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1. What basic question has Lonsdale had for a very long time?

How can we speed up learning?

2. Why was Lonsdale successful in learning Chinese quite fast?

Because he applied his learning principles
3. Why is it important to be able to learn a new language fast?

Communicate to solve global problems, migration

4. What reasons does he give for his claim that you can learn any language in six months?

Humanity is capable of pushing borders

5. What does the comparison with drawing prove?

Everybody can learn drawing in five days if you are applying the right principles

6. Which two myths does he want to dispel?

You need talent to learn something, immersion itself does not work, you also need to make an effort.
7. What are the five principles of learning?

Relevant content for you, using tools, focus on meaning, physiological training psycho-physiological state: relaxed, confident, happy, not sad, worried or afraid

8. Which seven actions does he recommend?

Listen a lot

9. How much vocabulary do you need for daily conversation?

1000 words cover 85 percent of daily conversation, 3000 words cover 98 percent

Thomas Piketty, New thoughts on capital in the 21st century

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1. What does the formula r > g lead to?

Higher concentration of wealth

2. What other forces influence wealth distribution?

Economic, social, political forces

3. What is his data based on?

Paris School of Economics database

4. What is fact 1?

While income inequality was higher in Europe in 1900, it is a lot higher in the USA in 2010.
5. What are the reasons for fact 1?

Changing supply and demand for skills, unequal acces to skills in the US, globalization, rise of top management salaries in the US

6. What is fact 2?

Wealth inequality is always a lot higher than income inequality.

7. What is fact 3?

Wealth inequality is less extreme today, although total quantity of wealth relative to income has recovered from war shocks.

8. What factors explain wealth accumulation?

Dynamic-dynamastic reasons beyond life-cycle wealth accumulation, prestige and power display.
9. For most of mankind's history, r > g was true. Why?

In agricultural society, growth is 0 to 0.2, percent, while rate of return is traditionally 5 percent on land assets.

10. What factors influence(d) the balance between r and g??

Technology, war shocks, reconstruction, demographic growth

11. What has been the growth rate of top global wealth from 1987 to 2013?

6 percent

12. What measures does Piketty suggest for closing the gap between different groups?

Financial transparency, wealth tax, international transmission of bank information, global coordination on wealth taxation (plus expropritation, inflation, war)
Seth Godin, How to get ideas spread?

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1. What did Otto Rohwedder invent?

Sliced bread

2. Why wasn’t that invention sold for the first 15 years?

Nobody knew about it

3. What does Seth Godin mean when he says we are living in a century of idea diffusion?

People who can spread ideas, regardless of what they are, win.

4. What according to the speaker is at the heart of spreading ideas?

TV and mass media / TV industrial complex

5. What new product did Coke Japan come out with?

Water salad

6. What effect does too many choices and too little time have on the consumers?

People ignore stuff

7. What parable does Godin have for things being remarkable?

The purple elephant

8. What group of people should marketers be targeting?

Early adopters and innovators

9. What does the Japanese word ‘otaku` describe?

A kind of desire or obsession with something

10. What did an artist want to build in the middle of Soap Lake, Washington?

55-foot-tall lava lamp

Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work

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1. According to Jason Fried, where do people normally go when they really need to get something done?

One is kind of a place or a location or a room (porch, deck, kitchen)

Another one is a moving object (train, plane, car)

and a third is a time (early in the morning, late at night, weekends).

2. What happens when people go to work?

People go to work, and they're basically trading in their work day for a series of work moments. It's like the front door of the office is like a Cuisinart, and you walk in and your day is shredded to bits, and they don’t get meaningful work done’.

3. What do people need in order to really consider a problem carefully?

Long stretches of time

4. What does Fried compare work to?

Sleep

5. What do bosses and managers list as distractions?

Facebook, twitter, YouTube and other websites

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