Book Summaries: Around the World in 120 Days, Week Three, Day Two This is the third week, day two of the book summaries for Around the World in 120 Days for The Invisible Mentor’s Virtual Literary World Tour. Yesterday, we stopped our Tour in Laos for The Coroner’s Lunch. Today we are back in the United Kingdom - England, Scotland and Northern Ireland – to look at Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake and The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. On Day Two of Week Three of Around the World in 120 Days for the Virtual … [Read more...]
Book Summaries: Around the World in 120 Days, Week Three, Day One
June 6, 2013 by 1 Comment
Book Summaries: Around the World in 120 Days, Week Three, Day One This is the third week, day one of the book summaries for Around the World in 120 Days for The Invisible Mentor’s Virtual Literary World Tour. Last week we stopped our Tour in Toronto, Canada after we visited Kingston, Jamaica. This week we will tour the United Kingdom - England, Scotland and Northern Ireland - but we’ll take a side trip to Laos for The Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotterill because the story is set in Laos. Cotterill was born in London, but lives in Thailand. I really enjoyed the book because it gives us great insights into what life is like in Laos (Lao … [Read more...]
Using Fun to Change Behavior
June 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Using Fun to Change Behavior I participated in a Gamification course (please see my review of For the Win by Kevin Werbach, the course leader) created by Wharton School of Business and delivered on Coursera, an MOOC (massive online open course). During the course, we were shown case studies of companies that are using fun to change behavior. If you are working in industries such as the environment, health and fitness, and food, and want people to change their behaviours and lifestyles, how might you use fun? How might you use fun to assist in process changes and systems implementation? Here are examples of using fun to change … [Read more...]
How to Remember What You Read
June 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
How to Remember What You Read We have touched on bits and pieces of this topic before, but how to remember what you read is meant to be Part II to yesterday’s post How to Improve Learning. In “How to Improve Learning,” I talked about the curve of forgetting which I recently learned about, and to get things straight in my mind, about how to remember what I read, I am writing this post for me. In clarifying things in my mind, on how to use this new information, I am hoping that you will also learn how to remember what you read. We learned that we forget over 66 percent of what we learn during the first hour. If this is indeed the … [Read more...]
How to Improve Learning
June 3, 2013 by 1 Comment
“Two thirds of what we learn vanishes from our brains within an hour,” according to research by German philosopher Hermann Ebbinghaus, reports Newsweek International in an article titled “Truly Total Recall.” In 2011, organizations in the United States spent $156.2 billion on employee learning and development. If we are to believe the results of Ebbinghaus' research, most of that investment was wasted because shortly after the training, employers forgot what they learned – they did not apply what they learned - therefore it’s important to know how to improve your memory, which leads to how to improve learning. In a recent … [Read more...]
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