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Chris Watson of Endor Learn & Develop challenges conventional wisdom in terms of the best way to develop people. In this 1 minute clip,he talks about Daniel Oppenheimer research with high school teachers (in Harvard Business Review) Oppenheimer asked them to reformat the handouts that they were giving to some of their classes. The regular handout would be formatted in something straightforward, such as Helvetica or Times New Roman. But half these classes were getting handouts that were formatted in something less straighforward, like Haettenschweiler, or Comic Sans italicized. Now, these are unappealing fonts, and they're difficult fonts to read. But at the end of the term students were given exams, and the students who'd been asked to read the more difficult fonts, had actually done better on their exams, in a variety of subjects. And the reason is, the difficult font had slowed them down, forced them to work a bit harder, to think a bit more about what they were reading, to interpret it ... and so they learned more.
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