Let's face it, most of us use our phone way too much, certainly much more than necessary. But trying to cut back on phone usage is difficult. That's why I was excited to see that creating a better relationship with your phone was the topic of this week's Pinkcast. Dan Pink's guest this week was … Continue reading How to Have a Healthier Relationship with Your Phone
A few years ago, I was in the habit of writing something every day in my online diary, using an app named My Wonderful Days. I still have the app on my iPhone, and as I scroll through my entries, it looks like I started using the app in December 2012, writing something down most … Continue reading A Simple, but Powerful, Bedtime Routine
"I'm giving you these comments because I have very high expectations and I know that you can reach them." In this Pinkcast, Dan looks at Daniel Coyle's book "The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups". In the book, Coyle highlights a large study of teachers giving feedback to students where it was found … Continue reading Better Feedback in Just 19 Words
Between Dan Pink, Dan Ariely, Adam Grant, and Seth Godin, I've usually got material for about five or six blog posts a month. Add in my Music Monday posts, and I've got 10 posts covered. That still leaves 20 or so ideas that I need to come up with each month, but it's nice when … Continue reading Creating a Book of Small Experiments
This post comes courtesy of Dan Pink and another one of his Pinkcasts. This week, Dan talks with Austin Kleon, author of the classic book, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative and his newest book, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad. One of … Continue reading Build Your Own Bliss Station
I mentioned the Greater Good web site in one of my previous posts, noting that it was my favorite new web site. Here's a little bit about Greater Good, from its web site: Through articles, videos, quizzes, and podcasts, we bridge the gap between scientific journals and people’s daily lives, particularly for parents, educators, business … Continue reading The Gratitude Quiz
It’s easy to take the important people in our lives for granted, but research suggests that if we experience and express gratitude for them, our relationships will be stronger and our lives will be happier (from the Greater Good in Action (GGIA) web site - my new favorite web site). Daniel Pink did a short … Continue reading What If?? Mental Subtraction of Positive Events
It's a question I've often wondered about, but I never seemed to be able to find a suitable answer: Can you make up for lost sleep? I'm sure at this point most of us are aware of how important sleep is for our health, both physical and mental. Ying-Hui Fu, a molecular biologist and geneticist … Continue reading Making Up for Lost (Sleeping) Time
A basic tenet of management is that you get the behavior that you reward. The problem is that many times there are unintended consequences associated with the behavior that you get, and it ends up undermining the ultimate objective the reward was meant to encourage. For example, I tell my students that I could guarantee … Continue reading You Get the Behavior You Reward
Imagine taking college courses titled, "Bruce Springsteen's Theology", "Demystifying the Hipster", "What if Harry Potter Is Real", "Simpsons and Philosophy", and "Calvin and Hobbes". That could potentially be the greatest semester of my life. And while there is no one college offering all of those courses, those are all real courses that have been offered … Continue reading Life Design Class
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