Tag: Learning

  Photo courtesy Fe Langdon, available under Creative Commons on Flickr.   Self-respect is the courage to be yourself in any circumstances. Independently of how others think of you. You can simply face the inconvenience of not fitting in. Indeed, self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others. It has nothing to do […]
  Let me first clarify what I mean by a “bad idea” here. “Bad idea” means ineffective, at best and stopping progress, at worst. “Learning from mistakes” is an expression strongly rooted not only in our language, but also our thinking. It is accepted as a sound piece of advice for some or a trivial […]
What is learning for you? Please pause for a second and define it for yourself before reading on. Is it about books? English was difficult Let me start with a story. When I was in the secondary school I was poor at English. I could not understand it why. I was very good at math […]
Despite the elegance and necessity of generalization, there is however a danger to its use. It is the case when we generalize from examples which are unrepresentative for the given concept. If this happens, they are often too few in number. When I say “unrepresentative” I mean that the examples do not sufficiently illustrate the characteristics […]