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Bloom's Taxonomy

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Gardener's Multiple Intelligences

The evidence is clear: learning styles theory does work (article)

Take a survey test to help determine your Intelligences.

• With any survey or poll that YOU take, you should also have others take the survey for you, thinking about what they know of you and/or how you would/should answer.
• We gauge others by their behaviours and words, and we gauge ourselves by our intentions and thoughts.
• 1st, YOU take the test.
• 2nd, have a friend or close loved one take it in lieu of you.
• 3rd, have a few others take the survey test with you in mind.
• Take the survey test

Articles

Learning Philosophy

1. A Harvard psychologist says humans have 8 types of intelligence. Which ones do you score the highest in? (article)
2. Is Philosophy Simply Harder than Science? (article)
3. Who am I? Why am I here? Why children should be taught philosophy (beyond better test scores) (article)
4. For philosophy majors, the question after graduation is: What next? (article)
5. In praise of aphorisms:What if we see the history of philosophy not as a grand system of sustained critique but as a series of brilliant fragments? (article)
6. How Many Calories Can the Brain Burn by Thinking? (article)
7. The Christmas the Aliens Didn’t Come (article)

What is smart?

1. People with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks, research suggests (article)
   • as per States exercise and creative thinking
2. Neuroscience and a Dose of Emotional Intelligence Reveal a Simple Trick to Learn More With Less Effort (article)
3. IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries and that doesn't bode well for humanity (article)
4. With the Use of Heuristics, Anybody can Think Like a Philosopher (article)
5. If You Frame It Like That So much depends on the way a work is formatted (article)
6. Being Human [5] – Cultural Habits (article)
7. Collective Narcissism: Proud Groups & Nationalism make us toxic (article)
8. Coronavirus Responses Highlight How Humans Have Evolved to Dismiss Facts That Don’t Fit Their Worldview (article)
9. Integrative complexity is a measure of the intellectual style . . . (article)
10. Smarter individuals engage in more prosocial behavior in daily life, study finds (article)
11. Narcissists don’t learn from their mistakes because they don’t think they make any, study shows (article)

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Body, mood, and disposition

1. How to foster Shoshin (article)
2. The Yogi masters were right – breathing exercises can sharpen your mind (article)
3. Expecting a stressful day may lower cognitive abilities throughout the day (article)
4. Chronic work stress can change our personalities (article)
5. Psychologists find a mindset that can foster positive feelings amid interpersonal conflict (article)
6. Embodied cognition is not what you think it is (article)

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Know no know

• Stop using the word "know"
• When you ask if someone "knows something," you inadvertently are asking about their level of their intelligence.
• Instead, ask someone if they've "heard" of something.
• If they have heard of that thing, you can ask what they've heard.
• If not, they won't feel lessened by your question.