What happens when you realize what you could have done, you didn’t do? There’s a sense of guilt or anger toward others and things, but there’s only one responsible. You. This thought crossed my mind when I saw my students performance on the last practical class before...
And curiosity leads to further discoveries about the nature of reality which may produce an impact in our lives. Consider grapes. In a recent article on the NYT, James Gorman synthesis the research of plasmas generated by grapes in a microwave. An fun fact shared by...
Every time we think about how hard learning is, we tend to forget the possibility such learning opens to us. “Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn,” says the title of John C. Maxwell’s book. This means we never lose but learn. It requires a mindset change detaching...
Yesterday I experienced the power of mentoring in my classes. Before I was sad with the lack of commitment of my students, and I wondered what could I do to engage them. First I recognized my failure. If they weren’t engaged, I wasn’t persuasive enough. But then I...
Addiction affects learning and I’m not referring to drugs, but a substance we produce in our brains. Dopamine. We can look at this from two different perspectives. The negative one is not working on our learning when we have the chance, like in a class, and opt...
