“The executive who tells me he can’t remember names is at the same time telling me he can’t remember a significant part of his business and is operating on quicksand. . . . most people don’t remember names, for the simple reason that they don’t take time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.”
As I watch Poodle and Tanya talk, waiting for MYP to get back from setting Rock up with a movie, I hear a huge fit of giggles burst from my left.
Looking over, I see Seashell giggling uncontrollably. I ask, “What’s so funny?”
“I — oranges are — i only just realized — orange –” she manages to say, unable to stop laughing enough to communicate for more than a few words.
MYP has returned from seting Rock and Bear up in front of a moving picture, and asks, “What’s so funny?”
Seashell is laughing too hard to even try and explain again, so I jump in. “As far as I can tell, she only just now realized that oranges are orange.”
MYP gasps with surprised laughter. Tanya and Jack have looked up from their positions on the floor, and upon realizing the situation are also chuckling.
Seashell has finally recovered from uncontrollable giggles, and marvels, “This is like a major breakthrough. I was thinking about colors, and I was trying to think what was orange, and at first I was like, ‘melons are orange, but not really. They’re more pinkish.’ And then I realized like oranges are orange!”
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One day when I was little, and my parents were having a party, I went around to all the adults and said, “Drink this, it’ll make you taller, it’s magic.” And they all drank it and said, how cute, how wierd. And then I snuck off into the room where they kept all the coats and hemmed everyone’s sleeves an inch shorter.
Steven Wright
adherence
hairdryer
Nicaragua
undeceive
(x^2+y^2-1)^3 = x^2 y^3 is known as the First Heart Curve.
You can see what it looks like here.
[via Wolfram Alpha Blog]
For a few decades, it’s been noted that a large percentage of all gifted students (those who score in the top 10 percent on aptitude tests) severely underestimate their own abilities.
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They underrate the importance of effort, and they overrate how much help they need from a parent.
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When parents praise their children’s intelligence, they believe they are providing the solution to this problem.
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I am smart, the kids’ reasoning goes; I don’t need to put out effort. Expending effort becomes stigmatized—it’s public proof that you can’t cut it on your natural gifts.
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By the age of 12, children believe that earning praise from a teacher is not a sign you did well—it’s actually a sign you lack ability and the teacher thinks you need extra encouragement. And teens, Meyer found, discounted praise to such an extent that they believed it’s a teacher’s criticism—not praise at all—that really conveys a positive belief in a student’s aptitude.
From: The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kidsvia New York Magazine
“From: madeleine <
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To:email removed for security
Subject: Insanity threatens US
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:28:06 +0200Don’t open this mail
website removed, because i’m not going to advertise for spammers
quoted from the email sent to me, by someone using my name. Apparently, insanity threatens the US, but don’t blame me.
Now, in attempts to get me to purchase something, the ‘customer service’ has decided to up my status.
I am now referred to as “Dear Mr. madeleine”
“When I was nine I asked my dad, “Can I have your movie camera? That old, wind-up 8mm camera that was in your drawer?” And he goes, “Sure, take it.” And I took it and I started making movies with it and I started being as creative as I could, and never once in my life did my parents ever say, “What you’re doing is a waste of time.” Never. And I grew up, I had teachers, I had colleagues, I had people that I worked with all through my life who always told me what you’re doing is not a waste of time. So it was normal to me that it was OK to do that. But I know there are kids out there that don’t have that support system, so if you’re out there and you’re listening, listen to me: If you want to be creative, get out there and do it. It’s not a waste of time. Do it. OK?”
Michael Giacchino (2010 Oscars winner of Best Score for Up)
[via t5m collective]
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