Tag: Learning
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Anna Mary Robertson began painting at 78 and gained worldwide fame. Kimani Maruge started elementary school at the age of 84. Nola Ochs earned her college degree at 95. Fauja Singh took up marathon running at 89. Tao Porchon Lynch became a yoga instructor at 80 and kept teaching until she was 100. Bill Tapia…
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In the late 1990s, while exploring how musical training shapes the brain, Harvard neuroscientist Alvaro Pascual-Leone found himself asking an unexpected question: Is it possible that just imagining a movement works as well as practicing it for real? ——————————————– The experiment included two groups of people who had never played the piano before. Both groups…
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Mastering a skill is often seen as something mysterious, almost magical, as if it depends on some hidden gift you’re born with that we can’t quite explain. There’s no denying the role of genetics and the environment we grow up in, but the truth is a little different. The truth isn’t a magical transformation. It’s…
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“Learning is an emotional act.” This sentence from a book I once read really made me pause and think about it. I had always thought of learning as a rational, analytical, and strategic process. After all, that’s how education was presented to me throughout my school years. But how much of the information I was…
