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Extraordinary
Everyone is singing in English, then Canadian singer Bryan Adams comes along and starts singing in Italian. You can see how delighted Luciano Pavarotti is, with a huge smile on his face. He seems genuinely impressed and deeply appreciative of the respect Bryan is showing, and you can even see him bowing at the end of the song.
There’s something I can learn from this. If everyone showed love and respect for one another, the world would be a much better place.
Music video by Luciano Pavarotti, Bryan Adams performing "O Sole Mio" (Live).
This really is the whole and I love that he emphasises the emotional healing aspect.
Healing >> dissolves limiting beliefs >> creates space for new beliefs
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Phone-free schools work just as well in Latin America. A report from a survey in Uruguay: “There is a broad consensus that the measure was positive ”
montevideo.com.uy/Noticias/-…
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Jay is right. The burden of proof should be on those who want to ADD tech to schools. It was a huge mistake to allow smartphones in, and most likely the same for Chromebooks and tablets on students desks. Next mistake: waving AI in without extensive testing.
It took far too long to ban smartphones from classes because we put the burden of evidence on the wrong side of the argument:
People demanded overwhelming scientific evidence to remove phones from schools. They put the burden of evidence on people who wanted to remove phones. Or they claimed the effect sizes were too small to care. This maintained the status quo for a long time.
But we never required RCTs to keep video games, personal TVs, walkie talkies, or all kinds of other distractions out of the classroom. It was common sense that these would distract students from learning.
Instead, we should require clear scientific evidence before we *add* student smartphones or any other distruptive technology en mass into schools.
We need to establish the right baseline set of assumptions before we start to craft evidence-based policies or people end up defending a bad status quo.
I'm open to being convinced on this issue. But I have yet to see any compelling evidence we should ever let these devices back into classes. The more anecdotes, reports from teachers, scientific studies, and reasoned arguments I've heard on this issue have convinced me that we should keep them out.
Sounds insane (and yes, there have been critiques. But, in the control trials, the robots with no chicks moved entirely randomly).
But it raises a question:
If infant chickens can nudge machines with intention—what can focused humans do?
What you decide is possible reshapes what becomes possible.
Who you're being and the quality of your internal dialogue impacts everyone around you.
The most important skill you'll ever develop as a leader is your ability to control the monologue in your head.
What if your thoughts shaped the world?
Not just your mood, or even your body. But the physical world around you.
Turns out, they might.
In the 1990s, French researcher René Peoc’h ran a bizarre experiment.
He let baby chicks “imprint” on a robot instead of their mother.
