WHY FEEDBACK REIGNS SUPREME PSYCHOLOGY AND CHANGE Ever wonder what happened to the teacher who said you were a failure at what you now do for a living? What about the boss who noticed a really challenging task came easily for you? For me, feedback has always been a mixed bag between the useful uplifting variety and the gut wrenching give up worthy. At some point odds on whether or not I would succeed broke even. I guess leaving me with a neutral chance of success? Which sounds pretty hilarious. In terms of feedback, art school prepared me for adult life in ways I never could have imagined. And it did so kind of in a sneaky way. I was...
This week I host for a THESE THREE THINGS segment discussion, Co-Founder and Head of School at Millennium School in San Francisco, founder of Argonaut an online program to bring social-emotional learning to students virtually, recipient of the Ashoka Fellowship as a leading change maker in education, and author of Finding the Magic in Middle School, soon to be published in August 2022, CHRIS BALME. Chris shares his most valuable life lessons about surprise, the importance of groups, and kindness. Be wary of excessive planning and ready for surprise. David Whyte said so well in his line, "What you can plan is too small for you to live." Honest groups help us figure out who we are, whether we're 13 or 53....
This week I host for a THESE THREE THINGS segment discussion, Bay Area co-founder and COO of Be Courageous, founder of Chaos to Calm and mom and ambassador of sanity, wellbeing and calm JENNA HERMANS.Jenna shares her most valuable life lessons as a step-mom including building your own path, the importance of how you show up, and learning to listen.
You can always build your own path. You don't have to do things the way that they've always been done, or only the ways that you are familiar with.
How you show up is more meaningful than your title or position.
Listening is the better action over speaking.
Listen HERE, it's a good one.
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WHY SHORTCUTS GET YOU LOST PSYCHOLOGY AND DOING THE WORK New Yorkers love shortcuts. It’s a pride thing. If you grow up on Long Island and can identify every single service road shortcut along the northern state + southern state parkways and the LIE, that’s about as much respect as you can get. And yeah in tri state traffic, shortcuts are a necessity. Although of course it can be argued that the destination is the destination. Sometimes the shortcut is about not staying still more than it is about getting to a destination sooner. And this desire to not stay still is what I want to address today. May has been mental health awareness month. And that’s totally great. And...
Seinfeld fans out there may remember Kramer and Frank Costanza’s attempt at calm. Serenity now, serenity now. And yeah it worked for a minute. But establishing calm in the body is a daily practice. Because, as animals our evaluation of threat never ceases. And while our sympathetic nervous system comes to the rescue with a fight or flight response when our lives are in danger or we sense a real threat, sometimes we have a hard time powering down this hard wired pathway, depleting our capacity for stress overtime and making a state of calm harder and harder to achieve. When we are in danger, we initiate the fight or flight reaction pathway. This pathway, beginning in the brain and...
