1: Fledgling entrepreneur and future Panera Bread CEO Ron Shaich realized he had a problem: People don’t eat cookies for breakfast.

Ron was 26 and had just started the Cookie Jar in downtown Boston. The year was 1980.

“Every morning, I watched tens of thousands of potential customers pass me by without a glance,” he writes in his terrific book Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations.… continue reading

1: “We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience,” said the educational reformer John Dewey.

Our ability to think, to reflect, to “think about our thinking” is integral to our ability to learn.

The term used to describe our ability to be aware of our thinking is called metacognition. 

Which author Anne-Laure Le Cunff calls “the forgotten secret to success” in her book Tiny Experiments… continue reading