Michele Pasin / Quotes

Teaching what you read deepens understanding

I guarantee that if you approach the material in each of the following chapters in this way, you will not only better remember what you read, but your perspective will be expanded, your understanding deepened, and your motivation to apply the material increased.

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#learning #understanding #motivation

Growth mindset: praise the effort

What should Ethan’s parents have done? Research reveals a simple solution. Rather than praising him for being smart, they should have praised him for working…

Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) #motivation #learning #mistakes #parents

Praising a child for being smart backfires

How can you get that kind of effort from your child? Surprisingly, it’s how you praise him. What you praise defines what your child perceives success to be…

Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) #motivation #learning #parents #education

Logic alone doesn't motivate good conduct

In his first book, An Inquiry Into the Good, for example, arguing that logical reasons are often not sufficient to motivate good conduct, he alludes to a…

Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy) #motivation #sympathy #conduct

Removing the illusion of oneself as a separate ego does not mean being “unselfish”

But this must not be confused with our usual ideas of the practice of “unselfishness,” which is the effort to identify with others and their needs while still…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #ego #unselfishness #illusion #things #motivation

An organism is what it does

To sum up: just as no thing or organism exists on its own, it does not act on its own. Furthermore, every organism is a process: thus the organism is not…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #organisms #process #understanding #patterns

Argument (philosophy)

This has two aspects: the evaluation of arguments, and the construction or advancing of arguments. Some of the skills involved in this are: understanding of…

Taking Philosophical Dialogue Online #role #evaluation #skills #understanding #aspects