The creativity of mind maps

Many of us - myself included - considered the concept map be the brain child of UK educator, Tony Buzan (1988), which we knew as a "min...

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The cult of toxic positivity

The idea of workplace toxicity "spans a wide spectrum that includes subtle and indirect signals" (Bhat et al., 2021, p. 2017).  An...

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Mindset and the mind-body connection

Mindset can be defined as an “implicit theor[y] of intelligence [which] distinguishes people who believe intelligence is unchangeable (i.e.,...

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The meh meh meh voice

We all get that voice in our heads from time to time: you know, the "Meh meh meh" voice with a nasally whine which tells us we ...

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The vagaries of memory

We have all heard how eye witness testimony can be wrong: where witnesses can go from 100% sure to being proven to be gob-smackedly incorrec...

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Super Mario and Mindset

While looking for something completely different, recently I ran across this TEDx talk by Mark Rober, on - what he calls - the "Super...

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Fixed Mind vs Growth Mind

(Winkler, 2014) Stanford University professor Carol Dweck has identified the growth mindset as being one where efforts are praised in ...

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Time to Reflect

Using time is an interesting way of thinking about practice. Chris Argyris and Donald Schön did that in 1978, proposing a two stage proc...

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