Jan Höglund's Blog

Category: Learning

  • Retrospective 2024-42

    This is a retrospective of week 42, 2024 (2024-10-14–2024-10-20). I’ve seen The Challenge of Rudolf Steiner (part 1 & part 2) this week. Rudolf Steinder said we shouldn’t “accumulate learning” as our own “treasure of knowledge”, but “place this learning in the service of the world”.1 He called Goethe the “Copernicus and the Kepler of…

  • Tom Campbell and Iain McGilchrist on the Nature of Reality

    The following is from a discussion between Tom Campbell and Iain McGilchrist on the nature of reality. Iain McGilchrist is asked to start with providing an “elevator pitch”: Iain (6:05): Yes, I ought to be able to give an elevator pitch… I begin from exploring…the difference between the two brain hemispheres. … These two parts…

  • Retrospective 2024-02

    This is a retrospective of week 2 2024 (2024-01-08–2024-01-14). Here is the retrospective of the previous week. I’m currently reading the following books: I’ve started reading: Notes:1. See Attention as a moral Act: Iain McGilchrist and Jonathan Rowson in Conversation, YouTube, https://youtu.be/YHUGuUhB1c4. Accessed: 2024-01-14. Published: 2023-03-06.2. David Ellerman makes principled arguments against the rental of…

  • Retrospective 2024-01

    This is a retrospective of the first week 2024 (2024-01-01–2024-01-07). I will write in both English and Swedish because I write for myself. Newborn thoughts are easier to express in my native language (Swedish). However, most of what I read is in English and then I will stick to English. For the most part, I…

  • Camille Litalien: Embodied Learning

    This is a transcript of Camille Litalien’s TEDx talk Embodied Learning at TEDxUSU Dec 8, 2017: Everything substantial I have ever learned I learned through being in my body. I am a dancer… When I dance I recover the ability for my mind to inhabit my whole body. All my senses become active, spontaneously responding…