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“As a boy growing up in Brantford, Ont., I knew that anyone could make it in Canada just by believing in themselves. I tied up my skates every day and practised relentlessly.” Wayne Gretzky WAYNE GRETZKY Contributed to The Globe and Mail Published Thursday, Mar. 10, 2016 6:00AM EST Last updated Thursday, Mar. 10, 2016 […]

Become An Intellectual Middleman The most creative people combine old ideas in new ways. Here’s how to get better at mixing things up. In Charles Duhigg’s new book on productivity, Smarter Faster Better, he devotes a chapter to how innovation happens. The answer? Generally not as lightning out of the blue. One analysis of scientific […]

By NPR STAFF • APR 5, 2016 DANIEL FISHEL FOR NPR  Originally published on April 5, 2016 10:34 am Before she was a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, Angela Duckworth was a middle school math teacher. As a rookie teacher, she was surprised when she calculated grades. Some of her sharpest students weren’t doing […]

by Shaun Mahon published in  Career Talk on March 17, 2016 “What these two lack in physical stature, they more than make up for with heart and sheer willingness to fight for each other and the team.” That was my first media mention as a full senior rugby player but it didn’t make me worry about my […]

The media loves to tell us what to believe, what to think, what to feel and what to desire. School measures our success not by our ability to think for ourselves, innovate and bring forth new ideas, but by our ability to memorize and regurgitate the same old information on paper. We are trained not […]

FEBRUARY 11, 2016 BY MARIA KONNIKOVA Perception is key to resilience: Do you conceptualize an event as traumatic, or as a chance to learn and grow? CREDIT ILLUSTRATION BY GIZEM VURAL Norman Garmezy, a developmental psychologist and clinician at the University of Minnesota, met thousands of children in his four decades of research. But one boy […]

by Olivia Rotenberg published in Career Talkon February 10, 2016 Philosophers argue that beauty is essential to life itself, a value so dear to humans that it can overcome evils. But what if I told you that by going about your daily routines, you’re greatly diminishing your chance to harness the power of beauty? What […]