Ever find yourself totally absorbed in an activity?  It could be playing a sport, writing a poem, playing a piece of music, painting a picture, watching a caterpillar, doing a math problem, or some other challenging project.  If so, then you have had an experience of ”flow.” This concept, developed by the Hungarian-American psychologist Dr....Read More

Want to learn a new language like French, Spanish, or Italian?  It’s not all about memorization.  There are things we can do to optimize our learning ability.  Dr. Howard Gardner says that there are at least eight different intelligences that make up the human mind.  We can use strategies from each of these intelligences to...Read More

Typically, when we think of learning, we think of textbooks, lectures, worksheets, classrooms, and the like.  However, any real definition of learning should be much broader than that.  Using Dr. Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, we see that it is possible to learn through all eight of his intelligences.  For example, if we wanted...Read More

Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences explains that each of us possesses at least eight or nine intelligences.  How do these intelligences come into being in the first place?  The question of where ”intelligence” as a singular phenomenon comes from has been hotly debated by psychometricians and other experts for decades.  Generally speaking, the debate...Read More

Most people know how important it is to diversify your financial assets in your investment portfolio (if you’re lucky enough to have one).  Too much money invested in the stock market may pack a wallop to your portfolio if the stock market crashes.  The same thing goes with mental assets, and more particularly, the asset...Read More