How to have more confidence, emotional str
EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT IT MEANS to flinch. Example: You pretend you’re going to slug me, and I twitch or blink. I flinched.
creativity index
"The most powerful way to develop creativity in your students is to be a role model. Children develop creativity not when you tell them to, but when you show them." Robert J. Sternberg in How to develop student creativity Site closing: This site has been active since 1997.
How to think positive. You can think posit
WHEN A PERSON THINKS a negative thought and tries to get rid of it, that person is thinking positively negatively. Daniel M. Wegner of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, has conducted a long string of experiments that show the futility and actual danger of trying to get rid of thoughts.
creativelinks
Leslie Owen Wilson 1997, 2005, restrictions on usage See companion course WebPages Creative Thinking and Living "Niente Senza Gioia" (nothing without joy) Of all my pages and parts of this website, the biggest surprise was the traffic I have received in the creativity section. Everyone has a story, a question, a comment, and yet this is a sorely neglected area in schools, in our children's training and education.
How to be an ex
« Dignity is Deadly, Part Two | Main | Don't forget square one... » How to be an expert The only thing standing between you-as-amateur and you-as-expert is dedication. All that talk about prodigies? We could all be prodigies (or nearly so) if we just put in the time and focused. At least that's what the brain guys are saying.
Critical Thinking On The Web
Top Ten Argument Mapping Tutorials. Six online tutorials in argument mapping, a core requirement for advanced critical thinking.The Skeptic's Dictionary - over 400 definitions and essays.
Why smart people defend bad ideas - scottberkun.com
[First published April 2005] We all know someone who’s intelligent, but who occasionally defends obviously bad ideas. Why does this happen? How can smart people take up positions that defy any reasonable logic? Having spent many years working with smart people I’ve cataloged many of the ways this happens, and I have advice on what to do about it. I feel qualified to write this essay as I’m a recovering smart person myself and I’ve defended several very bad ideas.
17 creative websites to bookmark (unless you are dumb)!
At the risk of having you never come back to this site, I have compiled a list of 17 other sites to feed your creative appetite. Dozens more could have been added to this list (perhaps there will be a sequel to it). Most of the sites included here do not get the credit they deserve, and even the popular ones deserve even more attention.
Becoming What We Are - Robert Anton Wilson
Becoming What We Are By Robert Anton Wilson If you stroll through a large art museum, you will notice that Van Gogh does not paint the same world as Rembrandt, Picasso does not see things the way Goya did, Georgia O'Keefe doesn't much resemble Rivera, Salvador Dali looks like nobody but himself, and, in general, no world-class artist became a "classic" by doing what somebody else had already done or even what everybody else in his/her own era did. And in science, the names of Einstein, Dirac, the Curies, Bohr, Heisenberg, Schroedinger, John Bell etc. live on because none of them took Newton as Holy Gospel: they all made unique and unpredictable innovations in basic theory.
ToolKit (TM)
The How-To of DirectedCreativity DirectedCreativity is creativity for serious, action-oriented people. The DirectedCreativity ToolKit is a wide-ranging catalogue of practical methods from the field of creative thinking and innovation in business. The map below is your guide. Just point, click and explore.
How To Stop Procrastinating
Be inspired to overcome procrastination. Now in beta, BuddyHive.com links random buddies to be accountable to each other as they achieve small tasks. Click above, write in a task, and we’ll find a buddy to support you on your way. Procrastination is the intentional and habitual postponement of an important task that should be done now. Procrastination is fostered by habit.
HOWTO: Be more productive (Aaron Swartz: T
Translations: 日本語 | Русский | Беларуская “With all the time you spend watching TV,” he tells me, “you could have written a novel by now.” It’s hard to disagree with the sentiment — writing a novel is undoubtedly a better use of time than watching TV — but what about the hidden assumption?
