The Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative
Issue 8 | September 2018
Blog

Blog

Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds

"The economist J.K. Galbraith once wrote, “Faced with a choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy with the proof.”

What's going on here? Why don't facts change our minds? And why would someone continue to believe a false or inaccurate idea anyway? How do such behaviors serve us?"

Read James Clear's recent blog post about the power of habits, beliefs, and what it takes to change your mind.

Read Blog

Web Articles

Web Articles

Why You Need to Push Your Employees to Think Like Entrepreneurs

As a start-up is growing, the responsibility of its success doesn’t just lie on the founder but also on the employees who are contributing to the growth journey of the company. Find out how start-up founders are encouraging their employees to operate with an entrepreneurial drive.

Read More

We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment

"[I]t is increasingly clear that the mind is mainly drawn to the future, not driven by the past. Behavior, memory, and perception can’t be understood without appreciating the central role of prospection. We learn not by storing static records but by continually retouching memories and imagining future possibilities. Our brain sees the world not by processing every pixel in a scene but by focusing on the unexpected."

Learn More

Study

Study

The Millennial Economy: Findings from a new EY & EIG National Survey of Millennials

"Millennials are the future of the U.S. economy. But when it comes to their future, and the future of the country, they are a deeply pessimistic generation. EY and EIG conducted a new national public opinion survey of 1,200 Millennials to gauge their views on a variety of issues related to the economy at all levels—personal, local, and national—and the challenges they face almost seven years into the recovery from the Great Recession."

Read Findings

Featured Book

Featured Book

Peak by Anders Ericsson

"Have you ever wanted to learn a language or pick up an instrument, only to become too daunted by the task at hand? Expert performance guru Anders Ericsson has made a career of studying chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens. Peak condenses three decades of original research to introduce an incredibly powerful approach to learning that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring a skill."

Get the Book

 

Top of Mind  

 




You received this email because you are subscribed to our ELI Newsletter from The Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative.

Update your email preferences to choose the types of emails you receive.

Unsubscribe from all future emails