Tag: Head fakes

Inspiration

Insanely Interesting and Influential People – #2 Paulo Coelho

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of […]

Creativity, Ideas

How to Teach Young Adults to Identify Fake News? Make a Game they can Play!

I recently read this article about a new video game that is on Kickstart that allows young adults to learn about how to distinguish between real and fake news. You can read the article here.  I believe this is a great idea for the following reasons:  People learn a lot when they are having fun and don’t think about learning. I wrote about the concept of head fakes in my post about what I learnt from Randy Pausch’s last lecture. You can read that blog here. If the team designs the game well, which I believe they would, the chances […]

Ancient Wisdom, Leadership, Personal Growth

Life Lessons from The Last Lecture of Randy Pausch

This was the title of the last lecture delivered by Randy Pausch at the Carnegie Mellon University lecture hall. He was terminally ill and only had a few days to live. If you have not watched this video, I would strongly encourage you to spend the hour and 15 mins that it takes to watch the video and while you do so, please do have a notebook close to you and take notes. In his humorous talk, he shares some great wisdom on life and how to live a life worth living. You can watch the video here. When there […]