Cheery Friday e-mails
Every Friday I send a “Cheery Friday” email chock full of insights about learning and changing to a million registered learners from the massive open online course (“MOOC”) Learning How to Learn. To receive these emails, just register for the course here (it’s free, and registration takes only a few seconds). “See” you on Friday!
No One Cares About Crazy People
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America by Ron Powers. Both of Powers’ sons were afflicted with schizophrenia, which fueled his desire to begin sorting out and writing about why there is such chaos in the US regarding treatment fo …
More >As You Wish
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride, by Cary Elwes. We’ve long been fans of the cult-classic movie The Princess Bride. After reading As You Wish, we had to watch the movie yet again, this time to observe where Westley gives a slight hobble ( …
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Catch and Kill
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Barb’s just back from several days working with Novartis in Basel, Switzerland. This post, by Chara Balasubramaniam, Head of Global Development University at Novartis, hints at the visionary work Novartis is doing related to learning at a corporate level. Tell Us About Your Experiences in Ou …
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Hit Lit! Top books of 2019
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Hit Lit! Top Books of 2019 for Learning How to Learners! Here are the books and tools that LHTLers have found to be most useful this year (not counting our own Learning How to Learn, A Mind for Numbers, and Mindshift, which of course ranked at the top!) Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outs …
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The Obesity Code
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss, by Jason Fung. We’ve met several friends lately who have shifted to eating only one meal a day—whatever they want during that meal—and have successfully lost, and kept off, dozens of pounds. One friend finally clued us i …
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Today, Barb’s giving the opening keynote for the Harvard-MIT-Dana Alliance Science of Learning Conference at 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM at The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA; with an advanced workshop that builds on these ideas at 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM. If you’re near Boston, don’t miss it! Book of the …
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Babel No More
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week Babel No More: The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners, by Michael Erard. For years, Barb has thought she would like to write a book about language superlearners. Babel No More is what she had in mind. This fascinating book begins with the story of le …
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Patient H. M.
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Mайстер-клас від Барбари Оуклі Barb’s just wrapping up her work for IE University in Madrid, Spain this week and, after a weekend visiting historic and beautiful Toledo, is off to Kyiv, Ukraine to work with and speak for Оsvitoria! Book of the Week Patient H.M. A Story of Memory, Madness, a …
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Crisis in the Red Zone
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come, by Robert Preston. We’ve been fans of Robert Preston ever since his gripping New York Times best-seller The Hot Zone first came out. Crisis in the Red Zone focuses on E …
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Powerful Teaching
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Greetings from Moscow, where Barb is speaking about learning for Sberbank. (Fun fact: if you’re sitting in the Radisson Collection Hotel in downtown Moscow, and type in “Your location” on Google Maps, you’ll see the location showing up as 40 kilometers away, at the Sheremetyevo Airport.) Book …
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