{"quotes":[{"text":"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["evolutionary-psychology","human-behavior","human-nature","neurobiology","neuroscience","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-human-nature","primitive-urges","self-control","self-regulation","self-restraint"],"id":102210,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Study skills really aren't the point. Learning is about one's relationship with oneself and one's ability to exert the effort, self-control, and critical self-assessment necessary to achieve the best possible results--and about overcoming risk aversion, failure, distractions, and sheer laziness in pursuit of REAL achievement. This is self-regulated learning.","author":"Linda B. Nilson","tags":["learning","metcognition","self-reflection","self-regulation"],"id":360113,"author_id":"Linda+B.+Nilson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}