I remember sitting in a queue at JFK airport in New York waiting to take off. As I sat in the plane, I could see our plane stuck behind about six or eight other planes. They were all waiting to take off. And as we waited the weather conditions changed, causing the...

About six months ago, I downloaded an app that enabled me to relax. In a busy day, it puts you in a mild hypnotic state, and lets you rest for a while. Then twenty minutes later it gently wakes you up and you feel super refreshed. I tried this app and hey it worked...

Write. Edit. Write. Edit. Edit. Edit. Write. Does this crazy self-editing sound familiar? If it doesn't then you're probably from Mars, because most of us without exception go through a self-edit phase when writing. And it's not only when writing that we self-edit We...

You would think so, right? So let's make Tiger Woods, Exhibit A. Let's sit down with a coffee and 20 minutes and listen to Geoff Colvin talk about why Tiger is not a natural talent (as you thought after all). And that in fact, talent is just a "reduction of mistakes"....

I could drone on about I.Q. Or you could do a bit of your own weekend reading on I.Q. (Note: Your parents, friends, teachers, colleagues won't agree with you about this topic you're about to read). http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/opinion/07kristof.html?_r=1 And the...

How amazing is your brain? What if someone took away your eyes? Could you possibly see with your brain? Ha, ha, ha...judge for yourself. This video below is not a trick. He's actually seeing with his brain—the eyes you and I have are just tools. It's the brain that...

Ok, so I've ranted about this, but I think Mo Willems has a fantastic angle. Here's a brief take on Mo's angle: Willems is obsessed with why adults don't draw — and he wants to do something about it. "One of the interesting things about cartooning and doodling and...

Did you know that your brain operates in two different modes when it's going through a learning experience? A brain in learning mode is completely different from a brain in application mode. So how is it different? In the learning phase, the brain is able to take in a...

Ok, so it's a big question. Because there are loads of elements that make a person a super-genius. But there's one thing that is guaranteed to stop you from becoming brilliant. That one thing is the inability to take feedback. Feedback as in brutal feedback Feedback...

Do you know the story of the Rosetta Stone? You do, don't you? You  know how archaeologists couldn't make head or tail of hieroglyphics. And it's not like they didn't try. They just weren't able to figure out what those nice little pictures on the Egyptian monuments...

Just 5 minutes drive from where we live. The splendour of Rangitoto - a now dormant volcano. Most people don't take breaks. They see it as counter-productive. They're wrong. Breaks, when planned, are what makes your work productive. And we plan our breaks every year,...

You may not follow baseball. I don't. But there's a really good baseball player called Alex Rodriguez (often called A-Rod). He was always headed to be a good player. But he did something different than most of us. He decided to be great. So how do you get to...

Yes it should be. Because we learn best when we're relaxed. But most learning isn't fun at all. If I told you that you have to learn how to learn the new version of a program, would it be fun? If I told you that you have to learn the chords to a new song would it be...