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!
Ryan Holiday’s books
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Books of the Week Lately, we’ve found ourselves caught up in Ryan Holiday’s thought-provoking books. We found a lot to like in his The Ego Is the Enemy, (Audible version here) which provides a refreshing break from today’s relentless onslaught of books about successful egotists. Ryan’s refle …
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Super Gut
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Books of the Month Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, by William Davis, MD. It is shocking how many syndromes are being connected to the gut biome—including not only autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis but even heart disease …
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The Hidden Life of the Basal Ganglia
Cheery Friday Greetings from Barb Oakley! Book Pick: The Hidden Life of the Basal Ganglia by Hagai Bergman. If you’ve ever wondered about the backstage crew running the show of your everyday thoughts and actions, The Hidden Life of the Basal Ganglia is a fascinating peek behind the curtain. Hagai Bergman takes readers deep into this underappreciat …
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The Scout Mindset
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Year! The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t, by Julia Galef. Critical thinking has stood for decades near the top of the World Economic Forum’s “10 skills needed to thrive in the fourth industrial revolution.” A real standout for us amongst the hun …
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The Story of Spanish
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month The Story of Spanish, by Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow. This fascinating volume gives a comprehensive overview of the Spanish speaking world and its history by using the unique lens of language. Beginning with how Spanish evolved from the remnants of Vulgar Latin in t …
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The Viking Heart
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World, by Arthur Herman. Seeing as how 23&Me revealed that Barb is roughly 70% Scandinavian, with intriguing dollops of Egyptian and Eastern European mixed into the gene-pool, she figured it was time to learn a bit more a …
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Top Books of 2021 on Learning How to Learn!
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Top Books of 2021 on Learning How to Learn! CorkScrew Solutions: How Great Leaders Solve Impossible Problems Negative Self-Talk and How to Change It P Is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem Think Aga …
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Trilingual by Six
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month Trilingual by Six: The Sane Way to Raise Intelligent, Talented Children , by Lennis Dippel MD. As the old joke goes: “What do you call a person who speaks two languages? “A bilingual. “So what do you call a person who speaks one language? “An American.” If you have young c …
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