by Bruce Balmer | Mar 1, 2021 | Motivation, Statistics, Uncategorized
As chance would have it, I was recently asked to read another educational psychologist’s repot on another student. The report (expensive) stated that, among his many other problems, the student in question has “poor impulse control.” As I read it it...
by Bruce Balmer | Feb 22, 2021 | Accelerated Learning
The most important pre-skill for picking up skills is coach-ability. Why? Because there are people on this planet who already know whatever it is that you would like to know – so information is not generally the problem. The problem is, can you listen when the...
by Bruce Balmer | Feb 14, 2021 | Italian, Listening, Reading
Most people find reading a foreign language to be much easier than listening to a foreign language. Reading is easier for several reasons, the most important two of which are: Listening generally happens around 150+ words per minute, reading is at whatever speed you...
by Bruce Balmer | Feb 11, 2021 | French, German, Italian, Languages, Motivation, Spanish, Thai
At about the age of 27 I decided to learn to juggle. Nothing fancy, just three balls and a few tricks, for fun. Not trying to be a professional. I was absolutely convinced then as I am now and as I believe any honest observer of mankind is obliged to be, that the...
by Bruce Balmer | Feb 1, 2021 | Listening
In simple terms, juggling is about throwing and catching at the same time. And therein lies the challenge. Throwing is easy. Catching is easy. So why is juggling hard? Because you have to learn a new skill which is to concentrate on two actions at the same time...
