An Unlearning Lesson From Yoda
September 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Unlearning “Ten”
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Unlearning Hollywood
September 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In today's Wall Street Journal there is an article entitled "Hollywood Hits the Books." The second paragraph of the article begins with this sentence, " Hollywood is racing to adopt novels, comics, and children's stories, as the ability of movie stars to draw audiences wanes." I have added an emphasis on the final part of [...]
Unlearning from Charly
May 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
This past weekend I finished reading "Flowers for Algernon" — which was made into the 1968 movie "Charly" with Cliff Robertson. The basic premise of the book is that a retarded man undergoes an experiment and it provides him with superior intelligence — albeit only for a short period of time. At one point near [...]
Unlearn Your Position
March 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
This past weekend I had the opportunity to watch an American film classic "12 Angry Men" with Henry Fonda. For anyone interested in unlearning, it is a great and entertaining tutorial. My favorite scene, however, occurred when one juror (Juror #11) decided to switch his vote from guilty to not guilty. Here's his reponse to [...]
Unlearning the Past
November 11, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Sometimes it is hard to forget how much change we have experienced in the recent past. To better help illustrate the point, I’d like to show you two photos. The top photo is from the 1991 hit movie, Pretty Woman. To demonstrate that Richard Gere’s character was a super successful businessman they showed him using [...]
Unlearn Short Attention Spans
July 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment
It is easy to fall prey to the belief that Americans — especially younger kids — have short attention spans. Yet if this is true why did millions of kids flock to the Harry Potter books? (For the record, the last three books were 870,652 and 759 pages, respectfully.) In other areas, the same is [...]
