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Should You Be a Passionate Lover? – 20
There is a stereotype that South American people have an emotional range that can reach higher levels of intensity, or at least that we are more prone to show and act under those emotions than people from other cultures. The stereotype goes in both directions in terms...
Is Confronting Authority a Good Idea? – 19
More than 20 years ago I watched the movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” with Jack Nicholson for the first time. If you haven’t watched it, I recommend you do. I remember that I sympathised with Nicholson’s character R.P. McMurphy. He seems to be rebelling against...
The Answer is Not at This Table – 18
It is perhaps ironic that I became so interested in communication, when in my teenage years my passion was playing chess. When playing chess there is no need for communication with other people, in chess the best idea wins. There is no need to convince other people...
Escape from Escapism and Reflect – 17
In the last three blog posts we looked at the importance of reflection for learning, how to reflect, and creating a learning portfolio. If one wants to learn and get better, reflective practice should be a very common habit. However, my intuition and personal...
Get Better and Better by Creating Your Personal Learning Portfolio – 16
In the previous blog posts, we looked at becoming a learning machine through reflection and how to reflect. Reflection or reflective practice is a way to learn from our own experiences with the objective to improve the way we think and act. Reflective practice can be...
Using Reflection to Become a Learning Machine – 15
In the previous blog post, we looked at the importance of reflection. Here we look at how to reflect. Reflecting is basically asking questions and seeking possible answers about something you experienced. The reflective process can be illustrated as a cycle. Cycles...