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Digital Propaganda
"When people talk about fake news, a lot of folks are like 'people will figure it out.' The truth is, they don't always figure it out." -...
hbsingh
Nov 10, 20236 min read
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Propaganda 101
“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.” Robert Heinlein, Revolt in...
hbsingh
Nov 3, 20236 min read
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Learning is testing
“Don’t confuse recognising information with being able to recall it.” - Adam Robinson This is the final installment of the learning...
hbsingh
Oct 27, 20237 min read
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Beware of clever fools
“Cleverness is not wisdom.” - Euripides This short blog (#80!!) is an important one if you are keen to weed out pretenders and avoid...
hbsingh
Oct 12, 20234 min read
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Revision tips 1: Learning is training
“Learn from the mistakes of others … You can't live long enough to make them all yourself!” - Oliver Wendell Holmes Over the last 8 weeks...
hbsingh
Oct 6, 20238 min read
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Neurodiversity - different ways of learning
“You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.” - Marvin Minsky Much of what I have written about is targeted at...
hbsingh
Sep 29, 20234 min read
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What do we really mean by learning?
“If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.”- Howard Gardner Over the last couple of weeks, we have gone...
hbsingh
Sep 22, 20234 min read
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How to remember long term?
“Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.” - Bob Dylan I hope you love this one! I have enjoyed researching it. So far...
hbsingh
Sep 15, 20236 min read
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Making things memorable
“Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.” - Thomas Fuller So far in the series we...
hbsingh
Sep 8, 20235 min read
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How to learn intensely
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically” - Martin Luther King, Jr. In this series, we are...
hbsingh
Sep 1, 20235 min read
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Creating curiosity
“Genuine learning is impossible without curiosity.” – Naval Ravikant For Blog 73, we are tackling a thorny issue around learning....
hbsingh
Aug 24, 20234 min read
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The 5 steps of learning
'I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand ' - Confucius Your brain works like Google - a cue can access memories...
hbsingh
Aug 18, 20235 min read
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Why do we learn?
“A man who asks, is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life.” - Chinese Proverb I find learning a fascinating...
hbsingh
Aug 11, 20235 min read
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Test your EQ!
“In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels” ― Daniel Goleman Welcome to Blog 70! It is all about EQ and...
hbsingh
Aug 4, 20232 min read
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3 beach books and half time commentary
"In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at halftime." - Andy Andrews As I sign off for the first half of the year...
hbsingh
Jul 13, 20233 min read
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Analysis Paralysis - how to understand and overcome it
"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action." - Walter Anderson I’m delighted to write this blog for a long time reader on analysis...
hbsingh
Jul 7, 20234 min read
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Procrastination is fear
“There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act”- Harry S. Truman I have the...
hbsingh
Jun 30, 20235 min read
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6 unexpected decision-making books
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” - Walt Disney Wisdom per page (WPP) is a pretty good...
hbsingh
Jun 23, 20234 min read
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Calming breathing
"To breathe properly is to live properly" - Robin Sharma This short final installment is how decision-makers can access calm through...
hbsingh
Jun 9, 20234 min read
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Meditation - a beginners' guide
“You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes every day — unless you’re too busy. Then you should sit for an hour.” - Zen proverb...
hbsingh
Jun 1, 20234 min read
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Meditation for decision-makers
“Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.”– Ajahn Brahm I would guess that we think...
hbsingh
May 25, 20234 min read
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EQ - what you need to know
'It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.' - Epictetus In today’s blog, I am going to whizz through the key...
hbsingh
May 19, 20232 min read
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6 habits of high EQ leaders
"My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which...
hbsingh
May 11, 20234 min read
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EQ and 8 problem-solving benefits
'There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.' – Eric Jensen Let's slay the elephant in...
hbsingh
May 5, 20232 min read
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