Over the last several months my reading habits have shifted. While I used to read almost entirely non-fiction, I’ve since made a switch to mix fiction and non-fiction. This was a strategic decision, and I believe it has been paying off. I’d like to share some of the benefits I’ve found of reading good fiction. […]
How to Teach Yourself Anything in Less Than Three Months
Listen to this article Self-education can be wonderful and frustrating at the same time. If you go about it correctly, you can teach yourself anything in just a few months. Poorly applied, however, self-education can be a stressful nightmare. I’d like to share my tips to achieve the former and avoid the latter. My self-education […]
How to Debug Your Brain
Intelligence is the ability to predict. Learning is taking the results of past predictions and applying it to future predictions. Stupidity is ignoring the results that don’t match your predictions. Therefore, it seems there are a lot of stupid people. I’m always amazed at how passionately attached people can become to a political ideology. Capitalists […]
11 Easy Ways to Improve Memory
Helping me on the site today is Todd Goldfarb. He wrote this guest post and is a writer at We the Change. As we get older, the neurons in our brain lose elasticity making it easier to forget things. Although this is an unfortunate reality all humans face, there are a myriad of lifestyle activities […]
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