Procrastination is a word whose usage has soared in the last few years. Is this something you often think about? In this video, Joe Hudson shares a point of view about procrastination that leads to a more peaceful atmosphere within ourselves. For many reasons, I highly recommend this video and I hope this will bring…
In my mission to help students sharpen their studying methodology, I am talking both to students and my colleagues in the Academia. If you are a scholar, this article was written for you. It is a bit longer than a blog post, and shorter than a scientific article, but I tried to make it as…
Competition has this massive advantage over an intellectual debate: the ones ahead win, regardless of what the competitors claim to be true. That’s why I tend to listen much more attentively to someone who has transformed failing teams into high-performing ones, like Sir David Brailsford has. The conversation brilliantly led by Stephen Bartlett was not…
As a university teacher of mathematics for more than 25 years (time flies!), I witnessed an evolution in the way that my students relate to difficulties, and math is difficult indeed. In recent years —even before the Covid-19 crazy period— I witnessed a sudden drop in the capacity to stay with an exercise or a…