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A new study shows a strategic mindset is as important as grit or intelligence for success.

Via Luis Valdes, Jose Luis Yañez

“The Thinker,” Auguste Rodin’s bronze sculpture, has become a visual cliché, a common representation of deep thought — a figure, gazing down, chin on hand, completely alone. This is utterly misleading, according to the authors of “The Knowledge Illusion,” which carries the subtitle: “Why We Never Think Alone.” Steven Sloman, a professor at Brown University, and Philip Fernbach, a professor at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business, argue that our intelligence depends on the people and things that surround us, and to a degree we rarely recognize. Knowledge, they say, is a community effort. Sloman answered questions from Mind Matters editor Gareth Cook. 

Via David Hain

Get lost in a good book. Time and again, reading has been shown to make us healthier, smarter, and more empathic.

Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge