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Super Memory

Citation added: April 22nd, 2008, 9:54 am
This website contains information about fast learning, memory, self-improvement, time-management, and more. The site was built around a new learning technology developed in Poland in the years 1982-2000 and commercially known as SuperMemo.
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memory | learning | productivity | brain | education | psychology

The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids, from Po Bronson, no date given, via New York Magazine

Citation added: April 2nd, 2008, 7:35 pm
3900 words reviewing the experimental psychological evidence against self-esteem and particularly praise for innate abilities; praise for being smart often translates into timidity and lack of persistence, citing Carol Dweck's work at Columbia with Lisa B
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psychology | productivity | education | self-esteem | carol-dweck | roy-baumeister

"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

The Myth of Prodigy and Why it Matters, from Eric Wargo, via APS Observer, 2006-08

Citation added: January 12th, 2007, 5:09 am
1900 words on Malcolm Gladwell's talk about why child prodigies don't matter.
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psychology | productivity | education

Beat the winter blues the Velten way, from Tom Stafford, 2006-12-14

Citation added: January 12th, 2007, 4:56 am
"The Velten Mood induction procedure consists of reading a series of statements which start neutral and get progressively more and more positive, or more and more negative."
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velten | psychology | productivity

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