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What the Johari Window Can't Reach on Its Own
The Johari Window, developed by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in 1955, is a genuinely useful model - four quadrants mapping what is known and unknown to self and others - but it quietly assumes that the raw material of self-knowledge is already present, waiting to be organised. Feedback expands the Blind Spot. Disclosure shrinks the Hidden Area. The Open Area widens. The Unknown quadrant, however - the territory where neither you nor anyone else yet has access - receives
Creative Thinking in the AI Era: What Language and Creativity Teachers Can Do
by James Peng, the CEO of Turnitin0.com Teachers of language and creativity have always faced the same challenge in a new form: how to help learners produce work that is genuinely theirs. When a student copies from a classmate, the teacher can see it. When a student translates with a machine, the teacher can usually tell. Now, when a student asks an AI tool to generate an essay, a story, or a creative response, the work can arrive polished, fluent, and entirely outside the le
You Think in a Language You've Never Spoken
The possibility that thought precedes and shapes language - rather than the other way around - is one of the strangest and least comfortable ideas in cognitive science. Jerry Fodor, who formalized the Language of Thought Hypothesis (LOTH) in 1975, argued that before you ever open your mouth or reach for a word, your brain is already computing in a structured symbolic system he called "mentalese." This isn't poetry. It's a testable philosophical and empirical claim: that reaso
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