Malcolm Gladwell's response - 10,000 hours, Deliberate Practice, and The Sports Gene 22 Aug 2013 | 04:20 pm

Malcolm Gladwell, who has lately been criticized about his book Outliers, in which he wrote about the 10,000 hours rule, has written as response in which he defends his position. In his piece, Complex...

The Integrative Process 14 Aug 2013 | 04:12 pm

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We should become less neuron-centric 12 Aug 2013 | 04:08 pm

Mo Costandi, author of 50 Human Brain Ideas You Really Need to Know, has written an interesting new article: A new way of thinking about how the brain works. In this article he says that a dominant wa...

Fredrickson & Losada's Positivity Ratio built on quicksand 11 Aug 2013 | 11:26 pm

The well-known research by Barbara Fredrickson and Marcial Losada on the positivity ratio is now being seriously criticized. Their 2005 paper Positive Affect and the Complex Dynamics of Human Flourish...

Everyone knows 8 Aug 2013 | 01:42 pm

Dealing with the paradox of confident ignorance 27 Jun 2013 | 06:46 pm

Charles Darwin once said: "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." This sounds like a strange idea. Is it true that confidence sometimes signals ignorance? Is it true that pe...

Self-handicapping 23 Jun 2013 | 09:30 pm

Readers of this blog will probably know that believing that human abilities and traits cannot be developed (this type of belief is called a fixed mindset) has several disadvantages. One of those disad...

Mastering the art of solution-focused counseling by Jeffrey Guterman 13 Jun 2013 | 11:08 pm

Today I received a copy of the second edition of Mastering the art of solution-focused counseling by Jeffrey Guterman in my mail. Jeffrey is a counselor who was originally trained by Albert Ellis, the...

"I'd like to be able to say to myself, and believe it, that I lived a good life" 18 May 2013 | 07:47 pm

"What am I living for? What is the purpose of living on? What do I want to do with the time I have left? That kind of stuff. I'd like to be able to... I don't know whether I'll have the opportunity or...

Intelligence is not one-dimensional - forget about IQ 8 May 2013 | 11:39 am

Fractionating Human Intelligence By Adam Hampshire, Roger Highfield, Beth Parkin, & Adrian Owen Abstract: What makes one person more intellectually able than another? Can the entire distribution of h...