Read Past Issues Of The Brilliant Report!
Enjoy reading The Brilliant Report, but missed a previous issue? I’ve collected them here:
Take a look at my most popular articles about learning—on subjects ranging from improving your performance through ruthless practice, to what happens in your brain when you read fiction, to why daydreaming isn’t a waste of time.
Seven ways to sharpen your memory, why we learn best through stories, and the month’s most popular columns—from the value of feeling frustrated to why talking to yourself isn’t crazy.
Get motivated to learn, using six approaches provided by the science of learning. Also: Remember more without trying, use your emotions to improve learning, and find out how to get—and keep—someone’s attention.
A special double issue of The Brilliant Report—with articles about improving your number sense, improving your word sense, most-popular articles and blog posts, and more.
This issue’s feature article: How to make anything—yes, anything—interesting. Plus: This month’s most-read articles (from how to use technology to make you smarter to how to identify a “super school”), this month’s most-read blog posts (including why coffeeshops spur creativity and why “learning agility” is a key characteristic of a leader), and a collection of my all-time most popular writing on learning, on subjects like what your dog is thinking and how your brain responds to reading fiction.
This issue’s feature article: Is technology rewiring your child’s brain? Plus: This week’s most-read blog posts (from how to make toys really educational to why English is such a difficult language to learn), a collection of my articles and posts on the subject of creativity (from how to make your mornings more creative to why taking a hike boosts your creativity), and a memorable quote about how intelligence is created, from learning expert Lauren Resnick.
This issue’s feature article: Three big trends in learning to look for in 2013. Plus the week’s top blog posts (on subjects ranging from what children need to thrive to why study skills and motivation matter more than IQ), and a collection of articles and blog posts on the topic of the brain (taking on questions like why we have such big brains and whether the brain was designed to read). Wrapping it all up is a quote by learning expert Wendy L. Ostroff about why adults should leave children alone when they play.
This issue’s feature article: Find out why the students of a Nobel Prize winning physicist and professor weren’t learning much—and what that physicist did to exponentially increase their learning. Plus, engage in debates with two of today’s most interesting thinkers—Dan Pink and Nicholas Carr—and read this week’s top blog posts. Wrap it all up with articles and posts about science education, and a Brilliant Quote about why we all need to be scientists now.
In this issue of The Brilliant Report: Three secrets to sticking to it and seeing your learning through to the end. Plus, this week’s top blog posts, a selection of articles and posts about practicing, and an introduction to the Brilliant Forum, where you’ll hear from Alison Gopnik, Dan Willingham and Nicholas Carr. Finishing it off is this week’s Brilliant Quote from David Perkins, about “intelligence in the wild.”
The Brilliant Report, Issue 10
In this issue of The Brilliant Report: Why a sense of belonging is so important to learning, and how to foster it in yourself and others. Plus, this week’s top blog posts, a selection of articles and posts about attention, and an invitation to participate in the Brilliant Forum, where you’ll hear from Alison Gopnik, Brink Lindsey and Hara Estroff Marano. Finishing it off is this week’s Brilliant Quote from cognitive scientist Gary Marcus, about where musicians’ talent comes from.
The Brilliant Report, Issue 11
In this issue of The Brilliant Report: How to lift the “curse of expertise,” and share your knowledge effectively with others. Plus, this week’s top blog posts, a selection of articles and posts about music, and this week’s Brilliant Quote from psychologist Richard Nisbett, about the strategies used by successful tutors.
The Brilliant Report, Issue 12
In this issue of The Brilliant Report: Why we should “tie ourselves to the mast” to focus attention and avoid distraction. Plus, this week’s top blog posts, a selection of articles and posts about testing, and a Brilliant Quote from cognitive scientist Sian Beilock, about a simple way to boost scores on standardized tests.
The Brilliant Report, Issue 13
In this issue of The Brilliant Report: Simple and effective ways to eliminate test anxiety. Plus, this week’s top blog posts, a selection of articles and posts about non-cognitive skills, and a Brilliant Quote from psychologists Elizabeth and Robert Bjork, about why it’s a good idea to “make things hard on yourself” when you learn.
The Brilliant Report, Issue 14
In this issue of The Brilliant Report: Why feeling confused can help you learn better. Plus, this week’s top blog posts, a selection of articles and posts about sports and exercise, and a Brilliant Quote from Stanford education professor Deborah Stipek, about why students lose their love of learning and how we can restore it.
The Brilliant Report, Issue 15
In this issue of The Brilliant Report: When competition boosts your performance—and when it’s counterproductive. Plus, this week’s top blog posts, a selection of articles and posts about gender issues, and a Brilliant Quote from professor and researcher David C. Geary, about why we should take evolution into account when we think about how we learn.
The Brilliant Report, Issue 16
In this issue of The Brilliant Report: How to avoid the overconfidence trap. Plus, this week’s top blog posts, a selection of articles and posts about praise, rewards, and motivation, and a Brilliant Quote from cognitive psychologist Stephen L. Chew about why working harder isn’t always the answer.
The Brilliant Report, Issue 17
In this issue of The Brilliant Report: A surprising way to improve your all-important “executive functioning.” Plus, this week’s top blog posts, a selection of articles and posts about the importance of sleep, and a Brilliant Quote from Daniel Pink’s new book, featuring veteran teacher Larry Ferlazzo on the way to move people.
The Brilliant Report, Issue 18
In this issue of The Brilliant Report: How to give feedback that actually makes a difference. Plus, this week’s top blog posts, a selection of articles and posts about success in college (and after), and a Brilliant Quote from IQ researcher James Flynn, originator of the “Flynn effect.”
The Brilliant Report, Issue 19
In this issue of The Brilliant Report: How to use high expectations to produce superior results. Plus, this week’s top blog posts, a selection of articles and posts about play, and a Brilliant Quote from Brink Lindsey, author of the very interesting new book Human Capitalism.
The Brilliant Report, Issue 20
In this issue of The Brilliant Report: How to increase the intelligence of your team. Plus, this week’s top blog posts, a selection of articles and posts about literature, and a Brilliant Quote from Michael E. Martinez about intelligence as “a repertoire of learnable cognitive functions.”
The Brilliant Report, Issue 21
In this issue of The Brilliant Report: How to stimulate curiosity, in yourself and others. Plus, this week’s top blog posts, a selection of articles and posts about teenagers, and a Brilliant Quote from playwright and mathematician John Mighton learning to believe in our potential rather than our limitations.
The Brilliant Report, Issue 22
In this issue of The Brilliant Report: How a feeling of power makes you think and act more intelligently. Plus, this week’s top blog posts, a selection of articles and posts about meditation and mindfulness, and a Brilliant Quote from Thomas A. Stewart about why knowledge is the economy’s most important product.
The Brilliant Report, Issue 23
In this week’s issue of The Brilliant Report: How to unlearn mistaken ideas. Plus, this week’s top blog posts, a selection of articles and posts about MOOCs, and a Brilliant Quote from Bill Lucas and Guy Claxton about why expanding intelligence is about cultivating dispositions.
The Brilliant Report, Issue 24
In this issue of The Brilliant Report: A simple exercise that works wonders: affirm your core values. Plus, this week’s top blog posts, a selection of articles and posts about learning a foreign language, and a Brilliant Quote from Harvard University psychologist Ellen Langer about how intelligence is about creating options, not choosing among them.
The Brilliant Report, Issue 25
In this issue of The Brilliant Report, an article on an enormously important issue: how the contemporary habit of media multitasking is affecting the way young people learn.