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! 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 …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Sep 2, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Four time US Memory Champion Nelson Dellis has done a fascinating interview with expert language learner Gabriel Wyner. Gabriel is author of the GREAT book Fluent Forever—an invaluable guide to help you learn languages more easily and remember what you’ve learned. If you would like to join Ne …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Aug 26, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week This week, we’ve been having a blast reading about our body’s other “brain”—which, you might be surprised to learn, is in our gut. Over the years, we ourselves have learned to tune in to our gut when we’re making decisions—if there’s a little bit of an “off” feeling down belo …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Aug 19, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! A Sneak Peek Into Barb’s New Book Barb was recently on Dave Goldberg’s radio show—she let slip some intriguing insights related to her forthcoming book Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential, (coming next April from Penguin!). Feel free to pre-order …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Aug 12, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month We’re going to switch things up today and start our email with a fantastic book we’ve just finished: The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance, by Josh Waitzkin. Waitzkin is a world champion chess and martial arts expert–his book provides a fantastic desc …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Aug 5, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Growth Mindset Here’s a wonderful visual that exemplifies how to reframe negative thoughts about learning into more empowering and helpful mindsets. (Hat tip: Fern Kushner.) Shifting your or your child’s thinking can have all sorts of long term positive effects on their brain and their life. …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jul 29, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! An App to Help with Daily Math Practice Last year, Learning How to Learner Greg Edmunds was struggling to learn Mandarin, even as he was carrying out a 70 hour a week work schedule. This led Greg to our Learning How to Learn course, which ultimately lead him to design and develop a series of …
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