Get your brain in motion
In his Ted Talk, Dan Pink examines the science of motivation. Most managers don’t know what has been ascertained by social scientists: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think.
Dan Pink has published the book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, which uses 50 years of behavioural science to overturn the conventional wisdom about human motivation and offer a new path to high performance.
A recent TED Talk has been delivered by Daphne Koller who is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free — not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn.
Peter Diamandis is the co-founder and chairman of Singularity University which runs Exponential Technologies Executive and Graduate Student Programs. Singularity University is pushing the frontiers of human progress through innovation and emerging technologies, looking to greater longevity and better health. In this recent TED talk, Peter Diamandis makes a case for optimism: “I’m not saying we don’t have our set of problems; we surely do. But ultimately, we knock them down.”
Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script — give students video lectures to watch at home, and do “homework” in the classroom with the teacher available to help.
[…] imagine what that does to the adult learner who’s embarrassed to go back and learn stuff that they should have before […]
How can something as simple as a smile be so deceptively complex? That’s the mystery and magic explored in Smile: The Astonishing Powers of a Simple Act, which explores the sensation and science of the smile. From the broad beaming grin of a toddler to the oily smirk of a used car salesman, smiles convey an enormous range of emotions. Grins also have radically varied meanings in different cultures, as the author learned during his many worldwide trips to explore the complicated, but ubiquitous, act of smiling.
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