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Thinking Fast and Slow: How the Brain Works by Noble Prize winner Daniel Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. The fast system is intuitive and emotional, The slow system is more deliberative and more logical. This highly anticipated book can help you better understand your own thinking and make better decisions.
Read entire post...Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention WIll Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn by Cathy N. Davidson (© 2011, Viking Penguin: New York, NY) shows how the phenomenon of attention blindness shapes our lives, and how it has led to one of the greatest problems of our historical moment. […]
Read entire post...The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, (©2010, CROWN: New York, NY.) is about six everyday illusions that profoundly influence our lives. They are the illusions of attention, memory, confidence, knowledge, cause, and potential. These are distorted beliefs we hold about our minds that are not […]
Read entire post...Reform your science program one activity at a time with Dr. Thomas O’Brien’s three volume Brain-Powered Science: Teaching and Learning with Discrepant Events effort for grades 5-12. It is a cerebral treat for science teachers, science students, and science teacher educators alike. At the heart of each activity is a hands-on discrepant-event, which provides an […]
Read entire post...InThe Zig Zag Principle: The Goal-Setting Strategy That Will Revolutionize Your Business and Your Life, Rich Christiansen (© 2012 Mountain Grabbers, a McGraw-Hill Company: New York, NY) offers a goal setting strategy that he believes will revolutionize your business and your life. This book is a step-by-step tactical book. It is not a theory or […]
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