If we want children to thrive in our complicated world, we need to teach them how to think, says educator Brian Oshiro. And we can do it with 4 simple questions. This post is part of TED’s “How to Be a Better Human” series, each of which contains a piece of helpful...

Teaching them about spending and saving is good, but our lessons need to go beyond that, says financial planner Ellen Rogin. Every weekday for the month of January, TED Ideas is publishing a new post in a series called “How to Be a Better Human,” containing a...

Dear Parents, When I was growing up, my parents only taught me two things about money: 1. It doesn’t grow on trees 2. There’s not enough That was the extent of my “money education.” Because I often received a “no” when asking for the things I really wanted, I got...

Again and again, teachers, professors and anyone else in the teaching professions will tell you that IQ is not the only difference between their best and worst students. Increasingly, psychologists are finding that the one characteristic that is emerging as a...

Building resilience and grit varies person-to-person and is influenced by one’s culture. Still, the APA offers ten ways to build resilience that just about anyone can do. If you are not a social person, becoming more social, i.e., purposely connecting with others,...

Again and again, teachers, professors and anyone else in the teaching professions will tell you that IQ is not the only difference between their best and worst students. Increasingly, psychologists are finding that the one characteristic that is emerging as a...

Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn't the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains...

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.”Tony Robbins When I was a young girl, I would wake up some mornings in a bad mood and think, ”Oh, I wish I wouldn’t feel this bad…” I couldn’t...

When I first began working at home, I couldn’t believe I was getting away with such a racket. No one told me what to do or where to be! I could work in my bed, go to the grocery store in the middle of the day, and my clients were none the wiser. Even though I was a...

Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories -- and maybe, a way forward. Article and...