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Behind the Laptop Week 11
Two Quick Book Reviews and Why I Read These Books
We're Ruining Mindfulness with How We Do It: Ronald Purser's McMindfulness - A Short Review
We have a mindfulness problem.
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Kathryn Schulz' Being Wrong - A Short Review
"To f*ck up is to find adventure."
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The Game May Teach the Game But It Could Use My Help - A Short Review of The Constraints-Led Approach
If you have heard coaches talk about motor learning then you have almost certainly heard coaches utter the phrase, “the game teaches the game”.
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"All I Know Is That I Know Nothing" - A Short Review of The Drunkard's Walk
Socrates is credited as saying that, "all I know is that I know nothing" and, after reading Leonard Mlodinow's The Drunkard's Walk, I feel like I should…
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It's a Jungle Out There - A Short Review of Statistical Analysis with R for Dummies
I have learned that my professional life as a volleyball technical coordinator means different things to different people.
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We Teach Who We Are - a Review of Parker J. Palmer's The Courage to Teach
“We teach who we are’“ - Parker J.
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Annie Duke's Thinking In Bets - A Short Review
To say that the best of this book comes at the end is to imply that the rest isn't nearly as good.
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Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel's Make It Stick - A Short Review
I started listening to the audiobook version of Make It Stick this summer and finished by reading the last couple of chapters in the physical book over…
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Charles Duhigg's Smarter Faster Better - A Short Review
I listened to a podcast interviewing Charles Duhigg two years ago and in the course of his interview he introduced the concept of disfluency.
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Alison Gopnik's The Gardener and the Carpenter - A Short Review
I recently finished reading Alison Gopnik's The Gardener and the Carpenter after hearing an interview with her on the Hidden Brain podcast.
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Josh Waitzkin's The Art of Learning - A Short Review
There are many books that have been written by sports and business figures that sit somewhere between teaching tool and autobiography and Josh…
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