Engagement refers to the degree of attention, curiosity, or interest that a student shows when they are learning something new. Engagement can be fostered by different types of motivation—external and ...

Perhaps the biggest obstacle to change and innovation is not lack of ideas, resources, or time, but simply the fear of failure. Recognizing this, many leaders have asked me: how can we learn to accept ...

A person interacts with a custom-built Minecraft environment used to study adaptive social learning in a virtual foraging experiment. This study, published in Nature Communications, was designed to ...

What enables a student to be a successful learner in school, while others struggle? This question is being asked with renewed urgency, as many students work from home without as much face-to-face ...

Lifelong Learning Isn’t Optional — It’s Essential to Be a Successful CEO. Here’s How to Make It a Priority. Entrepreneurs and CEOs must be highly motivated, driven and curious, but most of all, they ...

From resilience to curiosity, a child psychologist shares five traits that may signal future success, and why all children ...

Ask a host of experts how to be smarter, and they’ll give you the same counterintuitive answer: acknowledge all the ways you’re probably being dumb. Warren Buffett’s right-hand man Charlie Munger ...

When a Boston University professor surveyed hundreds of former students, their advice on how to be successful was strikingly consistent. It’s graduation season, which means across the U.S. various ...

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian receives funding from the Wellcome Trust, the Leverhulme Foundation and the Lundbeck Foundation. Her research is conducted within the NIHR MedTech and In vitro diagnostic Co ...