Category: learning
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The Wisdom of Questioning
When an individual or group blindly accepts a concept as truth without questioning, we might say they “drank the Kool-Aid“. This saying is based on an unfortunate incident in the past where a large group of people died following their troubled leader’s orders. Blind acceptance without reason is often a fool-hardy venture and sometimes even…
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Improving Working Memory and Attention
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Working memory is the brain function that allows us to hold information in memory long enough to manipulate or perform some action on it in order to solve a problem or come up with a response. It is considered an “executive function“, which is a set of cognitive abilities that allow us to plan, organize,…