Ideas and tools

Short explainers of ideas and tools for thinking, learning and working well, from Edaith's past newsletters.

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The self-other gap

The difference between how you judge your own abilities and how others view them.

27 September 2026
Normalising productive struggle

Enabling productive difficulty for problem solving culture, innovation and performance.

17 December 2025
Biliteracy in the digital age

Abilities to effectively read both digital and print material.

16 November 2025
Driver diagram

The driver diagram is a strategic planning and project management tool to map and compare strategies for achieving a goal.

15 October 2025
Automate your expense tracking with AI

Two methods to extract data from receipts and invoices automatically, eliminating hours of manual data entry.

10 September 2025
Attribution theory

Attribution explains how we interpret our success or failures, influencing our thinking, feelings and behaviours towards learning and skills development.

1 August 2025
The Einstellung effect

Our existing knowledge or points of view can unconsciously stop us from recognising more creative ways of solving a problem or perceiving a situation.

3 July 2025
1-2-4-All

1-2-4-All is a structured group idea generation method to increase engagement and the breadth of ideas, suggestions or feedback.

5 June 2025
AI skill sets

Whether we are driving AI development, or utilising AI powered solutions, transversal skills will help us determine and orchestrate the most beneficial uses.

1 May 2025
Self-handicapping

Unconsciously creating circumstances that hinder our performance to protect our self-esteem.

3 April 2025
Analogical reasoning

Utilise solutions applied to past problems or problems solved in a different context.

6 March 2025
Can AI systems reason?

How future AI could overcome lack of reliability

26 February 2025

The Essential Skills Framework: cognitive skills, intra- and interpersonal skills, technology skills and transformative skills

Skills for adaptability and the Essential Skills Framework