Why Positivity is So Essential in the Workplace
8 Pieces of Professional Advice I Didn't Want But Definitely Needed
The secret of self-control
In the late nineteen-sixties, Carolyn Weisz, a four-year-old with long brown hair, was invited into a “game room” at the Bing Nursery School, on the campus of Stanford University. The room was little more than a large closet, containing a desk and a chair. Carolyn was asked to sit down in the chair and pick a treat from a tray of marshmallows, cookies, and pretzel sticks. Carolyn chose the marshmallow. Although Carolyn has no direct memory of the experiment, and the scientists would not release any information about the subjects, she strongly suspects that she was able to delay gratification. Footage of these experiments, which were conducted over several years, is poignant, as the kids struggle to delay gratification for just a little bit longer. Most of the children were like Craig. The initial goal of the experiment was to identify the mental processes that allowed some people to delay gratification while others simply surrendered. Mischel was born in Vienna, in 1930.
Productivity: 8 Things You Should Not Do Every Day
If you get decent value from making to-do lists, you'll get huge returns--in productivity, in improved relationships, and in your personal well-being--from adding these items to your not to-do list: Every day, make the commitment not to: 1. Check my phone while I'm talking to someone. You've done it. Maybe you didn't even say, "Wait." Want to stand out? Stop checking your phone. Other people? And they care. 2. The easiest way to be the smartest person in the room is to be the person who pays the most attention to the room. You'll be amazed by what you can learn, both about the topic of the meeting and about the people in the meeting if you stop multitasking and start paying close attention. It's easy, because you'll be the only one trying. And you'll be the only one succeeding on multiple levels. 3. Trust me: The inhabitants of planet Kardashian are okay without you. But your family, your friends, your employees--all the people that really matter to you--are not. 4. They can wait. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Dont Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort
I hear it all the time from people. “I’m passionate about it.” “I’m not going to quit, It’s my passion”. Or I hear it as advice to students and others “Follow your passion”. What a bunch of BS. Why ? Think about all the things you have been passionate about in your life. If you really want to know where you destiny lies, look at where you apply your time. Time is the most valuable asset you don’t own. Let me make this as clear as possible 1. 2. 3. 4. Don’t follow your passions, follow your effort.
Don’t be the hardest worker in your job or in your job hunt
If you work the most hours you look the most desperate. You shouldn’t look lazy, but don’t be the hardest worker. After all, why do you need to work so much harder than the next person? Are you not as smart? The fact that the hardest worker is not necessarily the most successful rears its head before work even starts: A study conducted by Alan Krueger, professor of economics at Princeton University, shows that when it comes to workplace success, it doesn’t matter if you get in to an Ivy League school, it matters if you apply. Nonstop work offers diminishing returns after graduation as well. Don’t tell yourself that you work nonstop because you love your work: If you really loved your work, you’d take a break so you don’t mess it up. Ironically, moments that elevate your level of success at work often require time away from work. If you can’t stop working, you might be in for some bad news: Workaholism. But some people purposely create imbalance.
Peter Pronovost’s checklists better intensive care
The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal. Now survival is commonplace, and a large part of the credit goes to the irreplaceable component of medicine known as intensive care. It’s an opaque term. The difficulties of life support are considerable. But the emergency technicians continued CPR anyway. After six hours, her core temperature reached 98.6 degrees. First, her pupils started to react to light. What makes her recovery astounding isn’t just the idea that someone could come back from two hours in a state that would once have been considered death. For every drowned and pulseless child rescued by intensive care, there are many more who don’t make it—and not just because their bodies are too far gone.
What Stress Actually Does to You and What You Can Do About It
When I get stressed at work, it is usually because I'm pushing myself too hard to get something complicated done or dealing with a breakdown in some bureaucratic process somewhere. I usually walk away from it for a few hours or the afternoon and do something less time-critical that typically involves getting my hands dirty with hardware. Not sure why I find working with hardware to be relaxing, but it is for me - it's logical, predictable and usually not time-critical. I always have these low-stress filler activities available for this purpose. Usually, when I have an abnormally stressful week, I'll take a half day or full day off, or I'll work from home at a slower pace. At home, I'll listen to XM radio's Symphony Hall channel. One of the most stressful things I encounter is indecision - so I really try to make good decisions quickly, but not rashly to minimize the stress involved.
The 4-Letter Word That Everybody’s Talking About - Head Count
Denver — Here at this giant gathering of admissions officers and high-school counselors, I keep hearing the same word over and over. People have mentioned it during sessions, uttered it over coffee, and probed its meaning in conversations. The word is “grit.” It’s as good a word as any for the determination that many educators now associate with student success. Grit, as described by some researchers, is the habit of overcoming challenges, of learning from mistakes instead of being defeated by them. One administrator described it as “that fire in the belly.” It’s long been said that test scores and grade-point averages don’t tell you the whole story about an applicant, but these days there’s growing interest in ways of measuring—and improving—student’s “noncognitive” skills, as speakers here at the National Association for College Admission Counseling’s annual meeting attested. After all, we’re learning more and more about why students succeed or fail. In short, Ms. Ms. Return to Top
3 Ways to Avoid Decision Quicksand
