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Time Investments

Almost everybody agrees that time is the most valuable resource. However, many people make investments in resources (assets, money) instead of doing the same with time. Let us check the most common cases when time investments are worth doing it.

BusinessYevhen ShyshkinDecember 23, 2020time, investment, saving, education, learning, health, fitness, planning, decomposition, evaluationComment

Learn, Understand, and Use

There is a common situation when a person has participated in training or finished a course, but he can’t solve any related problem afterward. Why does it happen? Let us check how people learn, understand, and use their knowledge in real life.

BusinessYevhen ShyshkinNovember 25, 2020learning, understanding, usage, knowledge, chain, successComment

Thinking Outside The Box

There is a common issue in working with people — they can think using only known patterns and can not take a step further. This issue is especially important in the R&D areas where the main goal is to invent new and better approaches. What can we do about it?

Communication, BusinessYevhen ShyshkinMarch 18, 2020thinking, outside the box, effort, laziness, professional, routine, new, learning, progressComment

On Professional Experience

Why are some employers looking for the junior specialist, while others need seniors? Why may a senior specialist have a salary ten times greater than a junior? And why this separation exists at all? Let us check what is the difference between different levels of specialists, and try to answer these questions.

Business, CommunicationYevhen ShyshkinJanuary 22, 2020professional, experience, skill, learning, time, team, teamwork, junior, middle, senior, specialist, salary, separationComment

Motivation In Learning

Every person who ever conducted any training knows that some students are more interested in the topic than the others. It happens not because of an imperfect training program or lack of teacher’s charisma. No, the most significant difference is in the motivation of students. So, how to motivate them to achieve the best results?

CommunicationYevhen ShyshkinNovember 6, 2019motivation, learning, teaching, student, teacher, goal, knowledge, reason, action, result, experience, soft skills, communicationComment

On Learning and Aging

Everybody knows that the older the person, the harder it is to learn something new, and it is usually taking longer and longer to do it. However, even though this statement is theoretically true, there are a couple of curious observations indicating that it is not as simple as that. Let us have a look at some facts and see the connection between a learning process and aging.