How to Help Them Succeed Anyone who doubts that children are born with a healthy amount of ambition need spend only a few minutes with a baby eagerly learning to walk or a headstrong toddler starting to talk. No matter how many times the little ones stumble in their initial efforts, most keep on trying, determined to master their amazing new skill. It is only several years later, around the start of middle or junior high school, many psychologists and teachers agree, that a good number of kids seem to lose their natural drive to succeed and end up joining the ranks of underachievers. For the... Subscribe Now Get TIME the way you want it One Week Digital Pass — $4.99 Monthly Pay-As-You-Go DIGITAL ACCESS — $2.99 One Year ALL ACCESS — Just $30!
REVERSESTICK COACHING.COM Bounce: How Champions Are Made by Matthew Syed - a Book Review by Rachel Fanshawe I was slightly disappointed that there wasn't a single book for me under the tree this Christmas, especially as I'd been relying on it for my holiday reading. Luckily my husband had packed several, and top of the pile was Bounce : How Champions are Made by Matthew Syed. It proved to be both enjoyable and stimulating, and a book that I would highly recommend. Practise, practise In Bounce, Syed makes a compelling argument that success at the highest levels is not a result of talent but of many hours of purposeful practice combined with the right mindset. Syed's own story makes a fascinating start to the argument. 'I had powerful advantages not made available to hundreds of thousands of other youngsters... 10,000 hours An incredible 10,000 hours of practice is now widely acknowledged in sporting circles as being a pre-requisite for elite performance. Syed also address the question of the child prodigies. The 'growth mindset'
What makes us unique? Not genes so much as surrounding sequences The key to human individuality may lie not in our genes, but in the sequences that surround and control them, according to new research by scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Yale University. 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. Snyder is the senior author of two papers — one in Science Express and one in Nature — exploring these protein-binding differences in humans, chimpanzees and yeast.
You Don’t Agree With Me? Good! A recent situation at work reminded us of the challenges leaders face when they bring people together with different perspectives and temperaments. 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 Temperament theory goes way back--all the way to Hippocrates. People with a predominant Fire temperament are into passion, performance, freedom from hindrance, and making a splash.People with a predominant Earth temperament are into duty, responsibility, stability, and social identity.People with a predominant Water temperament are into people, empathetic relationships, causes, and promoting the greater good.People with a predominant Air temperament are into logic, rational thinking, knowledge, and whatever work they hold sacred.
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do. Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get stronger. Think of your words as reps, your paragraphs as sets, your pages as daily workouts. Think of your laptop as a machine like the one at the gym where you open and close your inner thighs in front of everyone, exposing both your insecurities and your genitals. Because that is what writing is all about. Procrastination is an alluring siren taunting you to google the country where Balki from Perfect Strangers was from, and to arrange sticky notes on your dog in the shape of hilarious dog shorts. The blank white page. Mark Twain once said, “Show, don’t tell.” Finding a really good muse these days isn’t easy, so plan on going through quite a few before landing on a winner. There are two things more difficult than writing. It’s no secret that great writers are great readers, and that if you can’t read, your writing will often suffer.
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. Alvin Toffler calls this method of instruction “unlearning.” Ange’s video is a great model of teaching and a great metaphor for the kind of educational change we need to embrace right now. But if learning is the issue--and especially learning in an age of information abundance--then we have to unlearn that old model. Take the example of learning a new sport. Whenever I speak before large gatherings of corporate trainers, they tell me they can recruit anyone now, in this economy; the very best students from the very best universities.
25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview, Hem replied, “Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. 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? 1. Don’t just plan to write—write. 2. [The] Resistance knows that the longer we noodle around “getting ready,” the more time and opportunity we’ll have to sabotage ourselves. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
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