Category: educational insights

For Boosting Self-Control, the Research Is Clear: Nothing Beats Religious Belief

God. Spirit. Divine. Could it be that these three words (and others like them) have a singular strength for bolstering our powers of self-control? Even among nonbelievers? And with demonstrated effects as great as a 91 percent boost? If it sounds too good to be true, guess again. These are the findings from a series…


When Taking Notes, the Hand Still Reigns Supreme

Evernote. OneNote. Notability. Agenda. Ulysses. Supernote. Mobiscribe. Day One. Moleskine Journey. Oodles of note-taking apps now populate the Mac and Windows ecospheres, while an ever-swelling array of tablets, laptops, and e-ink notepads have sprung up on which to use them. The lot seems to grow only more feature-rich—and attractive—by the day. (I’ve taken more than…


A Better Way to Discipline Kids? The Results Suggest ‘Yes’ (Part 1 of 2)

Pretty much everything under the sun has been tried. In the olden days, corporal punishment seems to have been the approach de rigueur. “Full of blows” was how celebrated Roman poet Horace described his teacher. “Racks, claws, and various instruments of torture” were the tools of discipline used to straighten out a young and rebellious,…