Starting anything new involves mistakes. Tons of them, if you plan on being good. Although you are supposed to learn from your mistakes, there are a few that often go ignored. These mistakes accompany the first phase of anything and it is easy to repeat them in everything new that you do. I don’t claim […]
Friday Links 07-09-07
From the Web How to Learn More and Study Less – An article I did for ZenHabits on Holistic Learning. Made the front pages of Digg, Delicious, Reddit and got a lifehacker mention. 18 Ways to Invest in Life – Part of my column at lifehack.org Overcoming Jealousy – An interesting article by Steve Pavlina […]
Social Courage: How to Meet New People
How do you approach new people and how can you start a discussion with them? Discover 5 suggestions on how to build social courage that worked for me.
Don’t Confuse a Degree with Learning
A few weeks ago I held an informal survey on this website. One of the questions was, “What do you want to learn?” I got back a myriad of responses but one trait stuck out. Many people answered that they wanted to get a particular degree or academic status. I’m worried when people start equating […]
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