Repetition (doing the same thing repeatedly) is essential for learning and mastering new skills. Task repetition is a key to transforming short-term memories into long-term memories. Repetition is ...

How are we to make sense of composer Philip Glass’s musical minimalism? At his most accessible, his works have found their way into movies like “The Truman Show” and “The Hours.” Yet his more ...

Source: Gerd Altmann / Pixabay I’ve been mentoring people in public speaking for more than 30 years. The one piece of advice I have given all of them is this: “Rehearse! Rehearse! Rehearse!” I give ...

The common complaint with contemporary poetry is that it’s too complicated, and the effort one makes to understand it grossly outweighs the rewards. Given this supposition, attending a poetry reading ...

Stein’s string of roses has been often interpreted as an affirmation of reality over metaphor — a rose is a rose, and nothing more — but she also saw it as an intensifier, one that unfolded all the ...