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Flummoxed by Failure—or Focused?
The Wall Street Journal: Many people think of intelligence as static: you are born with lots of brains, very few, or somewhere in between, and that quantum of intelligence largely determines how well you do
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¿Se es mas sabio con la edad? (Are we wiser with age?)
ABC España: Todos recordamos la serie Kung Fu, con el anciano e inteligente maestro chino dando consejos a su «pequeño saltamontes». Hace dos años, Igor Grossmann, de la Universidad de Waterloo (Canadá), se preguntó si
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Gecijferdheid
de Volkskrant: ‘In de ACME Sponsorloterij is de kans op het winnen van een auto 1 op 1.000. Hoeveel procent van de lootjes in de ACME Sponsorloterij wint een auto?’ Zelfs van redelijk geschoolde mensen
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Sind Sie risikointelligent?
20 Minuten Online: Kritisch und gleichzeitig kreativ mit Risiken umzugehen – das wird von vielen, insbesondere von Menschen in höheren Positionen im Arbeitsalltag verlangt. Vielfach wähnen sich die Betroffenen während des Entscheidungsprozesses am Roulette-Tisch: Rot
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Can You Make Yourself Smarter?
The New York Times: Early on a drab afternoon in January, a dozen third graders from the working-class suburb of Chicago Heights, Ill., burst into the Mac Lab on the ground floor of Washington-McKinley School
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Older and Wiser?
The Economist: One stereotype of wisdom is a wizened Zen-master smiling benevolently at the antics of his pupils, while referring to them as little grasshoppers or some such affectation, safe in the knowledge that one