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Your attitude is the reason you’re poor

The Next Web

Is your attitude holding you back from success? Why your bad attitude is losing you money. Florida State University professor Roy F. Researcher Barbara Fredrickson, who I talked about earlier in this article, discovered the tipping point between negative and positive attitudes is a three-to-one ratio.

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How to stay optimistic but avoid toxic positivity

Fast Company Tech

Those with toxic positivity may also try to impose their attitudes on othersto the annoyance of those around them. Also avoid imposing your attitudes on others. In a study of over 70,000 people researchers from Boston University surveyed respondents about their optimism and compared it to their health data, over a 10 to 30 year period.

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Digital Storytelling to Access, Attract and Activate U.S. Donors

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Elizabeth Ngonzi , Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs and Former CEO of Afrika Tikkun USA. Shifting attitudes in the U.S. Please follow Ms. Ngonzi on Twitter and LinkedIn and register for her upcoming on March 24, Digital Storytelling to Access, Attract and Activate U.S. Worldwide competition.

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What the Vietnam War and the Stockdale Paradox Can Teach Us About How to Face 2022

The MatrixFiles

Jim Collins , the author of several of my favorite business books ( Built to Last and Good to Great ), got to know Admiral Stockdale at Stanford University many years ago. Keeping my team and my family focused on what we CAN control : our work, our attitudes, our routines.

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Tired of ‘Zoom University’? So is edtech

TechCrunch

The rise of “Zoom University” was only possible because edtech wasn’t ready to address the biggest opportunity of the past year: remote learning at scale. million in October to bring digital learning to college universities. Four of the companies that are gaining traction include Class , Engageli , Top Hat and InSpace.

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Afraid of AI taking your job? Make this mental change

Fast Company Tech

As University of Michigan Professor Ethan Kross explains , emotions are useful sources of information.When it comes to WAF, very often the information is that there is something coming in the future that you cant fully control and you want the outcome to turn out a certain way. What this is really about is living with uncertainty.

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The 5-star rating system is terrible for gig workers. Here’s a simple solution

Fast Company Tech

Botelho , Katherine DeCelles , Demetrius Humes, and Sora Jun , all academics at North American universities, had a hypothesis that by switching to a binary rating scale (think: thumbs up/thumbs down) these biases could be reduced. Less is known, however, about how to eradicate, or redress these biases, especially in the gig economy landscape.

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