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Carol Dweck on the Growth Mindset and Education
This is a Q&A with Stanford University’s Carol Dweck, renowned for her research into growth and fixed mindsets. Her research into growth mindsets has huge implications for education and parenting. As she described it: “We did the study six times because the results were so powerful: we wanted to make sure the results were real.” […]
Posted April 27, 2017 by in Education
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The Greatest: A Lesson in Optimism
This funny, amazing video shows a kid exercising optimism as he practices baseball.
Posted April 19, 2017 by in Life
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The Power of Yet
In this TED talk, renowned researcher Carol Dweck talks about the tyranny of now and the power of yet in education.
Posted April 11, 2017 by in Education , Life
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Optimism and Health
These slides summarize some fascinating research on the relationship between optimism and health. What better reasons could there be to exercise optimism than lower rehospitalization rates, less heart disease, and longer lives?
Posted February 2, 2017 by in Life
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How to Deal with Scary Things
Some good, sound life advice from Mister Rogers on how to deal with hearing about violence, especially for children. A good example of Exercising Optimism
Posted December 20, 2016 by in Family
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Focusing the Mind’s Eye
In this short video, George Kohlrieser talks about the importance of focusing our mind’s eye on the positive, and then helping others to do the same.
Posted December 13, 2016 by in Business , Life
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Illustrating Learned Optimism
This short video illustrates Martin Seligman´s concepts of learned helplessness and learned optimism, explores the different explanatory styles of optimism and pessimism, and the different outcomes. In order to Exercise Optimism, understanding the nuances between optimistic and pessimistic mindsets is essential. For more on optimism, see this article: http://www.6seconds.org/2016/08/11/exercise-optimism/.
Posted November 28, 2016 by in Life
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How to Make Stress Your Ally
Insightful and humorous, this TED talk reveals groundbreaking research on stress and our relationship to it. A wonderful reminder that emotions are data, and when we treat them as such, there are no negative emotions.
Posted October 25, 2016 by in Life
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Rating Your Success
In this short video, people rate themselves in terms of how successful they are – and then see what they have been rated by those who love them. Maybe we should think as optimistically about ourselves as our loved ones think about us.
Posted October 25, 2016 by in Life
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Blinded Man Focuses on Shared Humanity
The blind man speaking in this short video wonderfully represents both the power of exercising optimism and practicing empathy – worth a couple minutes!
Posted October 16, 2016 by in Life
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Thriving with Optimism Workshop
This two hour workshop breaks down the history of learned optimism research, ways to practice optimism and teach it to children, and why it’s a vital component of life success.
Posted June 21, 2016 by in Life
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Academic Research- Don’t Like What You See? Give It Time
These slides summarize recent academic research into positivity. Do older people tend toward a positive or negative bias? If you take a couple breaths before answering, would that change your answer? Answers to these and more can be found in the notes.
Posted May 22, 2016 by in Life
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