Tiffani Burkett is trapped in an interesting predicament: whilst overcome with anxiety, she desires to continue her life as a motorcycling enthusiast. As “an intellectual, not an athlete”, she motivates herself by setting little rewards instead of hyping herself up aimlessly; instead of “you can do it!”, she thinks “if you do this, you can get some of that fancy hand-churned ice cream with the peanut butter cups”. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
