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• A reply on Talk: Sheena Iyengar: How to make choosing easier

  May 3 2013: I believe that it is true if you do not see where your choices are leading you! If you have a clear purpose in life, choosing comes less hurtful to our happiness!

• A reply on Talk: Chip Conley: Measuring what makes life worthwhile

  May 3 2013: Or remember the happy things - be happy about your past :)

• A comment on Talk: Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better

  May 1 2013: Another Ted Talk about what happens when you learn how to listen: http://www.ted.com/talks/ernesto_sirolli_want_to_help_someone_shut_up_and_listen.html

• A reply on Talk: Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better

  Apr 30 2013: Great to see that teachers engage in this! Too few though...

• A reply on Talk: Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better

  Apr 30 2013: There are som answers in his other talk: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps

• A comment on Talk: Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps

  Apr 30 2013: I like the idea of how sound makes us comfortable! I just changed to larger and more expensive headphones, and it makes a lot of difference.
  
  I used to run restaurants and it is amazing how different kinds of music makes people experience the environment. I recommend oversized soundsystems, especially the subwoofers and keep the volume down. Correctly done people can hear others talk AND the music at the same time. People don't get tired from trying to figure out the music AND what their company is saying.

• A reply on Talk: Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps

  Apr 30 2013: Read Kahneman "Thinking Fast & Slow" - he gives you the answer to this question.
  
  Also watch his TED-talk, even though it doesn't answer your question ;)
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  A comment on Conversation: We all need to support learning process.

  Mar 7 2013: In Sweden we have something called a National curricullum (or something spelled like that) and it states at what age everybody should have learned certain things. The problem is that all people are different, and while some learn how to read when they are 4 others have problems when they are 15. So the system fails and tells the "slow learners" that they need extra help, that in most cases don't exist.
  
  I went to a school that did something like Mitra's idea, but without the Cloud idea: let the children decide what they need to learn. This school was filled with slow learners that suddenly learned a lot, just not in the "correct" order. Kids who failed normal schools suddenly excelled in various subjects, and got more self esteem and confidence.
  
  In this school the teachers helped the kids to learn what they had decided themselves that they wanted to learn.
  
  The school got shut down for not following the national curriculum... not for poor results, but for not doing it "right".
  
  In general I support those who favour a different approach to teaching than the prevailing one, and especially if you see children as small people who have the abillity to learn, not the abillity to get stuffed!
  
  So again 6-7 year olds run to school with joy - 2 years later they just want to go home, how is that for a life for our kids?

• A reply on Talk: Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

  Mar 7 2013: I did not ignore the criticism, but just because there is problems with an idea it does not mean that it is wrong.
  
  I don't think that anyone disqualifies the teachers, just the system. I do not know where you come from and how it works, but I would guess that it is simillar to Sweden where we have something called a National curricullum (or something spelled like that) and it states at what age everybody should have learned certain things. The problem is that all people are different, and while some learn how to read when they are 4 others have problems when they are 15. So the system fails and tells the "slow learners" that they need extra help, that in most cases don't exist.
  
  I went to a school that did something like Mitra's idea, but without the Cloud idea: let the children decide what they need to learn. This school was filled with slow learners that suddenly learned a lot, just not in the "correct" order. Kids who failed normal schools suddenly excelled in various subjects, and got more self esteem and confidence.
  
  The school got shut down for not following the national curriculum... not for poor results, but for not doing it "right".
  
  I can not speak for Mitra's research or ideas in specifics, but in general I support those who favour a different approach to teaching than the prevailing one, and especially if you see children as small people who have the abillity to learn, not the abillity to get stuffed!
  
  So again 6-7 year olds run to school with joy - 2 years later they just want to go home, how is that for a life for our kids?

• A comment on Talk: Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

  Mar 6 2013: Well, I did not say that. I was just arguing against the criticism. I have not read any of his work, just seen the talk, and of course we all experience things differently, even scientific method and research.
  
  Just hearing what he says and taken into account my own personal experience, it does not look like he means to abolish schools, just reinvent them. There are a lot of good examples of schools that teach in a good way, but too many examples of schools that stuff kids with "education".
  
  I witnessed some years ago a school that taught in the way I (may) imagine Mitra means, and it was very successful in teaching kids that did not function in the normal schools. The problem was that this school did not follow the National Curricullum and therefore, even though producing good results, had to shut down.