by natecooper | May 30, 2018 | culture, Cut Your Learning Curve, digital media, education
“Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.” Thomas Carlyle I think about this quote a lot when I sit down to write. Or rather sometimes when I don’t. It’s because I struggle with what might be called writers block but is...
by natecooper | Apr 3, 2018 | digital media, internet, Mindfulness, nate, Nate's Thoughts, Psychology
For the past several weeks I have been conducting an experiment on the relationship between myself and my phone. It is not a new device or anything super fancy. (It’s an iPhone 8 I believe). Each day, I prep my phone to manage how I want it to interrupt my day. I do...
by natecooper | Jan 1, 2018 | culture, education, technology
New Podcast! Cut Your Learning Curve: Hack Your Brain to Learn Skills, Increase Your Potential, and Get The Life You Want Available today! Subscribe now on iTunes or Google Play Is Learning Problem Solving? Over the past 7 years as I’ve been teaching people how...
by natecooper | Dec 18, 2017 | cool, culture, education, Nate's Thoughts
One thing I’ve learned in my experience teaching adults is that we don’t often stop to ask ourselves when we have learned something. This is one reason I think that people tend to sign up to take a class. They want someone (hopefully an expert) to tell them that they...
by natecooper | Nov 14, 2017 | Business, Nate's Thoughts, personal, Psychology
Carol Dweck, an accomplished psychologist and professor of psychology identified in her book Mindset two approaches to what I would call problem solving. There is the fixed mindset approach and a growth mindset approach. When confronted with a challenge, someone in...