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Larkin was wrong: parenting makes less difference than we think

Aug 11, 2017 | Category: Featured
Being a parent is a terrifying responsibility. The message of Larkin's poem, ‘This Be The Verse’, is that parents cannot help but pass on their failings to their children, and that the reason we...
#Judith RIch Harris #heritability #parenting

Practice vs. talent: Five principles for effective teaching

May 06, 2017 | Category: Featured
Are we the way we are because of our natures or is talent just the product of hard work? Which matters more natural ability of practice?A few years ago my mother reminded me of my struggles with learn...
#Reading #deliberate practice #personality #heritability

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