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• Messes, Not Mistakes

  
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  Cheerful Monk . Creative Commons license   This daily fortune appeared on my computer years ago, and I still laugh when I think of it. Now I’ve mostly given up on the idea of making mistakes. Instead I’m making messes — on paper, using watercolors, oil pastels, colored pens and pencils, etc. I’m going ...
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• Special Promotion: Buy 2 Books & Access Self-paced Brain Fitness Course

  
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  Let us share a special promotion you may be interested in: you can now gain complimentary 6-month access to the self-paced course How to Be Your Own Brain Fitness Coach when you order two copies of the new book The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: How to Optimize Brain Health and Performance at Any Age  (284 ...
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• What To Do When Your Teachers Don’t Agree

  
  Dance Advantage — Authority: 118
  It can be a complicated scenario when one teacher tells you to do something one way and another teacher disagrees and wants you to do it completely differently. Which one is right?  Who do you listen to? This article will give you some pointers on what do to in this situation, and explain why this happens in the ...
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• New book on How to Optimize Brain Health and Performance at Any Age

  
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  We are pleased to announce that, after much hard work and three global summits to discuss the latest science and best practices,  The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: How to Optimize Brain Health and Performance at Any Age  (April 2013; 284 pages), is now available for purchase as paperback ($15.95) and e-book ...
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• Announcing The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: How to Optimize Brain Health and Performance at Any Age

  
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  Writ­ing a fore­word to this book against a tight dead­line is a some­what chal­leng­ing task. As you will learn later in the book though, there is rea­son to believe that such men­tally stim­u­lat­ing, novel activ­i­ties are ben­e­fi­cial for keep­ing my brain sharp as I gain in wis­dom — and in ...
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• Calisthenics and Brain Games for a Child’s Mind

  
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  Brain Games Aim to Make Kids Smarter  (SciAm Mind, requires subscription): “Scientists have concocted mental fitness regimens to strengthen weak thinking skills in students—in effect, making kids smarter…Psychologists have long believed that thinking capacities such as attention, memory and reasoning were ...
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• Bees, You and Me...Earth Week 2013

  
  a little red hen — Authority: 110
    Bill McKibben narrates a short, mellow video, "Dance of the Honey Bees."   Planning an evening program for my retirement community about whats happening with bees, my search for resources turned this up on a Bill Moyers show.  Sadly it ends with the dark side about honey bee demise.  The link is from TruthOut, ...
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• What is digital learning, e-learning, online learning? Short answer, learning!

  
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  Laysha Ward , president of Community Relations for Target, published a fantastic post this week on the parallels between the different modes for learning. In her post Ward writes, …we may be witnessing the death of “digital” — at least as an adjective. We don’t go “digital” shopping — we shop, ...
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• Fighting Nature

  
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  In A Year in Provence Peter Mayle explained why he never has a garden: It would be fighting nature, and nature always wins. It has more stamina and it never stops for lunch. —Peter Mayle, Andy, on the other hand doesn’t mind doing battle with nature, even if he often loses. In Our Garden in the Woods I ...
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• Upgrading education and health with the brain in mind

  
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  Heads up: these are some of my upcoming talks, starting tomorrow with a brief insight blast on  Upgrading education and health with the brain in mind  at the World Economic Forum on Latin America. If you’re a SharpBrains friend and speaking at/ attending any, please let me know so we can connect. April 23–25, ...
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• Personal Learning Environments – The book

  
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  My dear friends Linda Castañeda and Jordi Adell have just published a new book on Personal Learning Environments: Key aspects of an online educational ecosystem (my translation for Entornos personales de aprendizaje: claves para el ecosistema educativo en red ) The book is innovative in different ways: ...
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• The Life-Long Learning Podcast – Episode 2 – The Truth About Positive Thinking

  
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  I invited my friend Charles Rare from London onto the show to discuss the importance of positive thinking, what positive thinking is and the common misconceptions. We both believe that positieve thinking – when done correctly – is a requisite for achieving all goals and ambitions. This is definitely and ...
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• Learning … Grateful, Privileged, Blessed!

  
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  Two weeks … 1 air conditioned room … five readings … 10 students … 1 professor = Priceless learning! Stronger resolve to continue … to become better … to have an open mind … to look inside … to work … Continue reading →
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• You Snooze, You Lose

  
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  Cheerfulmonk . Creative Commons license .   Actually it isn’t quite as bad as the cartoon implies. Tax ID fraud is going up — there were about 1.8 million tax-related ID thefts during 2012 , but after a big hassle the victims are reimbursed. Typically they get their refund in about six months, but some are ...
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• New Titles for MOSE Lifelong Learning

  
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  Annotations from Baker & Taylor or Ingram             The Backyard Sheep: An Introductory Guide to Keeping Productive Pet Sheep Weaver, Sue With Sue Weaver’s expert guidance, it’s easy to raise sheep in your own backyard, whether for fleece and milk (and the wonderful cheese, yogurt, ...
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• Books are just the beginning

  
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  Books are just the beginning.  They are one of many tools that your library offers in service to its larger mission: providing access to information and opportunities for education. The library is your classroom waiting to happen. Public libraries, in particular, are committed to advancing knowledge through lifelong ...
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• The Life-Long Learning Podcast – Episode 1 – Introduction

  
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  I’m happy to present the first episode of the life-long learning podcast. A new podcast by me where I talk about everything related to personal growth through constantly exploring and learning. In this episode I discuss what the podcast will be about, who it’s for and I also tell you about my background and why I ...
  5 weeks ago

• "American Winter" Kickstarted to theater near you...

  
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  Were you with us when HBO announced the new film "American Winter" ?  At the website theres more about its producers, Joe and Harry Gantz, and their focus on social justice films. Maybe living in Portland, Oregon, where it was filmed gave it a certain immediacy for us.  Also that it was about real middle class ...
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