Posts Tagged ‘multiple intelligences’

Check out the NPR story to hear of a man who looked for hope and found it in abundance for sick people who had lost theirs. Do you hold hope in tough times? Research shows how hope lives within more areas of the human brain than once recognized.
No question, it takes focus to spot hope [...]

You’d be surprised at the most famous YouTube talent out there, as Lauren Luke fits few of the tips we see for talent or for stars.

OK, I’ll agree that make up is not central to most of us. Yet Lauren may be onto something that we each hold in common – turning what you do [...]

If you believe IQ is fixed, then it could well be so for you, because of the way belief fuels or limits mental plasticity and brainpower. Want more intelligence by the end of today though? Then simply act on one or more of your multiple intelligences, and expect your dendrite brain cells to reconfigure for [...]

Your brain’s equipped to do far more with even the most basic belief, that you nudge into action. Multiple intelligences, for example, offer tools to move beliefs into action for a finer world. It often takes insights that come from daydreaming. According to Robert Lee Holtz, Wall Street Journal Science Columnist, Researchers found that sudden [...]

Ask,  How smart are you? and a person tends to respond negatively and in numerical scores. This question – as worded above – increasingly causes problems, because of new facts that identify differing areas where several intelligences reside in human brains.
Unlike  general intelligence ideas, that guided test writers, we now know that people who are [...]

Do you lie about age, or do others find inspiration from your maturity?
Do predictable answers fly from your tongue like corn pops over heat, or do you investigate new insights about aging and weigh different viewpoints?
Would friends describe you as gracious and set in your ways, or as alive and curious?
Myth has it that aging [...]

How we situate images of war affects how our brains wire to support or reject it. Replace words such as war on terror with expressions that grow stronger communities, and our brains shift from expectations of violence to proposals for peace across differences. Imagine a place of prosperity where no brain is left behind, and [...]

Take your brain back to the last lecture or meeting you endured, and you’ll likely agree with research that shows how lectures work against human brains.  It’s the same for meetings where few people talk for the most part. You retain less than 5% heard in lectures, while you retain more than 90% of what [...]

While merging cultures becomes increasingly urgent, and while firms often unite to tackle turbulent times, it’s also true that not all amalgamations stand up to stifling challenges that follow.
Have you observed merges that left people and profits in the dust?
Lately, I’ve been wondering why so many unions slip off their golden tracks so soon after leaving the gates with a top prize in [...]