Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Shane Enete is a professor who researches financial well-being. In Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, author Mihaly ...

The majority of baby boomers love to learn new things, but they think they’re too old to actually do so, according to new research. The survey of 2,000 Americans, split evenly by generation, revealed ...

I was recently getting a much-needed haircut with a new stylist, and in our small talk, he asked me what I do for a living. I explained that I teach current and future teachers how people learn and do ...

Someone stole $90 million from a company I was involved in. I'm a poor judge of people. The company collapsed. Some things I can't learn. I tend to like people too much. So it's hard for me to be a ...

If you stumble when you need to talk to someone in a language that isn’t your native language, do you think: “I just don’t have the knack for languages” or “Maybe I am not cut out to learn another ...

Memories of significant learning experiences—like the first time a driver gets a speeding ticket—are sharp, compared to the recollection of everyday events—like what someone ate for dinner two weeks ...

In most careers, a time comes when learning something that’s hard to comprehend in less time than would be ideal becomes integral to one’s performance and continued success in a professional role.

What is the optimal way to learn something new? In a recent JNeurosci paper, John Byrne and colleagues, from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, bring us a step closer to ...

Worried it's too late to learn something new? History? Photography? Computers? Health and wellness? A new language? You still can at the University of Dayton's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. "UD's ...

You spent over a decade in classrooms memorizing facts, cramming for tests, and highlighting textbooks. Yet nobody ever taught you how to actually learn. The education system focused on what to learn ...

As a “fiction-writer-in-training,” I’m in the midst and muck of learning how to put a story together and am amazed at the number of balls I have to keep in motion. I tell myself it’s so hard because I ...