Contrary to conventional thinking, it's never too late to learn a new language. Use these tips to get started. For more than two years, Dulcie Shoener of Milwaukee has done daily German lessons on her ...

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Recently, a close friend’s niece was having trouble graduating from college. She needed to pass a math class to graduate but wouldn’t take it because she feared flunking it. A belief that she just ...

Some people would have you believe that it takes 10,000 hours to learn a new skill. But not necessarily. In his TEDx Talk, "The first 20 hours," author and business expert Josh Kaufman busted the myth ...

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Sooner or later, everyone fails at something. But does everyone learn from their failures? In fact, the evidence suggests that most people struggle to grow from mistakes and defeats. When researchers ...

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Blackboard Learn 9.1 translates legacy courses into what it calls Original courses. But even those Original courses receive some noteworthy improvements. First and foremost, they’ll look as good ...

One summer in college I canvassed for a local non-profit. We went door to door telling people about the organization and asking them to sign various petitions. I recited my spiel a hundred times. “Hi, ...