Anna has been pushing me out of my comfort zone since we met for 10 years now. She claimed it would help my personal growth. There are actual articles backing up this idea. Let us try to think about it. Our comfort zone typically includes things we feel comfortable doing: things we do automatically, things …
Team building – rebels needed
When we started our mastermind project, accountability group was one of our key offerings. How did we build our groups? Based on common time zone, interests etc. And we failed: the groups did not become magnets of learning and motivation generators. True team-building is a complex task, which we cannot handle from our mail accounts. …
Is there such as thing as too many ideas?
There is such a thing as having too many ideas. In the world of business and entrepreneurship there is an analysis procedure just for this sort of things. You could analyze risks and benefits, business environment, your ability to execute each idea and choose to focus on the best overall prospect. When you treat yourself …
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Learning by trial and error
Learning by trial and error is considered to be the slowest and most effort-intensive way to learn. When we try to handle hard tasks, it is often the most obvious way to learn. So if we can learn from our own experience effectively, we can handle increasingly more complex stuff. Naive approach Most people learn …
Using social media and asking well-formulated questions
Social media is much more than a gossip group. For a young professional social media provides these possibilities and many more: Showing your CV to thousands of friends with endorsements of your other friends. I am not only talking about Linkedin. You can share your thoughts and achievements on Facebook and Twitter, you can use …
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Superlearning business: tips for beginners
Many superlearners work in business: entrepreneurs, managers, analysts, lawyers, accountants, economists…. With business, financial and legal analysis it is easy to generate a quick return on investment for all the reading and memorization training. However, these areas require more attention to details and some dedicated tools. Business subjects appear to be complex since they can …
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Danger in the Workplace – The Damaging Effect of Stress
A couple of weeks ago someone loved our article on time taking article. After a short discussion we decided to take it one step forward. We invited this article, since some of our students overwork and suffer from stress. The writers are brand-new non-profit organization improvedu and their support group. We do not usually do …
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Handling to do lists
To do lists are a major part of the daily routine for any productive professional nowadays. We have many different “to do lists” in addition to the classical “to do” list: action items from meetings, appointments in calendar, errand lists, bucket lists, checklists, lists of ideas, lists of things we have done… It seems that …
Quick tips for object oriented programming
Most of our students who are programmers use Java. This lecture is for them, and not only for them. Many students ask how to use our methods for programming. Actually we took many of the programming methodology and used it in wider context – so using it in original context will be easy. Let us …
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Daily habits will make you smarter
This small infographic shows several daily activities that will make you smarter. Here you can find more smart activities. We will consider our own version of such activities. You can do them at home, at work, while communicating. There is simply no reason to procrastinate, so you can start right away. Write down a list …