The Unfair Truth About How Creative People Really Succeed — Hackerpreneur magazine — Medium “First, an individual must master her craft in a given domain (art, science, mathematics). Then, this person must offer the creative work to a field of influencers in that domain who are trusted experts. Finally, the gatekeepers decide if the work […]

http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21663182-abrahamic-faiths-struggle-reconcile-tribalism-universal-values-bloodied?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/bloodiedbrothers “In an intelligent analysis of old and new connections between religion and violence, he dissects stories like those of Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Esau and Jacob, and of course, Abraham himself. He tackles this task with the tenderness of a believer and the rigour of a scholar, drawing both on a thorough […]

Self-control saps memory resources “These findings strongly suggest that self-control and memory encoding share common brain structures and mechanisms, and compete with each other for them, and so support Chiu and Egner’s “inhibition-induced forgetting” hypothesis. These shared neural resources are limited, and so response inhibition quickly saps them, making fewer available for the encoding of […]

“Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” “As it turns out, there is zero statistically significant gender difference in mental rotation ability after test-takers are asked to imagine themselves as stereotypical men for a few minutes. None. An entire standard deviation of female underperformance is negated on this condition, just as a man’s performance is slightly […]