Here’s a little video (18min) of Dan Pink giving a TED talk on motivation. Very interesting stuff in here, and it’s along similar lines to the motivation posts I’ve put up previously, but with some extra stuff I haven’t covered before. Thanks to Jeremiah Reandino for bringing this to my attention!
Archive for January, 2010
Is it possible to learn Spanish in a month? I’ve wanted to learn a second language for a long time, and finally decided to actually get around to doing it. But to make it fun (and also because I’m a little impatient), I’m going to try to learn Spanish, to conversation-level, in one month. And [ Read More ]
Categories: Uncategorized
Ever heard of the idea that for some illnesses and disorders to develop, you need to have an inherited risk factor plus environmental stress? It’s known commonly as the diathesis-stress model (diathesis basically means predisposition), and it’s a common explanation for a large range of phenomena, from schizophrenia to serial murder. Both diathesis …
Categories: Positive Psychology
A friend sent me an interesting text message the other day. He asked: “What’s your biggest time-waster?” I replied with only three mysterious words: “The Grey Zone”. In case you’re wondering, he said his biggest time-waster is figuring out what my cryptic texts mean. What is The Grey Zone? The Grey Zone is limbo. …
Categories: Study Skills
In the previous article on emotional intelligence we saw how an intelligence is based on the ability to think in abstract ways, and to learn and adapt to an environment. Maybe you’d previously heard about how we have multiple intelligences; IQ, social intelligence, practical intelligence, emotional intelligence, and so on. What distinguishes these intelligences from [ Read More ]
Categories: Positive Psychology
…all of the time. Forgive the title, I’m experimenting with controversial post titles. More on that another day. Today the topic is self-help again, and if you’ve read this blog regularly, you’ll know that I take a skeptical attitude towards the self-help industry. A quick inspection of the self-help section of a bookstore …
Categories: Positive Psychology, Self-Help
There’s a recent post up at Cal Newport’s blog that’s very interesting. He discusses the study strategy of a man known only as Ricardo. His method is to using a wiki app installed on his iphone to type his notes onto. He then whips out his iPhone whenever he’s got a spare …
Categories: Study Skills
Welcome to the sixth edition of the Psychology Articles Carnival! The Psychology Articles Carnival, predictably enough, is a blog carnival showcasing posts relating to scientific psychology from the previous month. Often they will be articles I’ve come across and want to tell you about, but psychology bloggers are free to submit their own articles for [ Read More ]
Categories: Psychology
You have probably heard the term ‘Emotional Intelligence’ before, probably along with bold claims like “emotional intelligence matters twice as much as IQ” (1), or 80% of success is accounted for my emotional intelligence. But leaving the hype aside for a moment, what exactly is emotional intelligence, and is there any truth to these …
Categories: Positive Psychology
We’ve recently looked at Baddeley and Hitch’s working memory model, which they first proposed back in 1974 and has been through a few changes since then. For an overview of the working memory model, see this article, and there’s another one looking at the strengths of the model. Here’s a quick look at …
Categories: Psychology
