"Beyond IQ: Youngsters Who Can Focus on the Task at Hand Do Better in Math", from Christie Nicholson, 2007-03-26, via Scientific American

Citation added: May 30th, 2007, 11:39 pm
630 words about how "executive functioning", the ability to concentrate (working memory and inhibitory control), helps in mathematical reasoning as early as preschool. Well, duh.
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psychology | intelligence | productivity | education

Study Guides and Strategies - Thinking like a Genius

Citation added: January 2nd, 2007, 5:08 am
The following eight strategies encourage you to think productively, rather than reproductively. "These strategies are common to the thinking styles of creative geniuses in science, art, and industry throughout history".
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genius | thinking | creativity | productivity | psychology | mind | toread | selfimprovement | intelligence

OEDb - Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better

Citation added: December 4th, 2006, 4:25 am
If someone granted you one wish, what do you imagine you would want out of life that you haven't gotten yet? For many people, it would be self-improvement and knowledge. New knowledge is the backbone of society's progress.
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lifehack | toread | learning | foodforthought | intelligence | psychology

ScienCentralNews - Talent vs. Practice

Citation added: October 6th, 2006, 3:26 am
Is talent something you're born with or can practice really make you perfect? Experts on expertise, who've studied the minds of experts in fields from sports to medicine, have the answer. And they're applying it to life or death situations.
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toread | psychology | learning | intelligence

Mainstream Science on Intelligence, via the Wall Street Journal

Citation added: October 28th, 2005, 11:34 am
A bunch of "researchers on intelligence" I've never heard of signed on to this consensus statement about "conclusions regarded as mainstream" among them, in the wake of the Bell Curve book.
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