Posts Tagged ‘ability’

How to use natural selection to drive your career

Charles Darwin was one of the greatest scientific geniuses of all time. His Theory of Evolution is accepted just about universally in the scientific community. It explains that all life is driven by a process that he called Natural Selection.

Life is a constant competition for survival. When creatures reproduce, tiny changes and imperfections are introduced into the next generation. Most fail. But a few, a very few, successful… » Continue

April 16 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: ability, development, workstyle | 2 comments»

Time to Challenge Your Beliefs

“It ain’t what a man don’t know that hurts him
. . . it’s what he knows that just ain’t so.”
~ FRANK HUBBARD ~

Some people think that they have no chance of ever living the kind of life they want. Maybe someone in their past told them that they would… » Continue

December 18 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: ability, accomplishment, belief, career, success | 4 comments»

A.V. Squad Rocks!

If you pay much attention to media trends (Especially Oprah Winfry and Bill Gates who is king of the geeks) you’ll notice a growing fervor concerning the state of education in America. They site falling test scores and dropping graduation rates as proof of their claims.

Their solution…

more time in the class room
more classes in general
better textbooks
better teacher training programs
raise performance standards

Unfortunately they are wrong.

In my opinion Jean Piaget (the late)… » Continue

August 11 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: ability, action, children, mental, thinking | 6 comments»

“But I Can’t…”

How often each day do you tell yourself, or others, you can’t do something? Is it true? How do you know you can’t? What if you’re limiting yourself without knowing it? What if you’re lying to save face or avoid embarrassment? » Continue

November 28 2005 | By Adrian | Tagged: ability, action, article, habit, learning, Management, motivation, performance, success, todo, work, work-life | 11 comments»

Most of us overrate our own abilities

There are dangers if we overrate our own abilities. For instance, one overrates his/her driving ability (or/and car capability) by cutting into corner way too fast, the car goes under-steer and crashes. Medical News Today has a good article on talking about overrating our abilities can have serious consequences. In the article, one of the studies by Dunning showed that:

… “People tend to believe their personal risk of becoming ill… » Continue

October 9 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: ability, decision, evaluation | no comments»