Limitless Movie Review
So I saw Bradley ‘Faceman’ Cooper’s new movie Limitless on Saturday night. It’s about a washed-up writer dude who gets a cutting-edge pill that multiplies his IQ into a four digit figure… with dark consequences. “I wonder what you made of it?”, I hear you think. Well, wonder no more. First, the movie. Bradley Cooper was funny in The Hangover, or...
Read MoreIf Music is the Food of Brainpower, Play On!
Canadian researchers have discovered that there is a learning link between children who play a musical instrument and their performance in the classroom. Read about it here. Musically trained children tend to do better in memory tests and have a higher IQ scores on average than those who do not. How does it work? A professor, who specialises in the psychology of music, claims that music of...
Read MoreWorking Class – Heroes or Thicko(e)s?
An interesting debate broke out last week when some egg-head claimed that there is a direct relation between IQ and social class. Specifically, he said that the reason why few working class types get into the best universities is because.. higher social classes have a significantly higher average IQ than lower social classes Read his comments here. This debate interests me for several...
Read MoreWorkplace Excellence with Emotional Intelligence
We are holding a business event at Queen’s University Belfast. This is a one-day workshop. Emotional Intelligence (EI) is more than just a sign of the times or the latest management trend – although it is both. Work has changed to become more complex, fluid and pressured than ever before. There is recognition of the need to maximize individual performance: not just know-how and the...
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