including Ian M Calvert, tektology, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Ste Davies, Meghan M. Biro ⚡️, Dorlee Michaeli, MBA, LCSW, Thomas Wong, Gianluca Diegoli, Ines Bieler, Tom Martin, Jonathan Kogan, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Matthias Lampe, Jacob Jarnvall, Johannes Dornisch
Fast Company
These 4 ‘harmless’ habits are sapping your brain power
4 min · · Neuroscientist Tara Swart argues that snacking and comparing yourself to someone else can lessen your cognitive functions. · Shared by 129, including Gerd Leonhard, Yvette Dubel, Scott Williams, Nicolas Berg
Zapier
The 5 Best Time Blocking Apps in 2019
8 min · · Time blocking is a simple productivity method: Instead of completing your tasks whenever you find time to work on them, you schedule time on your calendar in advance to focus on specific tasks. The… · Shared by 52, including Francis Wade at JumpLeap, Rick Powell, Tom Connor, Francesco Forconi
Chris Spooner
Video Tutorial: Letterpress Poster with Overprint Effects
1 min · · Follow along with today’s how-to guide to create a letterpress style poster design with overprint effects. Authentic poster art of this kind would traditionally be created by hand on a letterpress… · Shared by 5
modernworkplacelearning.com
How to promote daily self-learning in the workplace
3 min · · There is, rightly, a lot of talk nowadays about “lifelong learning” and “continuous learning” but more often than not, articles focus on “lifelong education” or “continuous training”. In other words, they emphasise the need for continuous formal learning, and, in organisational terms, this implies providing more and more training or access to online course libraries. […] · Shared by 3, including Mike Taylor
medium.com
Learning vs. Performance: A Distinction Every Educator Should Know
4 min · · You’re teaching a concept in class, working through examples and explaining the steps. You have your students do some practice problems… · Shared by 3, including Mike Taylor
3starlearningexperiences.wordpress.com
What we already know determines what, how, and how well we learn
8 min · · Paul A. Kirschner & Mirjam Neelen No two people are the same, not even identical twins. Yes, even two people with exactly the same genes, growing up in exactly the same household, going to the … · Shared by 3, including Mike Taylor
digitalpromise.org
Ask the Cognitive Scientist
5 min · · Learn how distributed practice can help your students improve their recall and studying abilities from a cognitive scientist. · Shared by 5, including Mike Taylor, Mercedes Bent
medium.com
Memory & Learning Breakthrough: It Turns Out That The Ancients Were Right
16+ min · · Have you ever wondered… · Shared by 29, including Ward Plunet, Tom Connor, Mike Taylor
jarche.com
workers are already mature
2 min · · Posted 2019-04-30; filed under Performance Improvement. “Growth is not linear and it doesn’t happen in discrete phases marked by convenient external characteristics” — which is why maturity models are… · Shared by 4, including Mike Taylor
trainlikeachampion.blog
What are the elements of amazing learning experiences? There's a periodic table for that!
3 min · · If there could be a scientific formula for high quality learning experiences, maybe the elements for that formula could be found in this periodic table. · Shared by 8, including Mike Taylor
gapingvoid.com
Why Napoleon Was Undefeatable
· That’s what real camaraderie is: to like and respect the people who passionately share the same sense of mission that you do. · Shared by 3, including Mike Taylor
medium.com
Does Multitasking Really Tire Out My Brain?
4 min · · Scientists disagree that mental tasks like multitasking are more brain-draining than others. · Shared by 13
medium.com
Why Your Brain Needs Idle Time
4 min · · Research suggests that idle time, where the brain is wandering, is critical for complex mental processing. · Shared by 72, including Mike Taylor, Linus Basig, fnord, Marius Bleuer, Ward Plunet, Christophe Jean
Association for Talent Development (ATD)
3 Ways to Use Cognitive Biases to Boost Learning and Retention
3 min · · In the face of this enormous amount of daily input, our brains develop subconscious coping mechanisms that we can use to quickly make daily decisions.