In This Interview, Ulrich Boser and I Discuss…
- The Wolf Parable
- His book, Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business or School – or – How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything
- Learning how to learn
- Getting better at getting better
- The ultimate survival tool
- Being actively engaged in the learning process
- Making meaning out of something
- The hypercorrection effect
- Giving our brain time to make sense of the information, reflection
- How critical it is to understand relationships between things
- Varying the circumstances in which we learn/apply information
- How it’s easier to remember something new if you can hang it on to something old
- A systematic approach to learning something
- Value: valuing what you’re learning
- Target: learning small pieces of info at a time
- Develop: practice & get feedback
- Extend: elaborating on something, looking at it from different angles
- Relate: analogies are the essence of thought, relating something to other things
- Rethink: take time to process information
- Metacognition: thinking about thinking
- What are you going to learn and how will you know that you know it?
- How intertwined emotion and cognition are
- Digestible parts: learn less at a time
- At 90 minutes of learning, adults are kind of done
- Active learning strategies
- Hypotheticals: what would happen if…
- Why it’s important to stay away from cramming
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A grandfather is talking with his grandson and he says there are two wolves inside of us which are always at war with each other.
One of them is a good wolf which represents things like kindness, bravery and love. The other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed, hatred and fear.
The grandson stops and thinks about it for a second then he looks up at his grandfather and says, “Grandfather, which one wins?”
The grandfather quietly replies, the one you feed
The Tale of Two Wolves is often attributed to the Cherokee indians but there seems to be no real proof of this. It has also been attributed to evangelical preacher Billy Graham and Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw. It appears no one knows for sure but this does not diminish the power of the parable.
This parable goes by many names including:
The Tale of Two Wolves
The Parable of the Two Wolves
Two Wolves
Which Wolf Do You Feed
Which Wolf are You Feeding
Which Wolf Will You Feed
It also often features different animals, mainly two dogs
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