By Neil Pasricha — 2019
There are times when quantity matters more than quality.
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Teacher and child psychologist Jean Gross shares her tips for helping children believe in themselves, and discusses how you can encourage them to be determined and to enjoy challenges.
As the Athletic Director and head coach of the Varsity Soccer team at Ryerson University, Dr. Joseph is often asked what skills he is searching for as a recruiter: Is it speed? Strength? Agility? In Dr.
Speaker: Amy Cuddy, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Author Topic: "Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges" (Little, Brown, 2015) Leadership Experts Speaker Series @ Rotman March 4, 2016
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Some of life’s biggest hurdles call for moments of sincerity and control. Too often, we approach these high-pressure moments with fear and execute with anxiety.
Carol Dweck researches “growth mindset”—the idea that we can grow our brain’s capacity to learn and to solve problems. In this talk, she describes two ways to think about a problem that’s slightly too hard for you to solve.
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You’ll See It When You Believe It demonstrates that through belief you can make your life anything you with it to be.
Resilience is the ability to face and handle life’s challenges, whether everyday disappointments or extraordinary disasters. While resilience is innate in the brain, over time we learn unhelpful patterns, which then become fixed in our neural circuitry.
These days it’s hard to count on the world outside. So, it’s vital to grow strengths inside like grit, gratitude, and compassion—the key to resilience, and to lasting well-being in a changing world. True resilience is much more than enduring terrible conditions.
Have you ever left a nerve-racking challenge and immediately wished for a do over? Maybe after a job interview, a performance, or a difficult conversation? The very moments that require us to be genuine and commanding can instead cause us to feel phony and powerless.
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