For 40 hours a week competition is awfully stiff but after that there's very little competition.
We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.
If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a cubicle. And if you wanted to change things, you might have to tear down both and start over.
The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later.
You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.
Every brain is wired differently from every other brain, and learns in ways unique to that wiring.
What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!
Gaddafi's a great bloke. The media only show the bad things. I used to go round his house. His son's a super simple guy. All the Gaddafis were very down to earth.
Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.
I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.