by Margie Meacham | Jan 21, 2016 | LearningToGo Blog
Matthew Donovan of GP Strategies gave a webinar on the Neuroscience of Learning. Of course I was interested so I joined the session. Imagine my surprise when he mentioned my book right up there with works by David Rock, John Medina and Will Thalheimer! I’m...
by Margie Meacham | Jan 15, 2016 | LearningToGo Blog
In January we celebrate the birthday of Hermann Ebbinghaus, the psychologist who discovered the learning curve, the forgetting curve, the spacing effect and several other fundamental behaviors of human learning. As a learning professional, you probably use his work...
by Margie Meacham | Jan 8, 2016 | LearningToGo Blog
Every time we experience an explosion of technological capabilities, we humans are faced with new choices to make. For example, when the first successful heart transplants were performed in the late 1960s, questions about ethical considerations arose: “How will we...
by Margie Meacham | Dec 11, 2015 | LearningToGo Blog
Think about the last major purchase decision you made. You probably conducted careful research, compared feature sets, searched for product reviews, sought out the opinion of friends and colleagues, and ultimately, made what you consider to be a logical decision. At...
by Margie Meacham | Nov 19, 2015 | LearningToGo Blog
A few years ago, I got a call from a good friend. She and a friend were planning the vacation of a lifetime in Paris – did I want to come? I jumped at the chance and we started planning. My friends both manage projects for a living and I’m no stranger to the...
by Margie Meacham | Nov 12, 2015 | LearningToGo Blog
You know the quotation: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” But our brains might process the sensation of smelling that rose differently if we named it something else. The power of names Verbal abilities are a...
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