14 teams were given a sealed envelope. In each envelope was five dollars of “seed funding”. The teams could spend as much time as they wanted planning, but once they opened it, they had only 2 hours to generate as much money as possible.
Fast (System 1) and Slow (System 2) thinking In this CBS video, cognitive psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman talks about when it’s best to think fast (using your instinct or intuition) and when to think slowly (using your analytic ability and reasoning). He calls the fast mode of thinking ‘System 1’ and the slow mode ‘System 2’. Working memory underpins System 2 thinking – enabling us to maintain and process short term information while thinking something through on our mental ‘scratchpad’. Kahneman is asked: When
This remarkable study by Van Der Werf and his colleagues shows that you can learn motor skills just by watching and then sleeping shortly after. But you won’t learn from watching if you don’t sleep immediately!
Expertise involves developing perception, long term memory, an organised knowledge bank, and intuition. Here we look at how High IQ Pro training speeds up expertise.
Experts perceive situations differently from novices. Here we look at how.
If something trips off the tongue, or even if it rhymes, it will instinctively be felt to be more true and we are more likely to believe it.
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