mwfogleman + communication   81

More About the Socratic Method
There is a methodology to this, but it is so general when talking about any content or subject matter area, that it is almost impossible to describe in a specific step-by-step manner. The questions you would ask about flying a plane are different from what you would ask for baking a cake but the general principals of what you are trying to do are the same.

Finally, it doesn't always work. Socrates used to tick off people doing this; they thought he was mocking them by asking them stupid questions or tricking them into being confused because he was clever. They brought him to trial, convicted him, and executed him. While execution is not as much a potential problem today, the method still really irritates people when you (as it seems to them) "show them up" in subjects they think they are expert. Illogical people do NOT like this method used "on" them; and they cannot see it as a method that is being used "with" them in order to help them.
socratic  method  theory  reference  education  thinking  questions  tips  philosophy  communication  teaching 
december 2008 by mwfogleman
Depression: How You Label Determines How You Feel
In their fascinating study “Would you be happier if you were richer?”, published in Science, Princeton professors Alan Krueger and Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for his work in behavioral economics, found that perhaps the best indicator of happiness was frequency of eating with friends and family.
psychology  science  economics  health  communication  timferriss  depression  thought  suicide  friends  personal  food  happiness  mind  brain  gratitude 
december 2008 by mwfogleman
Jon Udell: language evolution in del.icio.us
An interesting video on language and tagging in del.icio.us (based on a very old version).
delicious  blogging  community  communication  bookmarking  blog  culture  design  screencast 
october 2007 by mwfogleman
« earlier      

related tags

2.0  37signals  academic  advice  agile  aim  anarchism  anarchy  ancientgreek  apenglish  app  apple  application  applications  apps  arguing  argument  arguments  army  art  article  articles  asking  askmetafilter  auction  audio  awesome  bailout  barackobama  bigbrother  blog  blogging  blogs  bodylanguage  bookmarking  books  bostonglobe  brain  business  calendar  career  cartoon  cartoons  cellphone  chillax  clean  client  cocoa  code  coding  cognition  collaboration  college  comic  comics  communication  community  computer  computers  computing  conference  conspiracy  conversation  cool  copyright  copywriting  craigslist  creativity  crime  criticism  critique  crowdsourcing  culture  customerservice  data  death  debate  delicious  depression  design  desktop  development  difficultpeople  digital  digitalhumanities  diy  documentary  download  duarte  e-mail  economics  economy  education  email  english  entrepreneurship  erinmckean  essay  ethics  etiquette  evanwilliams  evil  evolution  extrovert  face  faces  film  filmmaking  finance  financial  financialcrisis  food  free  freeware  friends  fun  funny  future  game  geek  genius  google  googlewave  government  grandcentral  graphics  gratitude  greek  growl  gtd  guide  hacks  happiness  health  hehe  history  howto  html5  human  humanities  humanity  humor  humour  ideas  im  improvement  information  infowar  innovation  inspiration  intelligence  interaction  interesting  interface  internet  interview  introvert  iphone  irc  israel  japanese  job  jobinterview  journalism  junto  keynote  language  languages  law  leadership  learning  leopard  lessons  lexicography  life  lifehack  lifehacker  lifehacks  lifestyle  linguistics  linux  list  literature  logic  lol  love  mac  macintosh  macosx  macworld  mail  management  mapping  marketing  mashup  media  method  microblogging  microsoft  middleeast  military  mind  mobile  moderation  modern  money  movies  mozilla  mp3  negotiation  neologisms  netiquette  network  networking  networks  neuroscience  news  nonprofit  obama  office  officepolitics  online  opensource  opinion  oreilly  organization  osx  outsourcing  overcomingbias  personal  personality  persuasion  philosophy  phone  piracy  planning  policy  politics  power  powerpoint  ppt  presentation  presentations  presenting  problemsolving  productivity  profanity  programming  projectmanagement  propaganda  psychology  publicspeaking  questions  radio  reading  recession  reference  relationships  research  resource  resources  rhetoric  romance  sadlonelypeoplewithtimeontheirhands  science  screencast  selfimprovement  selfimprovment  seniorproject  simple  simplicity  sjc  skills  slang  slide  slideology  slides  smalltalk  social  socialmedia  socialnetworking  socialsoftware  society  sociology  socratic  software  spanish  speaking  speech  startup  startups  stevejobs  stevepavlina  story  strategy  style  success  suicide  surveillance  swearing  talk  teaching  tech  technology  ted  telemarketing  telephone  theory  thinking  thought  thunderbird  time  timferriss  timoreilly  tips  toastmasters  tools  toread  towatch  training  travel  trends  tribes  tricks  trust  truth  tufte  tutorial  tutorials  twitter  us  usability  useful  utilities  video  videos  visualization  war  wave  web  web2.0  webcomic  webcomics  wiki  wikihow  wikipedia  wired  wireless  wisdom  work  writing  xkcd  youtube 

Copy this bookmark:



description:


tags: