Friday 25 October 2013

Life Skills for Success and Well-being in the 21st century, and beyond!

A short video animation explaining the reasons why a new set of life skills is required for success and well-being in the 21 century and what these life skills are.

Learning to Think - Part 2

This is the second part of the Learning to Think video. In this video we explore techniques that help overcome inherent assumptions and biases in our thinking. With the help of examples we learn how thinking skills form a spectrum - instinctive thinking, critical thinking, judicious decision making, creative thinking, problem solving, innovation and meta-cognition.

Wednesday 9 October 2013

Learning to Think - Introduction to Independent, Analytical & Creative Thinking (part-1)

This short video explores how the brain works, how our culture and life situations form our assumptions, beliefs and biases, how one system in our brain called the Lizard brain is responsible for survival instincts based 'fight or flight' decisions and the other called Neocortex is responsible for more deliberate thinking and how at times the lizard brain can misinterpret incoming sensory information and jump to wrong conclusions. Learning to think starts by understanding how our brain works.

Monday 30 September 2013

Timeless Lifeskills - The Second Strand of Education!

Education can be thought of as having a structure similar to the double-helix structure of the DNA. The first strand is formal education and Timeless Lifeskills form the second strand. This short video explains the building blocks of Timeless Lifeskills. Life skills that are essential for success and well-being in the 21st century, and beyond!