And what about employers? What do they want? According to national surveys, they want to hire 22-year-olds who can write coherently, think creatively and analyze quantitative data, and they're perfectly happy to hire English or biology majors.

Technology has played a major role in the way this generations works. Major efficiencies in communication, workflow and processing have reduced the need for "hard work," leaving the daily grind for the robots and freeing up Millennials to focus on tasks we're not yet able to automate, like writing the next hit song, being the star of the new reality show, starting up an innovative company, launching political debates on YouTube and announcing what you had for lunch on Twitter.

Here is a very interesting article on the "dark side" of Google searches.

The research, published online Thursday in the journal Science, found that students who read a passage, then took a test asking them to recall what they had read, retained about 50 percent more of the information a week later than students who used two other methods.

"Researchers say the lure of these technologies, while it affects adults too, is particularly powerful for young people. The risk, they say, is that developing brains can become more easily habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks - and less able to sustain attention."

Download a free copy of this work in progress. It's a quick read with some great advice for singer/songwriters and, of course, rockstars!

Decades of research has found a strong correlation between good notes and good grades: the more detailed and accurate your notes, the better you do in school. That's partly because the act of taking notes forces you to pay closer attention. But what's more important, according to some researchers, is that good notes provide a record: most of the benefits from notes come not from taking them but from reviewing them, because no matter how closely we pay attention, we forget things soon after we leave class.

In recent years, cognitive scientists have shown that a few simple techniques can reliably improve what matters most: how much a student learns from studying.

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