Believe it or not, I heard this quote the other day while I was watching a baseball game. The color commentator, who, as color commentators usually are, is a former major league ballplayer, said it in reference to his belief that it is important for new, young ballplayers on a struggling team to show that …
“How You Walk Between Classes Shows Me How Much You Want To Learn” Read More »
You may recall that a few months ago, I wrote about the launch of my membership site, and how the launch did not go according to plan. One of the consequences of this challenge is that I was not able to time the launch for when you would be most interested in accessing the additional …
In my first post about memorization, which I wrote just after the death of Alex Trebek, I used the example of Jeopardy! to prove that there’s more to memorization than simply knowing the facts. I stressed that what makes Jeopardy! clues so varied, interesting, and memorable is that while some of them do only test …
Why Memorization Gets Such a Bad Rap – And What You Can Do to Change It Read More »
In my last post, I wrote about the fresh start a new school year provides, and the opportunity it gives you to make changes that can help you see greater success than before. Since I hadn’t done so at the beginning of the previous school year, I focused on the beginning of the first grading …
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