Markers of executive functioning, including prudent future planning and impulse control, are associated with conscientiousness and may be crucial for both occupational success and health outcomes.

The ability to recognize gaps in one’s knowledge (intellectual humility) is important for thinking and reasoning. Does intellectual humility transmit intergenerationally? Examining relations between parent and child measures. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Behavior change isn't about forcing people to do things. It's about fixing the systems that block what they already want to do.

Each of the Brain’s Neurons Is Like Multiple Computers Running in Parallel singularityhub.com/2025/04/21/e...

The subject of farming and nature caught my attention. We can learn from nature a lot.
1. Regenerative farming pioneer Joel Salatin:
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2. Dr. Deborah M. Gordon book “The ecology of collective behavior”
3. Elizabeth Markevitch, artist, Exhibition curator

Synesthesia (mixing of senses), aphantasia (inability to visualize), anhedonia (lack of ability to find activities pleasurable), ASMR (tingly sensation in head from repetitive movements or whispering), asexuality (lacking the experience of sexual attraction) - differences between ppl

Meta-learning is learning to learn, which includes the development of capacities to transfer what people learned in one specific domain to other domains.

For parents of teenage classical musicians, the path to success is not always straightforward. Read this article with great advise what to do:
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Doubling size of the US H1B visa program increases US and EU growth by 4% in the long run, because it sorts inventors to where they produce more innovations and knowledge spillovers. New paper, The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer, and Growth.
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Parents are the prefrontal cortex of their children! The prefrontal cortex is responsible for decisionmaking, planning, and impulse control—things that teenagers are still developing. Adults play a crucial role in helping children think through big decisions

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