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Why we remember the stories
February 9, 2020In a recent post, we saw that grade school and graduate school classrooms are similar in at least one...
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Stories can make any lesson far more powerful
January 10, 2020In the previous post, we saw that story’s sequential flow is a significant element of its power as a...
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Why narrative stays so long in our minds
December 9, 2019My recent reflecting on how Paul Revere became a household name in the United States got me thinking once...
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Science vs. story: which approach is the most useful for learning?
September 17, 2019In the past weeks, I have written about my students’ capacity to recall, with high levels of precision and...
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Why stories slide into our memories without effort
August 28, 2019We ended last time with the assertion that moving to narrative-based learning provoked significant, and truly positive, changes in...
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When reality beats theory: why we learn so much from real-life events
July 25, 2019At the end of the last post, I commented that my decision to use the case method – where...
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How teachers can have a lasting impact
July 12, 2019The previous post closed with a question I have been ruminating for many years, and in a variety of...
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The power of using narrative in teaching
July 1, 2019About 20 years ago, when I was a professor at the Grenoble Graduate School of Business, I made the...
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I will miss Lucy Kellaway
August 9, 2017My post today is a bit of a departure from the sort of topic I usually write about. It...
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Learning, struggling, building character, and expanding our minds
October 17, 2014This week, some brief—and a bit more personal—reflections on the value of our mental challenges and struggles, and how...