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Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with.” Today, writing well is more important than ever. Far from being the province of a select few as it was in Hemingway’s day, writing is a daily occupation for all of us — in email, on blogs, and through social media. It is also a primary means for documenting, communicating, and refining our ideas. So what can we do to improve our writing short of hanging ourselves? Going From One-Size-Fits-All Education, To One-Size-Fits-One. In June of 2009, after Michael Jackson died, I decided it was time to learn how to moonwalk.
I went to YouTube and found the “How to Moonwalk” video with the most hits, a simple 2:15 minute homemade job by Montreal DJ AngeDeLumiere. The video proved to be a lesson not only in a dance step but in transformative pedagogy. Ange begins by showing us what we think is the way to do the moonwalk. He’s right. That is exactly how I used to think it was done. The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do. Writing is a muscle.
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In our case, two employees, both incredibly creative, were having a difficult time working with each other. The root cause of the conflict was a fundamental difference in the way they saw and interacted with the world. Development experts refer to this as a person’s temperament. Vive la differénce. What Makes You Tick. What Makes You Tick. Connectome by Sebastian Seung Book Trailer.
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The interaction of those sequences with a class of key proteins, called transcription factors, can vary significantly between two people and are likely to affect our appearance, our development and even our predisposition to certain diseases, the study found. The discovery suggests that researchers focusing exclusively on genes to learn what makes people different from one another have been looking in the wrong place. "We are rapidly entering a time when nearly anyone can have his or her genome sequenced," said Michael Snyder, PhD, professor and chair of genetics at Stanford. "However, the bulk of the differences among individuals are not found in the genes themselves, but in regions we know relatively little about. 105 Writing Tips from Professional Writers - StumbleUpon.
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