11 Tips to Carve Out More Time to Think

“The person who reads to much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking” - Albert Einstein

How much time do you get a week to just think? Not while listening to music, driving your car or during group brainstorms. Not while playing video games, doing chores or taking a shower. Just you and your brain.

I’d wager that few people ever average… » Continue

January 10 2008 | By Scott H | Tagged: creativity, gtd, ideas, learning, Productivity, smart, think, time, weekly review | 18 comments»

Believing You Can Get Smarter Makes You Smarter

Intelligence is found as malleable than fixed.

Even better, psychologist Aronson has found out if people learned about IQ’s malleability, they will become smarter than the ones without learning about this message.

Several other researchers used this and applied to a research with seventh-grade students, and the results prove for itself:

… Indeed, students who were members of vulnerable groups (e.g., those who previously thought that intelligence cannot change, those who had… » Continue

November 14 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: intelligence, smart | 3 comments»

Unskilled and Unaware of It

Alan Bellows has noted an interesting phenomenon - average person tends to believe he or she is better than average. Alan highlights two men’s predictions on their investigation and those predictions are well proved by their study:

Justin Kruger and David Dunning made the following predictions before beginning their investigation:

1. Incompetent individuals, compared with their more competent peers, will dramatically overestimate their ability and performance relative to objective… » Continue

March 27 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: competence, smart | 2 comments»