I’m a big fan of self education and these videos shared by a friend on Facebook were very enlightening. I think you can learn a lot from them. There’s four videos (they’re actually just audio on Youtube), roughly 10 minutes each. I know, long hey? Sorry. But it’s roughly the same length as your TV favorite show, weird. And you’re going to learn a lot about your mind. Let me know what you think (haha! Not literally).
Doubling Your Brain Power (Part 1 of 4)
“Our kids are going to be ruined! All they do is text, Facebook and Youtube all day.” “This generation is growing up to be stupid!”. “Whatever happened to talking in person and going an hour without checking your cell phone?”.
How Is a Bad Radio Station Like Our Public-School System? (A Freakonomics Podcast Encore)The Freakonomics Radio Podcast is one of my favorites by far (subscribe here on iTunes). The show’s about Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner exploring the “hidden side of everything”. Along the same lines of their two wildly popular books, Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics (I highly recommend reading both).
If we forced kids to play boring video games all through school and into University they probably would hate video games when they graduate.
If we forced kids to play boring sports all through school and into University they probably would hate sports when they graduate.
How can we expect kids students to love reading when we’ve forced them to read boring textbooks all their lives?
Why does your business exist? Is it to just make money? Or is it more than that? In Simon Sinek’s Start With Why he explores the idea of looking beyond what product your company is selling, and focus on why your company is selling it. The absolute core purpose of your company, the reason it exists.
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