Self-development - page 7

One needs to make a lot of efforts to be successful and happy, because personal growth is what makes us not only sought-after specialists, but also brings with it a measure of being responsible and good people.

Multitasking is a word every woman knows. Women are capable of devoting time to their family, their appearance and, of course, building a career.

Why should an average person be financially literate? The reason is that we live in an era of consumption! One of the main criteria for judging the success of a person is to look at his bank balance.

Professions, skills and knowledge which were in demand just a few years ago might suddenly become irrelevant today.

Burnout syndrome is a “diagnosis” that almost every employee who works non-stop faces.

Mr. Pong, a professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, has told Lectera Magazine how high-tech vocational training is changing in China today.

Jared Stein, Canvas Vice President, has told Lectera Magazine how technology is changing the relationship between people in general and especially between participants in the learning process.

Dale Johnson, Director of Adaptive Initiatives at the Arizona State University (USA), tells Lectera Magazine what adaptive learning is, how it differs from classical learning, and how it can be applied.

Willy Wijnands tells Lectera Magazine about the future education process and teacher training for future education programmes.

Professor Kloos has told Lectera Magazine about the high-tech educational tools that are being developed by his team.

The “Lockdown” is a test of strength for the whole family. Not only do you have to organize a comfortable home office whilst working remotely from home, but you also need to get together a school for your children in the same space.

Learning new skills is always exciting as you challenge yourself, broaden your mind and raise the bar.

Have you recognized Larry Crown in the picture? Having to change his profession, he started a new life, better than the previous one. And everybody can do that!

Where should you begin, once youhave set your sights on studying online?

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the best educational institutions around the world started to actively conduct distance exams. For example, now you can take the GMAT test remotely, while previously it could be done only in person at testing centers.

We spend a significant part of our lives at work, and I’m sure you’ll agree that it would be a shame to spend all these hours employed doing something you don’t like.

It’s the height of summer! The nights are shorter, and the sun is hot. Now is the right time to take life into your own hands and initiate positive changes in your life, because if not now then when? After all, the development and conquest of new heights are impossible without inner transformation, overcoming obstacles and self-improvement. 

Recent studies by Harvard Business Review and Deloitte have shown that the knowledge that a student now gets at university becomes outdated after just five years.  Moreover, according to LinkedIn statistics, most of the 20 fastest growing jobs appeared less than five years ago.

To follow the right path in life, you need to ask yourself the right questions. Even Voltaire believed that people could be judged by the questions they asked rather than their answers. This approach is still relevant today, hundreds of years later. Questions inspire self-reflection, open you to unexpected discoveries and can even serve as a substitute for therapy.

We absorb new information in different ways at different ages. Learning depends upon both the state of our health status, brain activity, and also our psychological state of mind. Then there’s the widely held misconception that adults have more trouble learning than children, and older people learn with more difficulty than adults.

Technologies, gadgets and the Internet are not evil if you know how to use them properly. Today, we spend most of our time staring at the screens of our smartphones, or other digital devices. Since these technologies aren’t going anywhere, it’s high time we changed our attitude and started making the most of our smart devices and our time spent online.

If you are interested in complex or obscure topics, your chances of finding relevant courses at an online university are much higher than at traditional universities or colleges.

If education still evokes images of school and university that requires a lot of time (and only while you’re still young and free of responsibilities), it’s time to destroy this stereotype once and for all! Thankfully, the world is moving forward, and traditional educational institutions are no longer the only option for people who want to learn something new or develop their professional skills.

Five or seven years ago, perfectionism was in. The word had just made it into the vocabulary of the cool crowd, so if your eye started twitching when you saw a photo of floor tiles that were poorly aligned, people nodded understandingly and proclaimed you were a ‘Perfectionist!’