by natecooper | Jun 25, 2019 | books, cool, culture, education, Mindfulness, Psychology, Science, technology
I recently picked up a book by Moheb Constandi called Neuroplasticity. It was published by MIT Press in 2016 and I was mostly interested in reading about the current state of the science on the subject. Neuroplasticity is a general term that describes a number of...
by natecooper | Feb 6, 2019 | books, culture, digital media, internet, media, Mindfulness, Nate's Thoughts, Psychology, technology
Last Monday I entered a wide corporate lobby with marbled floors and an imposing security desk. In midtown Manhattan on the second floor lies a kind of open floor plan tech campus home of Company. The backdrop of the event’s stage were gilded age windows...
by natecooper | Jun 6, 2018 | cities, cool, culture, Cut Your Learning Curve
In this episode of Cut Your Learning Curve, I speak with my friend Juvoni Beckford. Juvoni grew up in the Bronx. At a young age, Juvoni recognized the patterns that kept people from in his environment from reaching their full potential. Through a lot of hard work and...
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 | 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...