(year of birth unknown)
U.S. writer“The problem with praising kids for their innate intelligence—the ‘smart’ compliment—is that is misrepresents the neural reality of education. It encourages kids to avoid the most useful kind of learning activity, which is learning from mistakes. Unless you experience the unpleasant symptoms of being wrong, your brain will never revise its models. Before your neurons can succeed, they must repeatedly fail. There are no shortcuts for this painstaking process.”
more infosource: How We Decide (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), 53–54.
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category: children, education, intelligence, parenting
medium: nonfiction
via: Trial and Error“Nothing restores my faith in humanity like a successful Craigslist exchange.”
more infosource: Twitter, 1:11 PM, Feb 25, 2010 via Twitterrific
category: Craigslist, faith, honesty, humanity
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“Wisdom isn’t cheap, and we pay for it with pain.”
more infosource: “Depression’s Upside,” The New York Times Magazine, February 25, 2010
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category: depression, pain, wisdom
medium: magazine article
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Jonah Lehrer