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But How Can I USE Emotional Intelligence?
by Susan Dunn, MA, Emotional Intelligence Coach
I'm sure you're hearing the term Emotional Intelligence. It's being talked about a lot these days. For most people there's an immediate "click". We recognize it as the missing piece! It's like that cartoon...
Emotional intelligence
by linda miller
Emotional intelligence involves knowing how to deal with people, who acquire different characters, without knowing how to deal with people who are, rigid aggressive, self centered or those who exhibits...
Leadership Studies Online
by Michael Bustamante
Online Leadership Studies Schools offer courses that give students the freedom to attend class anytime from wherever they choose. Programs in Online Leadership Studies prepare students who aspire to upper...
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Last year, Stanford University psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky decided to put the kindness-fulfillment connection to the test. She asked students to carry out five weekly "random acts of kindness" of their...
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The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment
In above video you will see kids participating in the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment. The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment must be the most astounding psychological study ever performed, or at any rate ranking right up there with some of the experiments done by Stanley Milgram.
Who would ever guess that a brief observation of a four-year old alone with a marshmallow would be an excellent predictor of college entrance exam scores — twice as good a predictor as IQ test scores? In one of the most amazing developmental studies ever conducted, Walter Michel of Stanford created a simple test of the ability of four year old children to control impulses and delay gratification.
Children were taken one at a time into a room with a one-way mirror. They were shown a marshmallow. The experimenter told them he had to leave and that they could have the marshmallow right then, but if they waited for the experimenter to return from an errand, they could have two marshmallows. One marshmallow was left on a table in front of them. Some children grabbed the available marshmallow within seconds of the experimenter leaving. Others waited up to twenty minutes for the experimenter to return.
In a follow-up study (Shoda, Mischel, & Peake, 1990), children were tested at 18 years of age and comparisons were made between the third of the children who grabbed the marshmallow (the "impulsive") and the third who delayed gratification in order to receive the enhanced reward ("impulse controlled").
The third of the children who were most impulsive at four years of age scored an average of 524 verbal and 528 math. The impulse controlled students who scored 610 verbal and 652 math! This astounding 210 point total score difference on the SAT was predicted on the basis of a single observation at four years of age! The 210 point difference is as large as the average differences between that of economically advantaged versus disadvantaged children and is larger than the difference between children from families with graduate degrees versus children whose parents did not finish high school!
At four years of age gobbling a marshmallow now v. waiting for two later is twice as good a predictor of later SAT scores than is IQ. Poor impulse control is also a better predictor of later delinquency than is IQ.
Obviously there's a strong correlation between IQ and impulse control. People who do well in life have lots of both, and vice versa for those who don't do well.
Sociologists have regaled us for years with their theories as to the causes of poverty: lack of education, structural causes, racism. But it seems that, at least where opportunity exists, the reason for differences in income and wealth is that the poor have high impulsivity.
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The Just Wait Teen Program
The teenagers of the Just Wait Teen™ program are exposed to the information and research concerning their Happiness, their Temperaments, their Talents, their Attributes, their Gifts and how to maintain long term relationships. The Just Wait Teen™ program is life enhancing program, not a substance rehabilitation program. Although its' objective is to give the teens tools and understandings to reach 21 years - substance free.
This Program was developed by the Just Wait Foundation a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation to prevent drug, alcohol, and tobacco problems among teenagers. The Foundation provides one-year scholarships (two semesters) at a Community College or $1000 award to teens that completes the 4 year Just Wait Teen™ Positive Youth Development Program, obtains a GED, or graduates from high school - alcohol, tobacco, and drug free. The Just Wait Foundation has arranged to use of 80 acres to raise fruit and vegetables to finance the scholarships
We offer free training for any person or group that wants to start this program in their community.
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Unlock the Key to a Career Change that Uses Your Genius!
Leanna Fredrich
Have you ever spent an entire day at work doing something where you really felt awesome? All day long you were busy doing things that made you feel powerful and energized.
That night you went to bed physically tired yet thinking, "I would love to wake up and do that all over again!" You have just experienced a day using your strengths. How would you like everyday to be like that? The key to finding a career or business that you will be happy and wildly successful in is to be clear on what your strengths are.
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When Personality Makes Drugs Ineffective In Depression (Medical News Today)
A study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics addresses the role of personality factors in moderating treatment response in depression. The temperament harm avoidance (HA)...
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All of us have strengths that make up who we are. Unfortunately, most of us do not know what our strengths are. We tend to overlook them because activities which use our strengths come so easily to us. Often we think that "everyone can do this." We can list off our weaknesses (at least in private) without a pause but when asked about strengths we say things like, "I am good with people or I am good at organization." What does that mean? Are you good with people one-on-one or are you best in groups? Do you like to organize projects, file cabinets or people?
What is a strength? A strength is an activity that gives you energy instead of draining it. You may be physically tired after a day of using your strengths but you will be thinking things like, "When can I do that again?" Many times people confuse their strengths with skills. A skill is something you are good at but may not be an activity that energizes you. In fact a skill can be a drain. I am quite skilled at keeping large numbers of children from killing each other at recess but it is an activity which drains me. Of coarse a skill may be a strength as well. It all depends how you FEEL when you are doing it.
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NJ Gov Off To A Strong Start; Some Say Too Strong (AP Via Yahoo! News)
There's not a lot that's small about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. He is a big man with a big personality and a big problem — namely, closing a nearly $11 billion deficit in a state whose residents...
Do You Reflect Your Personality In Games? (Adrenaline Vault)
Yes, I know a standard type opening from me, the Psychologist. We are presently conducting some research on Personality and RPG’s and all your lovely help would be most welcome. We are taking a...
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So let's not waste any more time. Let's find out what your strengths are! One of the best ways to do this is to categorize each activity you do during the day. Tasks are either energy draining, neutral, or energizing. Take out a piece of paper and divide it into three sections. Put Energizing Activities in one section, Neutral Activities in the next and Draining Activities in the third section. Now, write down your daily activities in the appropriate area. After a day or two of this look at your list and check for patterns. Perhaps you believe you are a "people person."
How do you like to interact with others?
Do you get more energy from groups?
Do you like to teach people?
Listen to people?
Lead people?
Keep track of your activities until you have clarity on the specifics of your strengths.
OK, now you have a list of your strengths but what do you do with them? The short answer is find ways to use them! Observe your day at work and find ways to maximize the time you are using your strengths. If you love to teach then let your boss know that you are available for that. Put it out there. You never know what will happen! Maximize your strengths outside of work as well. Often by doing this you will open up doors to opportunities to enter a career which will better use your strengths. When you are interviewing for a job let the interviewer know where your strengths lie. Ask questions to find out how much of your job will allow you to operate within your strengths.
Now for the question I hear most often when working with client's on strengths. "What do I do about my weaknesses?" Well, not much! You could work hard to improve your weaknesses and end up for the most part wasting your time. For example, I want people to like me and because of this I am terrible at confrontation. Over the years I have worked to improve this weakness. I have taken assertiveness training, read books on how to say what you need to say even though it is hard. After all that work I went from being terrible at confrontation to being bad at it. You see no matter how much time and effort I put into working on improving my weaknesses I will still be weak in those areas. In contrast, when I work on my strengths I have extraordinary results. Life is too short to spend much time working on our weaknesses! Instead get creative. Find people who have your weakness as a strength and outsource it. Barter... find someone who needs your strengths and you need theirs. If you must do tasks that drain you save them for the end of the day and clump them together so most of your time is spent on activities which energize you.
Living life in a way that maximizes your strengths is the key to having a passion-filled work and life. It is the way you can make the biggest impact during your time on this planet. In Marcus Buckingham's book "Now Discover Your Strengths" he lists three questions for you to ask yourself before you take that next job or start a new business.
1.Does "why the company exists" strengthen you?
2.Does "who you are going to be working with" strengthen you?
3.Does "what you are going to be spending most of your time doing" strengthen you? ( The answer to this question is the most important of the three questions.)
Find a way to maximize your strengths and I guarantee you will have more energy, excitement, passion and most of all you will be the genius you were meant to be!
Leanna Fredrich works with professional and executive women in the 2nd half of their careers who are burned out and don't know what to do next. She helps them "go from burned-out to fired up" by finding meaningful and passion-filled work. Are you serious about creating an amazing life? Take the FREE "How to Discover Your Passion-filled Work" eclass. For more information go to http://www.LeannaFredrich.com
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