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Education can be enriching and transformative. It can also be downright excruciating—even demoralizing. When it comes to learning, why are some of us lovers and some of us haters? Welcome to the world of educational psychology, which uses science to explore what causes people to engage and learn, and what we can do to make learning opportunities more enjoyable and impactful. Spoiler alert: Teachers can only do so much. Students, too, must take control of their learning. Unfortunately, many of us never, ahem, learned the skills to do just that.

No Calculator? No Problem! Mastering Mental Math , award-winning professor of mathematics and celebrated “mathemagician” Arthur T. Benjamin delivers 10 fun-filled lessons on how to do math in your head with confidence, accuracy, and speed - sometimes faster than a calculator. By the end of Professor Benjamin’s lessons, you’ll be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers faster than ever before. And with your newfound skills, you’ll soon find yourself amazing other people and, perhaps more important, yourself.

It’s not just you. Stress levels are at an all-time high—so much so that a recently convened panel of medical experts in the US has recommended that all adults under the age of 65 be screened for anxiety. In How to Release Anxiety, Gabby Bernstein offers simple, actionable steps for feeling better, living with more ease, and showing up for those around us. Gabby’s unusual advice: Rather than manage your anxiety, what if you befriended it? Gabby posits that what we befriend, we can ultimately be at ease with. So she invites us to get curious.

How can we change our behaviours? The first step is understanding our habits. For better or worse, habits are the invisible building blocks of daily life. Research suggests that about 40% of what we do is repeated almost daily and yet most of the time we aren't really aware of what's happening.

Do you have a dream sitting on a shelf that you're ready to bring to life? Or maybe you've begun your journey of change but feel stuck, stalled, and uncertain about what to do next. The time has come for you to create your own path—not follow the one presented to you—and you could use a powerful dose of guidance to get you there. This is exactly where you need to be. In Pivot and Pursue It, reinvention expert Coach Pamela Mitchell delivers 90 minutes of concrete advice on how to envision your next destination and then get there.

We all fail. We all fall. We all need to know how to get back up. Few know this better than New York Times best-selling author Neil Pasricha. Before selling over a million copies of his Book of Awesome series and touring the world to teach Fortune 500 CEOs, Ivy league deans, and members of the royal family how to unlock a positive mind-set, Pasricha’s life hit rock bottom. In this Audible Original, you'll hear for the first time Neil's very personal story of failure and resilience - and you'll learn how you, too, can find the strength to get back up.

The slap you in your face, stop you in your tracks, colour run from your face moment that changed everything.

Tavi Gevinson founded the online magazine Rookie in 2011 when she was fifteen years old. She wanted to create a space for teens that was free of messaging telling them who they should be and instead celebrated them for who they were. Rookie attracted a thriving community until it folded in 2018. Its now-grown readers still seek out its archive and book series today.

É possível dizer que parte do que se entende por felicidade está também atrelada à ideia de liberdade. Ser feliz acaba, em certa medida, dizendo respeito à possibilidade de realizarmos nossos potenciais e desejos - ser e conquistar aquilo que se pretende. No entanto, mesmo desejos e aspirações mais imateriais parecem estar atreladas à materialidade e às limitações do mundo: podemos ser e conquistar aquilo que nosso contexto permite.

Work is often treated as an activity that enables happiness on holidays or weekends. But most of us spend a large portion of our lives working - to live a happy life we need to be happy at work, not just outside of it. Changing your habits to prioritise happiness at work is the key. Dr Tim Sharp introduces you to 10 simple habits you can adopt in your own work life.

Pode se dizer que o berço da civilização ocidental esteve dividido na fronteira entre o Mediterrâneo e o Oriente Médio. De um lado, a mitologia e a filosofia gregas; de outro, as ditas culturas abraâmicas (judaísmo, cristianismo e islamismo). Quais as influências que estas tradições exercem ainda hoje não apenas sobre nosso imaginário, mas sobre nossas maneiras de criar, reconhecer e entender o mundo? De que formas fé e razão interagem, se contradizem (ou se reafirmam) em nossa tradição? Como seus símbolos, conceitos e pressupostos nos ensinaram a pensar - e que pontos cegos eles podem criar?

In The History and Future of HBCUs, Professor Crystal R. Sanders and Professor Reginald Ellis take you back to the pre-Civil War origins of some of the earliest HBCUs and walk you through the complex history of these institutions. As you witness their growth - and the power struggles that often came with the fraught political and racial landscape of the US in the 19th and 20th centuries - you will meet some of the great minds they produced. Uncover the indelible mark they have left on American education, the fight for Black liberation, and the Civil Rights movement.

Ever get the feeling that not everything is cool with school? Best-selling author Neal Pollack is dissatisfied with what his teenage son, Elijah, is learning in his studies. Neal wants to fill in the gaps, while Elijah just wants him to chill out a little. Together, they embark on the father-son field trip of a lifetime, which includes stops in New York's poetry-slam scene, a medical-marijuana dispensary, and a convention to discuss evolution with 1,700 biologists.

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In their continuing father-son field trip to end all field trips, writer (and one-time Jeopardy! champ) Neal Pollack and his teenage son set out to explore the many topics not covered in his high school curriculum. Among them: what really constitutes a healthy lunch, why dress codes exist, and how the largely phased-out "home ec" class can be beneficial.

The world is a complex place. A complex place where answers are sometimes hard to find. But in this podcast the economy professor Micael Dahlen asks the seemingly simple questions that lead you on a winding journey into the core of what it means to be a human being.

É inegável que nosso intelecto, nossa mente científica, tem proporcionado grandes conquistas. Ao mesmo tempo, porém, é alarmante o crescente número de diagnósticos dos vários transtornos mentais—ansiedade, depressão, etc.—entre outros males que não só atingem o indivíduo, mas também a coletividade. Teria nosso lema moderno, "querer é poder", perdido sua eficácia?

Este curso traz uma compilação de reflexões e ferramentas relacionadas ao tema da tomada de decisão, extraídas de diversas áreas do conhecimento. Da lógica à psicologia, da filosofia à teoria dos jogos, da economia à ciência da computação: como expoentes de campos tão diversos pensaram este grande dilema humano que é a necessidade de decidir, e que lições oferecem para nos ajudar nas escolhas do dia a dia.

O que define nossa concepção atual a respeito de um funcionamento mental desejável e socialmente aceitável? A que chamamos de "normal" (e será "normal" uma existência sem nenhuma "loucura")? O que é um "transtorno mental" (mental disorder)? O curso faz um diálogo entre psiquiatria, psicanálise e história da cultura para traçar um histórico dessa relação entre "loucura" e "normalidade", por vezes difusa e contraditória. Entre a idealização romântica e um certo higienismo médico...

Vivemos tempos de excessos. Excesso de informação, de mensagens, de canais de comunicação. Ao mesmo tempo que parece que nos comunicamos muito, não temos tempo para escutar, ler atentamente, perguntar. E isso tem um grande impacto para as relações no trabalho, desde o exercício da liderança até mesmo uma cultura de inovação e colaboração.

Historicamente e no senso comum, a mente e o corpo são vistos como entidades distintas, fazendo parecer que a vida mental e a vida do corpo possuem diferentes dinâmicas de funcionamento. Essa visão traz grandes consequências para como enxergamos o ser humano. Acredita-se, por exemplo, que preencher palavras cruzadas previne Alzheimer, ou que depressão é um problema estritamente psicológico.