Category: Continual Learning

A corkboard with a note pinned on it using 2 red push pins. The note says "You will make mistakes... learn from them."

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Consider Increasing Your Error Budget

We all understand, the more at bats opportunities you have, the more hits you can have. A major goal of increasing your

Nathan S Collier standing at a podium delivering commencement speech

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NSC Commencement Speech to Fall 2025 UF Law Grads

More than 4 decades ago, I sat where you are today, graduating from one of the finest law schools in the country,

6 post-it notes arranged in a star shape. A blue one says "growth mindset", a yellow one says "goal setting", a white one says "personal development", a pink one says "positive thinking", a green one says "good habits", and an orange one says "self discipline"

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Do You Have Akrasia?

Akrasia (ἀκρασία) is from Ancient Greece and refers to a “lack of self-control” or a tendency to “act against one’s better judgment.”

This image shows an ostrich standing outdoors in a fenced, grassy area under a bright blue sky. The ostrich has its entire head and neck buried inside a blue metal barrel labeled “SAND.”

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Deliberate Ignorance aka The Ostrich Effect: Friend or Foe?

We live in an era of incredible access to… Information? Data? Misinformation? We are ceaselessly bombarded, messaged constantly… often with meaningless content

Two open heads silhouettes with arrows exchanging thoughts. Communication, idea, knowledge, teamwork and education concept.

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Opening Minds; Side Stepping the ‘Backfire Effect’

If you want to change someone’s mind, their mind must be open to change and, as much as we humans like to

A pair of male hands surrounding a crystal ball conjuring up a hologram on an isolated dark studio background

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Seeing Around Corners, Knowing the Future

Okay, the future is a story yet to be told, however, the better you are at ‘pattern recognition’, the stronger your anticipatory

A person's hand holding a sticky note that says "Every failure is a step to success", set against an outdoor background

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To Outplay the Field, You Must Outlearn the Field

Just as failure is rarely the result of a single cause, so too is success dependent upon good outcomes, often small ones,

The words "first attempt in learning" written on a chalkboard in white chalk with the first letter of each word written in color and a box drawn around the letter. These letters spell out the word "fail"

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I’m Willing to Work Poorly

Under certain circumstances, being willing to work poorly is NOT an acceptance of low standards, rather it is a willingness to be

A sign with an arrow pointing to the left that says "old habits" and an arrow pointing to the right that says "change"

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All too Many Never PiP

Oh, we humans! We are not thinking creatures with emotions, we are emotional beings who (occasionally) think. One result is that we

Conceptual illustration of a person holding a section of his face and looking in to his brain through a magnifying glass

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Peeling Back the Onion

Self-knowledge is a lifelong journey and the deeper we are willing to go, the greater the reward. To become truly self-aware requires

A road with yellow lines in the middle and the words "keep going"

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One Day it Will All Be Done… NOT!

Folks, I’ve got to tell you, there really is no finish line. Oh, there is goal accomplishment and task completion, all good