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!
Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Nov 11, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month! We’ve always got our eye out for great books on how to be a more effective human being. This is how we stumbled on the fantastic Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It, by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz. This is a riveting book—Voss was the FBI’s le …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Nov 3, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Learning Styles Hurt Learning Our very own Terry Sejnowski hosts Professor Beth Rogowsky as she gives an outstanding analysis of how “Learning Styles Hurt Learning.” Beth’s own research on this is here: “Matching learning style to instructional method: Effects on comprehension.” The important …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Oct 28, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month Our top book this month is Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, by Tim Harford. We love this book, which speaks to the extraordinary power of serendipity and seeming sloppiness. One of our favorite writers, Adam Grant, summed Messy up this way: “Utterly fasci …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Oct 21, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week Many of you have written or posted in the past about problems with anxiety, depression, and guilt—common problems in this day and age. We’d like to recommend one of the greatest books around in dealing with these challenges: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, by Dr. David Bu …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Oct 14, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Improving Your Memory: Our recommended Books, and Podcast, of the Week We love Josh Foer’s great book Moonwalking with Einstein, about Foer’s dive into the world of memory competitions. But somehow we never realized that there are even deeper, yet still simple, ways to use the memory palace t …
More >Cheery Friday greetings from Learning How to Learn! Oct 7, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! An Important Book on Embracing Risk In Schools While Barb was in England visiting Bedales School earlier this year, she had the opportunity to meet Mike Fairclough, the Headmaster of West Rise Junior School, which won TES’s Primary School of the Year for 2015 in the UK. Mike has written a ver …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Sep 30, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! A Great New Language Hacking Series! As you all know, we’re great fans of Benny “The Irish Polyglot” Lewis—we love his insights into how to speed up, and keep up, your language learning. (You can find his bonus interview in our MOOC at the end of week 1.) Benny’s book Fluent in 3 Months tells …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Sep 23, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Help with Barb’s new book: Mindshift Barb’s new book Mindshift is a companion to Learning How to Learn. (Mindshift is one of Penguin-Random House’s lead titles for spring—pre-orders warmly appreciated!) The book romps around the world exploring how people broaden their passions and fall in lo …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Sep 16, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month This month’s book of the month is, drumroll, an incredible book that has over 5,000 reviews on Amazon with a near 5 star average—virtually unheard of! The book is Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People. As Barb’s daughter Rachel notes, “It’s beautifully writ …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Sep 9, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Read Books, Live Longer? Here’s an intriguing article by Nicholas Bakalar in the New York Times about research findings revealing that book readers live longer. “Compared with those who did not read books, those who read for up to three and a half hours a week were 17 percent less likely to d …
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