2 Key Emotions in Learning: Confusion & Curiosity
Highlights Curiosity & Confusion are 2 of the most powerful emotions in education. 🤔Curiosity leads to exploration and filling one’s knowledge gap.😕Confusion leads to deep …
6 Universal Words across most Languages
Some words are “universal” words because they are shared by most languages or understood by most people. Here are the different kinds of universal words and how they emerged.
Managing Social Anxiety for Networking Events
Social anxiety – a feeling of tension, self-doubt, and stress emerging from actually interacting with people and the idea of interacting with people. This can …
Neural Circuits of Productivity Uncovered
The 100 billion neurons in the brain create circuits that help us be productive. These are 5 main neural circuits that are responsible for our productivity.
The Era of Meta-Skills: AI can’t replace these
For eons we have been a civilization that used skills to adapt and adjust. We used skills to alter our environment by building things. One …
AI has a Personality, but it doesn’t mean anything… yet
I just read this preprint[1] in which researchers have adapted a standard personality test (a version of the OCEAN Big 5 model) to assess LLMs’ …
Gain fluency in a new language at record speeds (How-to)
These are 4 techniques to gain fluency in a new or second language. They are contextually built on top of basic learning principles relevant to the brain.
Sciency Guide to Expert-level Memory Skills
At the simplest level, memory can be viewed as a 3-step process – encoding, storage, and retrieval. But you’ll see the story gets a lot …
Core Financial Concepts in Psychology
Psychology and economics are closely related. Here are 7 dominant concepts in psychology that affect financial behavior.
Your brain on Productivity: Thinking & Doing modes
When we think of productivity, we often think about productivity habits, focus, and getting work done efficiently. There is enough good and bad advice on …
Digital Civics: Threats, Hygiene, Netiquette (Part 2)
We’ll do a visual recap of the first part first. Since we are talking about good behavior, naturally there is bad behavior. These are the …
Digital Civics: Concepts & Human Interaction (Part 1)
We seek people out on a URL instead of IRL pretty much all the time. So we need to know what is considered good behavior, …
Why Music is so Important, psychologically
Here’s a quick overview of why music is so important psychologically. These are summarized from a large body of research that looks at the role music plays and how music alters the brain.
DIY Upskilling: 10 psychological insights
Here are 10 learning principles from psychology and cognitive science that will affect your upskilling & DIY learning journey. Most employees will need to re-skill at some point. This will speed it up
Is AI making us smarter Or dumber?… Or artificially smarter? (AI symbiotic crisis)
I’ve been thinking about memes. 2 years ago, I called meme templates, meme phrases, and reel content outsourced cognition – borrowing others’ structured thoughts. Using …
Seeing a face? It’s Pareidolia
Here’s an explanation for a fascinating phenomenon known as pareidolia – seeing faces where there are none. I’ve explained how and why it happens.