Did you think you were bad at math? Maybe it was the way you learned it.
Richard Rusczyk believes we teach math in a rote, uncreative way that does not offer practice and experience in creative problem solving.
http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/blog.php?u=1163
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Sunday, July 20, 2014
Feel like you "should" have chosen a great job? Not that simple
Feel like you "should" have chosen a great job from the time you were younger but missed out on the opportunity? Not that simple. You didn't necessarily "mess up."
"Economist Neil Howe says that only 5% of people pick the right job on the first try. He calls those people 'fast starters' and in general, they are less creative, less adventurous, and less innovative, which makes a conventional, common path work well for them. So it's questionable whether you should even aspire to be one of those people who picks right the first try."
Many people who really like their "job" or careers or lifestyles or whatever you want to call it stumbled into it.
Gilbert says you need to try stuff to see what will make you happy. Do that. It's scary, because it's hard to find out that what you thought would make you happy will not make you happy. But then, it's true that being a realist is not particularly useful to human evolution either.
These days we often overestimate how great other jobs are due to the hype surrounding them. We live in an age in which it is easy to create glossy marketing, put shiny pictures and a great website together about careers which often belie the true nature of the field. Colleges and training schools do this sort of glamour marketing constantly so that the tuition keeps rolling in.
Also, many jobs require schooling/training that was not offered to you or did not even exist while you were in college or 20-something trying to figure out what you wanted to be when you grew up.
For example, when I was in college in the 1990s, Earth Science or Enviornmental Science was unheard of at my school. "Green," "Eco-," "renewable," and "sustainable" were not buzzwords yet.
Also:
"Economist Neil Howe says that only 5% of people pick the right job on the first try. He calls those people "fast starters" and in general, they are less creative, less adventurous, and less innovative, which makes a conventional, common path work well for them. So it's questionable whether you should even aspire to be one of those people who picks right the first try."
Lifehacker - How to pick a career you actually like
http://lifehacker.com/5978475/how-to-pick-a-career-you-actually-like
"Economist Neil Howe says that only 5% of people pick the right job on the first try. He calls those people 'fast starters' and in general, they are less creative, less adventurous, and less innovative, which makes a conventional, common path work well for them. So it's questionable whether you should even aspire to be one of those people who picks right the first try."
Many people who really like their "job" or careers or lifestyles or whatever you want to call it stumbled into it.
Gilbert says you need to try stuff to see what will make you happy. Do that. It's scary, because it's hard to find out that what you thought would make you happy will not make you happy. But then, it's true that being a realist is not particularly useful to human evolution either.
These days we often overestimate how great other jobs are due to the hype surrounding them. We live in an age in which it is easy to create glossy marketing, put shiny pictures and a great website together about careers which often belie the true nature of the field. Colleges and training schools do this sort of glamour marketing constantly so that the tuition keeps rolling in.
Also, many jobs require schooling/training that was not offered to you or did not even exist while you were in college or 20-something trying to figure out what you wanted to be when you grew up.
For example, when I was in college in the 1990s, Earth Science or Enviornmental Science was unheard of at my school. "Green," "Eco-," "renewable," and "sustainable" were not buzzwords yet.
Also:
"Economist Neil Howe says that only 5% of people pick the right job on the first try. He calls those people "fast starters" and in general, they are less creative, less adventurous, and less innovative, which makes a conventional, common path work well for them. So it's questionable whether you should even aspire to be one of those people who picks right the first try."
Lifehacker - How to pick a career you actually like
http://lifehacker.com/5978475/how-to-pick-a-career-you-actually-like
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Monday, July 14, 2014
"Kodak" Larry Bird
Bill Simmons on the visual memory of Larry Bird:
"Bird and Magic went the other way — if they made their teammates better, it gave them a better chance to win. Like Jordan, they were basketball savants who possessed a supernatural feel for what should happen collectively on every play, as if they had already studied the play’s blueprint and come up with a plan of attack. Unlike Jordan, their genius was inclusive — just by playing with them day after day, their teammates started seeing the court like they did. Bird’s first Celtics coach, Bill Fitch, affectionately nicknamed Bird “Kodak,” explaining to a writer that Bird’s “mind is constantly taking pictures of the whole court.” You could have said that about Magic, too. That’s what made them such devastating passers; they always knew where every teammate would be.
"Bird and Magic went the other way — if they made their teammates better, it gave them a better chance to win. Like Jordan, they were basketball savants who possessed a supernatural feel for what should happen collectively on every play, as if they had already studied the play’s blueprint and come up with a plan of attack. Unlike Jordan, their genius was inclusive — just by playing with them day after day, their teammates started seeing the court like they did. Bird’s first Celtics coach, Bill Fitch, affectionately nicknamed Bird “Kodak,” explaining to a writer that Bird’s “mind is constantly taking pictures of the whole court.” You could have said that about Magic, too. That’s what made them such devastating passers; they always knew where every teammate would be.
And maybe it took a few years, but Bird and Magic parlayed that particular gift into something more meaningful. Bird learned how to fully harness “it” during the 1984-85 season; for Magic, “it” didn’t happen until two seasons later. And here’s what “it” is. Each guy could assess any basketball game — in the moment, on the fly — and determine exactly what his team needed."
from God Loves Cleveland
by Bill Simmons
http://grantland.com/features/god-loves-cleveland/
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