What Choice Do You Have?
I know someone who has a lot of trouble making choices. Every choice, from deciding what colour shirt to wear to choosing a career change, is a major undertaking. It’s painful to watch. Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices — and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about…
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Your Internal Conversation
Do you ever listen to your self-talk? That little voice inside your head that berates you or keeps gnawing at you – saying things like: “I can’t believe you just said that”, or “who do you think you are anyway?” Negative self-talk leads to a lowered self-worth. “To feel unworthy is to suffer.” In their…
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Why Smart People Do Stupid Things
The modern workplace is rife with functional stupidity. In this CBC Spark episode, Nora Young explores why stupidity gets rewarded at work. Listen to her speak to André Spicer who explains why “Smart people doing stupid things.” (click on the image below to hear the audio)
Satisfaction With Life Scale
The Satisfaction with Life Scale was developed to assess satisfaction with people’s lives as a whole. The scale does not assess satisfaction with specific life domains, such as health or finances, but allows subjects to integrate and weigh these domains in whatever way they choose. It takes only a few minutes to complete. Author: Ed…
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Motivation Monday
[ted id=618 lang=en] Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward.
Goals You Can Actually Reach (Really!)
One of the best things to do in order to change your life and career is to do things differently. Logically, you know life isn’t going to change if you’ve been doing the same things over and over, but expecting different results each time. In order for life to take a turn, you have to…
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FLOW, The Secret to Happiness
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced Me-High Chick-Sent-Me-High) is described as the world’s leading researcher on positive psychology and has contributed pioneering work to our understanding of happiness, creativity, human fulfillment and the notion of “flow” — a state of heightened focus and immersion in activities such as art, play and work. Csikszentmihalyi once said: “Repression is not the…
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