Monday, February 13, 2012

Expressing our Thoughts

Nancy Duarte has come up with a theory about how to communicate adequately. She analyzed some of the greatest speeches in history; and then, she outlined the components of ezch one. Finally, she created the perfect formula. Listen to her lecture. Nancy Duarte: The secret structure of great talks

A Lecture Worth Listening

This lecture "Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work" as all TED's lecture is worth listening. I even bought the ebook, and now I am listening to it. Positive Psychology is the new approach in Psychology. Learning to be happy, learning to cope with our losses before we suffer them is the key to our current problems. Watch this lecture and tell me what you think. http://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work.html

Friday, February 10, 2012

The capacity to know oneself and to know others is an inalienable part of the human condition as is the capacity to know objects or sounds, and it deserves to be investigated no less than these other "less charged" forms. Howard Gardner (1983, p. 243) Frames of Mind