Good Reads

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Blink is about the first two seconds of looking–the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell proposes that successful snap judgments and mind reading is based on the ability to think small and focus on the meaning of “thin slices” of behavior, and to rely on our “adaptive unconscious.”
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Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath

Mark Twain once observed, “ A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas—businessmen, educators, politicians, journalists, and others—struggle to make their ideas “stick.”

Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas?
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The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

“The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life, is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.” A book about change; presenting a new way of understanding why change so often happens as quickly and as unexpectedly as it does.
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Children Donʻt Do Things Half Way; A Talk with Judith Rich Harris

I’m prone to making statements like this one: How the parents rear the child has no long-term effects on the child’s personality, intelligence, or mental health. I guess you could call that an extreme statement. But I prefer to think of myself as a defender of the null hypothesis.
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The Magical Number Seven by George A. Miller

There seems to be some limitation built into us either by learning or by the design of our nervous systems, a limit that keeps our channel capacities in this general range”. As human beings, in other words, we can only handle so much information at once.
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A Nation of Wimps by Hara Estroff Marano

It is time for parents to wake up to the fact that overmonitoring their kids and pushing them to be perfect will weaken their children in the long term…. Parents and schools are no longer geared toward child development, they are geared toward academic achievement.
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Letʻs Not Crowd Me, Iʻm Only A Scientist by Yisroel Brumer

When I was a research scientist, people thought my job was boring. Now Iʻm the talk of the town.
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The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness by Ned Hallowell

Happiness is the feeling that your life is going well.
In his book, The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness, Hallowellʻs research points to five basic steps that lead to happiness. For the educator, the message of the book encourages us to teach our students passion, enthusiasm, discipline, the circumstances that create laughter and play, and a sense that they don’t ever have to give up.
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Tool for Thought by Steven Johnson

Does the use of the computer and its tools affect the kinds of books and essays people write?
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