ANNE MEETS ANTHEA MEETS JONATHAN
A transformative guide to rethinking your approach to goals, creativity, and life itself from a neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and creator of the popular Ness Labs newsletter.
1. Rewilding education. We need to redesign learning environments to support hyper curiosity. This means welcoming neurodivergent thinking, embracing experimental learning, and encouraging nonlinear paths.
2. Reclaiming attention. The attention economy hijacks hypercuriosity. We must treat attention as a precious resource worth protecting both individually and culturally by resisting algorithmic distraction and setting boundaries around our focus.
3. Reimagining technology. Digital tools should support hypercuriosity, not exploit it. We need interfaces (including AI) that help us ask better questions, discover new information, connect ideas, and integrate knowledge.
Commitment doesn’t need to feel rigid.
It can feel playful, open, and grounded in exploration.
That’s what a pact is:
That’s what a pact is:
a curiosity-driven commitment to test one thing for a set amount of time, using this simple format:
“I will [action] for [duration].”
PACT stands for: Purposeful, Actionable, Continuous, Trackable.
“I will [action] for [duration].”
PACT stands for: Purposeful, Actionable, Continuous, Trackable.
Anne raises many curious learning questions I've applied since those early learning days of asking better questions... especially during the so called "digital education revolution" in NSWDET in 2008
Then read Anthea's views on similar research.
(Oh, and don't forget Jonathan Haidt's seminal book "The Anxious Generation" )
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By Anthea Roberts
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