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Sports, Complexity, and the Ten-Thousand-Hour Rule

Posted Friday, 13 September 2013

Forty years ago, in a paper in American Scientist , Herbert Simon and William Chase drew one of the most famous conclusions in the study of expertise: There are no instant experts in chess—certainly no instant masters or grandmasters. There appears not to be on record any case (including Bobby...

The Rare Find: Spotting Exceptional Talent before Anyone Else by George Anders

Posted Friday, 13 September 2013

This is a book about identifying talent and predicting high performance. It takes examples from a number of activities: from sport, the military and business. One of its central premises is that this is a difficult task, in which failure is the norm. Anders also suggests that adopting conventional methods...

The Importance of Play

Posted Friday, 13 September 2013

http://vimeo.com/47111398 Guided by six learning principles and three core values, connected learning is the outcome of a six-year research effort supported by the MacArthur Foundation into how learning, education, and schooling could be reimagined for a networked world. The film asks: ‘Might we have underestimated the value of ‘play’?’ ‘How...

The Age of Obesity

Posted Friday, 13 September 2013

Years ago, after a plane trip spent reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground and Weight Watchers magazine, Woody Allen melded the two experiences into a single essay. ‘I am fat,’ it began. ‘I am disgustingly fat. I am the fattest human I know. I have nothing but excess poundage...