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Third, breaks deepen learning. In one experiment, taking a ten-minute break after learning something improved recall for students by 10 to 30 percent—and
Hidden Potential
Adam Grant
Chinese office workers can be annoying in the way they carefully dole out job‐related information, and sometimes even the most innocent of questions is treated with great caution. During a holiday period, I asked one woman who worked in an American client's office when the office would return to work. “Is everyone back on Tuesday?” I asked. “Is that what you heard?” she responded. This was common treatment in China. The woman did not wish to contradict something that a coworker might have said. Years ago, in my own office, I had such issues with communication. “Do you have the file on that plywood?” I asked a colleague. “File?” she responded. “Yes,” I said. “The plywood file.” “Plywood?” she asked. She had been working on nothing else for two weeks, so the reference was clear. Thinking that perhaps I had been mumbling, I clearly enunciated my words this time. “Yes, the file on plywood.” It took me years to work out that this was no more than a delay tactic. While I was asking (and repeating) my benign question, the office worker's head was spinning: Why is he requesting the file? Why now? Is this a trap? Does he suspect something wrong with my work? Should I buy time and review the data? Maybe the information is good and he will make the faux pas of complimenting me in front of my colleagues, who already despise me for my diligence. He seems the sort who would make that kind of mistake. What if my colleagues become envious? Better to appear reluctant to hand over the file at least, just in case. Like Deep Blue working out its next chess move, she was running scenarios and calculating odds.
What's Wrong With China
Paul Midler
Based on his data, Bouchard estimates that between one in ten and one in twenty people start with elevated aerobic capacity—though not nearly as high as the naturally fit six—and between one in ten and one in fifty people are high aerobic responders. “The probability that a person will be highly endowed and highly trainable is the product of those two probabilities,” Bouchard says. “It’s not pretty. It’s between one in one hundred and one in one thousand.”
The Sports Gene
David Epstein
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