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!
Top books selected by Learning How to Learners from 2016 Dec 30, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! 2016 Book of the Year Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Elon Musk, by award winning feature writer Ashlee Vance, is our recommendation for Learning How to Learn’s book of the year. We love biographies, and this one is superb—we learn of Elon Musk’s difficult child …
More >Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Dec 23, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! A New “Cheery Friday” Book App! We’ve gradually realized that our book recommendations are among the most popular features of our “Cheery Friday” emails. We’ve gotten a lot of requests for access to our list. Your wish is our command! Our Learning How to Learn course designer, Kevin Mendez, h …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Dec 16, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Books of the Week This week, we’d like to recommend “Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics,” by Richard H. Thaler. “The creative genius who invented the field of behavioral economics is also a master storyteller and a very funny man. All these talents are on display in this wonderfu …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Dec 9, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week We have to admit that we’re fans of writer Tim Ferriss. Tim has a wonderful way of ferreting out fantastically interesting people—like Nicholas McCarthy, the only one-handed pianist to graduate from Britain’s Royal College of Music in its 130 year history. Or like Mark Andree …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Dec 2, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Books of the Week We have a “double-header” this week of two books to recommend. The first is the unusually titled The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, by Mark Manson. We love the cover description, which notes: “Manson makes the argument, ba …
More >Cheery Thanksgiving Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Nov 24, 2016
Cheery Thanksgiving greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week As you know, we’re big fans of biographies. And we’ve got an exceptional one to tout today: Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Schiff. Great biographies give a sense of what might have been happening behind the scenes in important times in history. While giving a sense of the …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Nov 18, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week We’re big fans of Steven Johnson, and we’re already engrossed in his brand new book—Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World. We couldn’t agree more with Johnson’s observation that you’ll find the future wherever people are having the most fun. Some of our previous favorite …
More >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 …
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