And reach 681,022 readers. — “So you want to be an author now?” my dad said when I told him I’d quit my teaching job to become a writer. He looked skeptical. I felt empathy for his doubts. I doubted my plan as well as he did. It was May 2020, and I had spent…

These resources can help you expand your brain. — “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life,” Mortimer J. Adler said. I disagree. Books don’t magically make you live the good life. You can read a book a week without changing at all. Reading doesn’t help you per se — it’s reading the right books…

How to use this simple principle for you. — Books give you access to the smartest brains on our planet. And learning from the greatest thinkers and doers is your fast track to health, wealth, and wisdom. Yet, reading per se doesn’t elevate your life. You can read 52 books a year without changing at all. Social climber Dale…

Creativity is a choice once you manage your ideas. — When I started writing, I felt I had nothing worthy to say and that I’d soon run out of ideas. Two years and 300 articles later, I know I was wrong about both. Everybody has something worthy to share. And creativity is a choice. The following lines reveal how you…

Computerized flashcard programs make memory a choice. — How often have you read something thinking, “I should remember this,” only to forget it a couple of hours later? Don’t blame your memory. Forgetting is part of how our brains work. And contrary to common belief, our brains work not too different from each other (hint: learning styles don’t…

And how to fix it. — Knowledge management expert Tiago Forte writes: “Your professional success and quality of life directly depend on your ability to manage the information around you. […] Now, it’s time to acknowledge that we can’t ‘use our head’ to store everything we need to know and outsource the job of remembering to…

You’ll marvel at Estonia’s education system. — “At our schools, we don’t have homework,” 11-year old Ulvar told me during a school visit to Tallinn. I chuckled. Estonian students outperform all other European countries in PISA results — by not having homework? Ulvar wasn’t joking. Compared to other PISA participating countries, Estonian students have short school days…

Welcome to the post-pandemic reality of online learning. — Ten years from now, we’ll grimace at how we used to learn. While the past years have accelerated change, we’re still in the early days of a global learning revolution. In the next six years, analysts expect the global e-learning market to double, from $253 billion now to $522 billion…

Kate Robinson and Co-Author of Imagine if — Creating a Future for us All — “As we face an increasingly febrile future, the answer is not to do better what we’ve done before. We have to do something else . . . We must urgently re-imagine education and schools.” — Ken & Kate Robinson in “Imagine if…” You might know Sir Ken Robinson from his…