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The Almond Trees are Growing

January 21, 2019 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 10 Comments

Happy New Year!!!!!

Don’t be so surprised. Because today is one of the four new years that exist in the Hebrew calendar. (The others are the first day of Nisan, right before Passover, which is the new year for kings and festivals; the first day of Elul, the new year for tithing; and the first of Tishrei, which we all know as Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.) Tu B’Shvat, today’s new year, is when the earliest blooming trees in the State of Israel begin their next fruit-bearing cycle.

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Just Because

It was the 27th. And, the 29th.

November 6, 2017 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 8 Comments

A few days ago (on 27 October), Teddy Roosevelt would have celebrated his 159^th birthday. OK, he wouldn’t have, since he’s been dead for 98 years. But, you get the idea.

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Tu Bshvat Higiya

February 4, 2015 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 4 Comments

Tu B'Shvat Infographic — http://media.aish.com/documents/TBSH(English).pdf

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Brain

Who do you believe?

July 22, 2014 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 2 Comments

Practice makes perfect. Yup, every one of us has heard that- probably a zillion times, too.

And, for decades that was the established fact. Way back in 1993, Drs. Ericsson, Krampe, and Tesch-Romer published their results: The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance. In that article, they declared that they could explain the difference between an elite performance and an amateur one by the amount of practice time involved. Not fully 100%, but 80%- which made this a pretty definitive study.

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