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"Is the ping of a text stealing our focus or do we just lack willpower? And could mindless scrolling ever be good for our brains? Elle Hunt unpacks some surprising truths..." Via Leona Ungerer 
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“The purpose of life is to discover your gifts. The meaning of life is to give your gifts away” — David Viscott
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It's virtually impossible to imagine life without learning. We come into the world armed with little more than a bunch of primitive survival instincts, but it’s thanks to our ability to learn that we start adapting to the environment, going from helpless infants into semi-autonomous children before maturing into young adults. Still, when it comes to how we learn, most of us differ considerably at every stage in that process. Now scientists are learning more about that variation and what's behind it.
Psychologists have studied learning for over a century, but research in this area has really taken off in the last two decades. Most studies indicate that our personalities largely determine the ways we like to learn. In other words, who we are shapes how we learn. Here's what some of the latest research has uncovered about the most common learning styles and the ways we can learn to our fullest potential.
Via The Learning Factor
Ricard Lloria's insight:
Here's what the latest psychological research says about learning styles and the things that shape them.
michel verstrepen's curator insight,
August 6, 2015 11:52 AM
Here's what the latest psychological research says about learning styles and the things that shape them. 
Dean J. Fusto's curator insight,
August 6, 2015 12:59 PM
Here's what the latest psychological research says about learning styles and the things that shape them. 
vgpascal's curator insight,
August 7, 2015 8:18 AM
Here's what the latest psychological research says about learning styles and the things that shape them. |
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Find it hard to advocate for yourself? You’re not alone. The personality trait that psychologists call “agreeableness” describes how motivated you are to get along with other people. If you’re highly agreeable, that motivation can sometimes prevent you from sticking up for your own interests. Anytime you ask for something at work, you run the risk that you’ll be told “no”–and possibly aggravate the person you’re asking. As a result, agreeable people may be put off from asking in the first place.
This can be a problem, because research suggests that agreeable people tend to make less money than disagreeable people (even accounting for the fact that disagreeable people lose their jobs more often). And in leadership roles, agreeable people may not be as good at getting their teams all the resources they need. So what can you do to be more assertive even when it just isn’t in your personality to do so? Here are a few tips. Via The Learning Factor
The Learning Factor's curator insight,
October 3, 2017 5:47 PM
It’s your job to ask for things. Here’s how to be more comfortable with getting what you want.
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Most people won’t admit it, but we size up other people's characters all the time. In fact, research suggests that it takes just 30 seconds to make up our minds about someone’s intelligence and personality (we make other assessments even faster) and that these evaluations are surprisingly accurate.
In one study, researchers showed participants short videos of different couplesinteracting, and participants were able to detect which individuals had cheated on their partners. Likewise, observers watching videos of randomly selected speed daters were able to infer participants' level of romantic interest. Even when the people being evaluated are children, observers can infer their character with a similar degree of accuracy than the children’s parents do.
So the idea that you can’t judge a book by its cover is inconsistent with the evidence: People, it seems, are fairly transparent and we can see through them pretty easily and accurately Via The Learning Factor
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August 25, 2016 6:41 PM
On average, humans are pretty good at assessing each others' characters, but those who aren't still tend to think they are. |
