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The biggest sci-fi show of 2021 reveals the real science of predicting the future

“Maths is the best way we have of understanding the world around us.”

Psychohistory is “the destiny of the human race expressed in numbers.”

In Foundation, an Apple TV+ series loosely based on the books by Isaac Asimov, psychohistory is the use of mathematical models to predict what will happen in the future. Developed by mathematical genius Hari Seldon and imparted to his young apprentice Gaal Dornick, these complex calculations point to a dangerous new world: one where an empire falls leading to 30-thousand years of dark ages.

What might save them is acting now on these predictions.

At its core, sci-fi fascinates audiences by using complex scientific ideas to help us make sense of complex worlds — both fictional and real. Accordingly, the idea that we can use math to make predictions on a large scale has its roots in real-life mathematics.

Maths is the best way we have of understanding the world around us,” Kit Yates, a mathematical biologist at the University of Bath and author of The Math of Life and Death, tells Inverse. Yates is currently working on a book about using math to predict the future — but don’t call her work psychohistory.

Warning: Light spoilers for Foundation below.

Reel Science is an Inverse series that reveals the real (and fake) science behind your favorite movies and TV.

Is psychohistory real?

Psychohistory isn’t technically a real area of study — but it does resemble real-life applications of real-life mathematics and psychology.

“Building mathematical models is the best way we have to make predictions about what will happen in the future,” Yates says.

Math is also used to interpret, rather than predict, human behavior.

“I do create mathematical models of human psychology, but my goal is not to predict future behavior, but to simplify — reveal the essence of — human psychology,’ George Loewenstein, the Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, tells Inverse.

Mathematical models “don’t seek to capture human behavior in all its enormous complexity,” Loewenstein adds. He stresses “very few models could be used even to predict” the behavior of groups of people in particular situations, let alone the behavior of individuals.

Yates agrees — mathematical modeling works best on a larger scale. Even in Foundation, Hari’s mathematical models operate on the scale of empires, not human lives.

“Just as in Foundation, mathematical prediction works better when we try to predict what is going to happen at the population-level,” Yates says.

“Mathematical modeling is by no means a perfect framework. A model is only as good as the assumptions on which it rests.”

Using math to predict the future

While predicting the collapse of society might feel estranged from everyday life, you’ve likely already benefited from mathematical predictions.

For example, every time we look at the weather forecast on a smartphone, we’re relying on the power of mathematical models to predict the future.

“At a personal level, we need to know what the weather will be like this afternoon so we can decide whether or not to hang out the washing,” Yates says.

It’s also common to hear people trying to game the stock market or win the lottery using mathematical formulas and probabilities. In the stock market, people called “quants” spend their days generating algorithms to predict certain financial behavior and identify potential trading opportunities.

“Some people have successfully used mathematical models to predict not the stock market, but specific trends in specific sectors — which is all it takes to make money,” Loewenstein says.

Meanwhile, every time you purchase an item on Amazon, the site’s predictive modeling captures that data, using it to offer suggestions — predictions – about what you might like to purchase next.

Actuaries also use statistics to predict the likelihood of risks, while some police departments attempt to use predictive modeling to forecast crime (this type of modeling, however, is widely criticized).

“One of the biggest problems with making predictions is that they can change the future.”

Many of these mathematical models work only because they rely on certain assumptions about human behavior.

“One of the biggest problems with making predictions is that they can change the future – they can become self-defeating prophecies,” Yates says.

This concept is similar to one raised in Foundation. Hari argues exact predictions cannot be revealed to society at large, because if the world knew what was predicted, humans would alter their behavior (there’s more to this but that would be a major spoiler).

“For example, mathematical modeling at the start of the pandemic received criticism because it predicted hundreds of thousands of deaths – many of which didn’t come to pass,” Yates says.

“What people tend to forget in hindsight was that these were projections for what would happen if nothing was done to mitigate the spread of the disease,” he says. “In fact the predictions themselves acted as a wakeup call startling politicians into action, taking measures to save lives and turn the modeled predictions into self-defeating prophecies."

Loewenstein says only artificial intelligence (AI) could come close to predicting complex human behavior on that scale but “how the AI makes such predictions successfully won’t be comprehensible to humans.”

Can math predict the fall of nations?

In Foundation, we’re led to believe that Hari poses a threat to the empire because his predictions could lead to a loss of faith in the status quo. Hari’s apprentice, Gaal, meanwhile, is somewhat skeptical of Hari’s grand predictions.

Like Gaal, many real-life mathematicians are skeptical of using math to predict the course of nations.

“I do think social and behavioral scientists have some profound insights into when and why civilizations rise and fall, and these insights could be used to predict the future success of economies and even of the global economy,” Loewenstein says.

But he also adds, “few of these insightful and profound analyses make much, if any, use of math.”

Yates agrees, saying that “there are so many variables that feed into a process like the rise or fall of an empire, that predicting anything with any certainty is difficult.

Societal collapse hinges on several factors rooted in complex human behavior. Take the fall of Rome, for example. Historians are still debating what, exactly, caused the collapse of this powerful empire.

“That’s not to say that making predictions about large systems with many variables is impossible,” Yates argues.

It’s perhaps less controversial to use math to predict the fall of a nation than to ensure its survival. Today, mathematicians today are using algorithms to prevent gerrymandering — a process where politicians redraw congressional maps to favor certain voters at the expense of others.

Making math cool again

Recent shows like Foundation and movies like The Man Who Knew Infinity have featured younger and prominent characters of color in leading roles, countering the historical past of mathematics as a bastion of older white men. These kinds of media could make mathematics more accessible to a wider audience.

“I think there is a trope that portrays mathematicians on TV as quirky, eccentric, or unhinged,” Yates says.

Foundation both reinforces and challenges these tropes. Hari’s mathematical skills make him an outcast in the eyes of the empire — a threat to be eliminated.

But when Gaal counts numerical patterns under her breath to calm herself down, her companion largely accepts her explanation, rather than mocking her — a positive step forward in representation for math geeks everywhere. Similarly, the characters toss around phrases like “radical integers” and “proofs” in routine conversations.

These small details can help reinforce the idea that math is an everyday part of our world and that mathematicians are relatable people.

“I’m always at pains to point out that mathematicians are just normal people,” Yates says. “You don’t have to be different or an outcast to be a mathematician.”

Foundation is streaming now on Apple TV+.

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Content: About 50 University of Michigan community members gathered at the Institute for Social Research Monday evening for a research presentation from Michele Gelfand, Stanford University psychology professor, as a part of the Research Center for Group Dynamics fall seminar series, “Psychological Diversity across the Globe.” Gelfand’s presentation focused on how social norms impact countries’ reactions to major threats including political conflict and natural disasters.

In an interview with The Michigan Daily, Shinobu Kitayama, U-M psychology professor and director of the Culture & Cognition Program, said the seminar aims to explore non-Eurocentric perspectives on psychology to help combat cultural bias.

“If you have only one perspective then that’s become the background of your thinking,” Kitayama said. “But if you, for example, look at Asian cultures, they get things done in very different ways and they also highlight very different assumptions. Once you begin to understand those different cultures, you may then question your own practices and your own customs and assumptions.”

Gelfand opened her presentation by defining social norms and explaining how they impact behavior.

“Humans develop rules to regulate our behavior,” Gelfand said. “Those rules we can call social norms. Sometimes they’re very informal and unwritten. Sometimes they become essentially laws and codes. But really they’re extraordinarily important for us because they help us to coordinate and predict each other’s behavior at an unprecedented level.”

Gelfand delineated between “tight” and “loose” cultures, saying these categories enforce and rely on social norms in different ways. According to Gelfand, tight cultures, like those in Singapore, Japan and China, have strong social norms and penalize those who do not follow them, generally leading to more order and lower crime rates. Loose cultures, like those in Greece, Brazil and the U.S., tend to have weaker social norms that are more permissive of error, leading to higher tolerance levels, higher creativity and a higher adaptability to change.

According to Gelfand, countries that have had more threats to their stability throughout their history — whether it be natural disasters or continuous conflict — tend to have tighter cultures, while countries that have faced fewer threats tend to have looser cultures.

Gelfand explained that it is ideal for a country to strike a balance between tight and loose cultures.

“A lot of people ask which is better and we had this idea that maybe it’s neither,” Gelfand said. “Maybe it’s the extremes that are problematic.”

Gelfand also presented examples of real-world applications of how the tightness of a culture can impact the way that country reacts to new threats to its stability.

“We started looking at the first year of COVID-19 before there were vaccines with a sample of 57 countries,” Gelfand said. “There was a pretty hefty correlation with loose groups having about five times the cases in the first year as compared to tight groups.”

Following the seminar, LSA senior Grace Yaldoo told The Daily that attending the talk made her feel confident in her plans to conduct research in psychology in the future. She said she would encourage other students to come to research presentations to hear from experts about new findings in their respective fields.

“I think it’s really important for students to do these things just because it helps to see what the field is actually like,” Yaldoo said. “If you want to do research in the future, I would come to an event like this and see what the research is like.”

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In recent years, behavioral science has been going through a replication crisis. Research results, some widely cited and some even applied to real-world problems, couldn’t be replicated when other researchers tried the same experiments. Sometimes, the failure to replicate is caused by differences in the experimental process or subject pool. In a smaller number of cases, findings have been discredited due to manipulated statistics or fabricated data. Ironically, a prominent dishonesty researcher has been accused of fraud.

Despite growing doubt in whether we should be using behavioral science findings in business and government, there is one body of work has endured for four decades and seems more applicable today than ever. Robert Cialdini’s seminal book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion was published 40 years ago and remains a bestseller today.

Except for Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends and Influence People, no business book has endured as well as Influence. The book has sold seven million copies and has been translated into 44 languages. The latest edition weight in at a whopping 592 pages and 2.31 pounds. Even today, the book consistently ranks in the top 1,000 at Amazon, not in specific category but among all books sold there.

Cialdini’s principles have become common parlance in business. Many marketers who use the term “social proof” don’t realize it was coined by Cialdini in 1984. Influence has been endorsed by luminaries ranging from Warren Buffet and the late Charlie Munger to Gwyneth Paltrow and Guy Kawasaki.

What Are Cialdini’s Principles of Influence?

Cialdini’s Principles of Influence, sometimes called Principles of Persuasion, are, very briefly:

  1. Reciprocity: People tend to give back to others when they have received something first.
  2. Scarcity: People want things more when those things are scarce or limited.
  3. Authority: People pay attention to those who know more about a topic, like experts and celebrities, when making decisions.
  4. Consistency: People try to be consistent with past decisions and statements.
  5. Liking: People are more influenced by those they like, including those with whom they have something in common.
  6. Social Proof: People look to others for cues as to what they should do.
  7. Unity: A stronger form of Liking that goes beyond shared attributes and is based on shared identity - family members, teammates, and members of any group that the individual identifies strongly with.

In this short video, Cialdini himself describes each principle briefly:

Why Have Cialdini’s Principles Endured?

A big reason many behavioral science findings either don’t replicate or turn into useful real-world tools is that they tend to be lab studies, often conducted with students as subjects. If your results are based on 47 MIT sophomore psychology students, they may not tell you much about the behavioral tendencies of a broad swath of humanity. They may not even replicate at UCLA or Oxford.

Cialdini’s ideas are robust because he began not in a lab but in the real world. He spent three years going “undercover” and training at organizations he knew were effective persuaders: used car dealers, telemarketing firms, and fundraisers. These businesses had mastered the art of getting people to say “yes,” and the only way to learn their methods was to join them and go through their training.

It’s worth noting the level of sacrifice involved in taking years away from conventional research and publishing papers for an up-and-coming professor. But, sometimes great sacrifice yields great rewards.

By observing the techniques proven to work not in a lab but with real people spending real money, Cialdini was able to distill his six principles of influence, later expanded to seven. Further experimentation, often outside the lab and in environments like shopping malls and hotels, added more data to support Cialdini’s theories.

Countless Commercial Replications

Academic replication is fine, but the real test for a behavioral science finding is whether it can be applied across a range of real-world situations. In the forty years since Influence released, these principles have been used time and time again in every commercial context. When the travel site tells you there are “only two rooms left” and “23 people booked this hotel in the last 48 hours,” they are using scarcity and social proof. When the salesperson mentions that you are both fans of the same team or both dog owners, that’s liking. When you buy Lebron James basketball shoes or a book endorsed by an author you respect, that’s authority.

Businesses use the principles because they work, as shown by both experience and extensive testing.

Do Cialdini’s Principles Always Work?

These principles are so basic and ubiquitous one might expect that they will always increase compliance, i.e., boost the chance that the person will take the action you want. These mental shortcuts are reliably effective, but don’t work every time in every situation.

For example, digital marketing experts say that adding social proof to a landing page that previously lacked it will boost the page’s conversion rate nine times out of ten. But sometimes, it will have no effect or even reduce conversion.

What’s going on? There are lots of reasons why social proof might not work. Perhaps the product is so well known that there’s no need for social proof. Would hearing that a hundred million Americans drink Coca Cola make you more likely to buy some? Probably not.

Other types of products, like luxury or artisanal items, might actually be hurt by social proof. If you are buying an Italian supercar or a costly handbag that was hand-crafted by skilled artisans, the last thing you want to see is “thousands sold.” You prefer to imagine that yours is unique, and you’ll never see anyone with the same thing.

How to Apply Cialdini’s Principles

Sometimes, you don’t have to think too hard or worry about testing the effects of using a principle like authority. If a famous expert has declared your product to be amazing, put that endorsement where everyone will see it. There’s almost zero chance it won’t help sales.

Normally, though, the best way to use these powerful principles is to formulate a hypothesis you can test. If possible, use an A/B or multivariate test to see if, for example, “Over a million sold,” increases sales. There are, of course, endless variations you can try. For example, instead of touting the number of units sold, telling people the product is preferred by more than 50,000 businesses might be more persuasive. If you have many testimonials, test various combinations to see which work best.

The point in the customer journey makes a difference, too. If customers are unfamiliar with the product or the company, using authority will likely increase the number who move forward. If someone is ready to buy, on the other hand, scarcity may be the nudge they need to act.

Beyond Cialdini’s Principles

Beyond Cialdini's principles, other strategies based on behavioral science can change customer behavior. Dozens of cognitive biases can be applied in specific situations. Even factors like colors and type fonts can affect customer behavior. (Hint: small and difficult to read fonts usually reduce compliance.) Neuromarketing uses techniques like eye-tracking and brain imaging to uncover subconscious reactions that traditional methods miss.

Despite the myriad ways marketers can use behavioral science and neuroscience to improve results, even after four decades Robert Cialdini’s Principles of Influence are the best place to start. They are timeless and have been proven to be effective.

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SA may face a crisis in education, but there is no crisis of ideas and potential

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Smart and ambitious South Africans are being let down by the education system and increasingly it is falling on post-matric educators, including business schools, to bridge the gap.

With matric exams done and dusted, we can look forward to stories of exceptionalism hitting our inboxes soon. Take for example, twins Divano and Diego Blankenberg, raised by a single mother in Atlantis in the Western Cape, who matriculated at the end of 2021 with nine distinctions between them, making them the first members of their family ever to attend university.

Without taking away from this extraordinary achievement, these good news stories mask a bleaker picture of a vastly unequal schooling system where more than 25% of learners drop out of school before they even reach matric.

The truth is, right now our schools don’t necessarily teach the right stuff. And they don’t teach it well enough; even the best teachers are constrained by a lack of resources and top-down decision-making. From apartheid-era educational inequalities, into the democratic era, education is in crisis and increasingly, smart and ambitious young South Africans are being left behind in a rapidly changing world.

The ripple effects of inadequate schooling are making themselves felt across the economy. Those students who do make it into tertiary education are often unable to present plausible arguments to support and sell their ideas, their writing ability can be poor and unstructured, and their confidence is generally rock bottom.

Too many fail to even graduate. In short, while many South Africans are making tremendous strides and building businesses to end generations of poverty, the odds are very often stacked against their success.

Changing the odds starts with building a scaffold of support

Changing these odds is critical to unlocking economic growth and really, this calls for a whole new approach to teaching and learning. Post-matric institutions — including business schools — have an important role to play here in driving change. While business schools are mostly associated with the MBA — which is a master’s level degree — the sheer scale of need in South Africa makes it imperative to pay attention to all levels of learning, and more than that, to provide a pathway to allow students who may lack the right foundations to achieve an MBA should they want to.

In an education system full of holes, we need to think about how we can construct a scaffold to provide smart, ambitious and capable people — whether they are coming in at a junior level or have been working for many years — something to hold on to, to keep them learning and growing.

This could take the form of providing templates for initial assignments, rather than just allowing students to tackle these from scratch, or it could be guidance from a writing centre, or a form of coaching and mentorship designed to build people’s confidence, which may have been eroded over the years.

Thus, it’s not just about what we teach but how we teach it. We might have the best curriculum in the world, but if we don’t create the right learning container, learning — for the most part — may not be as effective. A structure that guides students and validates their own experiences could help to ensure that the seeds of their ideas have a safe place in which to germinate and grow into purposeful careers and innovative and well-run businesses that solve real problems in the world and generate employment sustainably.

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Opening the door to vulnerability

A structured learning process that meets people where they are at, can also create the space for students to let their guard down a bit. There is so much pressure on us to appear smart and tough that it can be hard to admit you don’t have all the answers; but keeping up appearances is incredibly draining — and it takes away your power.

Author Salman Rushdie said “those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to re-tell it, re-think it, deconstruct it, joke about it and change it as times change — truly are powerless because they cannot think new thoughts.”

Business schools must work towards giving students back their power. A lack of agency can be like having your ankles tied together as you try to run the race. And there is no quick way back to it, it can only start with the slow and painstaking work on self. Herein lies vulnerability — lots of it! You need to be vulnerable to be able to see when you are wrong and then actually sit back and do things differently, because suddenly your blinkers have been taken off, and you can see the periphery that you might never have seen before.

This can be particularly powerful in a group setting. Sociocultural theory asserts that learning is an essentially social process in which the support of co-workers, family members and the wider society and culture all play a role.

As adults, this is really important, and it’s one of the reasons that executive development is such a thriving industry worldwide, because corporates recognise that sending a cohort of employees on a learning journey together can potentially reap more benefits than sending just one person on their own.

Aligning theory with practice

The third key ingredient for a new approach to learning is to make sure that the theory being taught is closely aligned with practice. What is the point of coming out of business school and not having the skills that you need to operate in the work environment?

We need to ensure that if someone is learning something about a change model, for example, they’re able to practise it in their workplace in real time, with real people doing their real jobs with all of the complexities that come with a daily work grind

And then they are asked to write it up and share their story of what they learnt back in the classroom. Story-telling is another powerful feature of our learning scaffold. Hearing how someone like you made it to the top and what mistakes they made along the way is much more powerful than reading a chapter on strategy from a textbook.

None of this is rocket science. By taking a common-sense and human-centred approach to learning that values the innate potential of each learner and creates the space for them to expand their thinking, grow their confidence, and practise what they are learning, we can equip and enable people to achieve more than they dared think possible.

Of course, this is not the only solution to the education crisis we face in South Africa — it is just one part of a complex puzzle, but it is a part that has been shown to work and it could be scaled up. What we see is that as people gain skills and qualifications, moving up through business schools’ programmes, they gain confidence. They almost always then want to pay their learnings forward. It’s like people naturally want to share their insights and knowledge with their families, children, communities and, of course, in the workplace.

In a very real sense then, investing in one person can help to build a community of practice and learning that stretches far beyond the classroom. This is powerful, this is how change happens. DM

Linda Buckley is Head of Learning Experience and Executive Education Director at Henley Business School, Africa.

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Post written by Dr Nadia Millington, Senior Lecturer in Practice at LSE’s Department of Management.

Many business leaders are still grappling with the financial and human fallout of Covid, and understandably feel they don’t have the bandwidth to seek out innovative solutions in their businesses.

While conserving cash, cutting costs, driving efficiency and ensuring employee wellbeing should all be top priorities, innovation must not be neglected. In fact, focusing on innovation can be a source of great hope as we try to navigate safely out of the pandemic.

Discussions of hope in times of crisis are common across all Western philosophical traditions, but the term ‘hope’ is not usually discussed in regard to business innovation. The Standford encyclopedia of philosophy did a systematic review of the hope across past and contemporary philosophers and found some common threads. Hope is directed to future events; it leads to justified expectations and a desire for an outcome that makes life better in some way. Hope also promotes rational agency, that is, it’s not irrational optimism, but is based on the knowledge that achievement is possible.

Simply, hope can improve employee experiences at work by allowing them to envisage a better future and have the confidence that a ‘new normal’ is possible amidst the toughest of challenges.

So how then can innovation be a source of hope in crises?

From our experience observing a range of short-term innovation interventions within both large multinationals and social enterprises over the last 15 months, the greatest ‘hope uplift’ starts with the intentionality of the project. The best projects were developed around the most urgent or attractive opportunities and challenges based on the company’s expectations of the new normal beyond Covid. Companies that used this approach sought wide employee engagement to develop projects of true worth to the firm’s post-Covid future. One consulting firm that was particularly intentional about its project choice focused on 3 core themes: changing customer needs, digital adoption, and employee wellness. Employees were engaged and particularly committed as it provided an opportunity to refocus their energy on a brighter tomorrow.

In contrast, firms that simply chose to reimagine old projects, or focus on long-standing, complex and endemic issues, did not seem to have the same hope uplift. A case in point was a social enterprise that focused on innovating a new partnership model – a long-standing problem that had not been resolved by several prior attempts. Such a scattershot approach caused an already Covid-weary workforce to be less engaged in a project amid competing challenges.

A hope uplift is only possible when there is the chance of a beneficial outcome. Whilst there is no proven formula for innovation success, we found that employees had the greatest hope uplift when they expect that their efforts will potentially be rewarded by something new or a significant improvement in the workplace. Simply undertaking countless surveys about 'the future of work', or asking them to brainstorm solutions, was not sufficient, as consistently looking inwards for solutions put additional pressures on staff and stifled innovation. Without infusing external ideas, firms appeared to recycle less ambitious solutions and employee hopes atrophied over time.

In contrast, companies that gained the most hope uplift through their innovation projects tended to engage in ‘open innovation’ (OI), a term popularized by Henry Chesbrough. OI helps companies to leverage external sources of knowledge to solve problems in unique ways. Examples of OI include crowdsourcing, hackathons, lead users or open sourcing. We found that OI is particularly effective in achieving a hope uplift because it allows companies to conserve some of their internal resources to focus on business continuity and other critical tasks, while benefiting from the innovative solutions they’ve found by engaging with their external environment. Firms without prior OI experience were also able to benefit by using low cost OI partners, which complimented and energized internal teams without the need to overhaul the firm’s internal innovation process.

The final ingredient for hope uplift is belief. Employees need to believe that if they invest their time scoping the right project and seeking more novel solutions via OI, the result will be adopted or at least be considered. This is dependent on employees trusting that leaders will prioritize resources towards new solutions. To build this trust, leaders should be explicit about processes used to assess the value of solutions and allow more time to test ideas if staff are especially energized by them. We found that one of the biggest mistakes an organization can make is to sideline a project that employees initiated without clear communication or justification.

Whether we consciously address it in business or not, hope is an essential part of everyday life. There is no denying that Covid has led to significant social and economic fallout and, in doing so, made many employees disheartened about the future. But innovation – when done correctly – can counter this and create an uplift that leads to the renewed sense of optimism we so desperately need.

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Transitions in life are often marked by events such as holidays or the beginning of a month, which can provide motivation for change.

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The psychotherapy session I was conducting seemed like Groundhog Day.

I was sitting with my engineer client, let's call him John, again talking about how he struggled to communicate well with his wife.

He told me again about his tendency to linger on facts and data points when discussing issues in the marriage.

While his wife wanted John to focus on her emotion and on empathy, John was getting stuck on providing “suggestions” about how she should respond to her stress regarding work and her relationship with her family.

He told me about how the conversation really took a turn for the worse when he asked his wife if she had been going to her yoga class and exercising.

After all, he was positive the research showed those activities would help her feel better.

John’s heart was in the right place, but he was again replicating all the maladaptive communication patterns that we had talked about for the past year in therapy.

As we discussed his therapy homework, John apologized for rehashing all the same problematic behaviors.

“I’m sorry we’re talking about the same thing over and over again," he said. "I want to do better, I’m just having a hard time executing in the moment.”

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The next client on my books couldn’t have been more different than John, but the session still felt like Groundhog Day to me.

Julia was a 22-year-old marijuana user who dropped out of college two years ago. She didn’t have any advanced degrees like John, she hadn’t been in a long-term romantic relationship in months and she was almost entirely disinterested in data of any kind.

Julia was a free spirit for sure, yet she was stuck in what seemed like an endless cycle of emotional addiction to marijuana. She talked with passion about her desire to stop smoking every week in session and was convinced marijuana had robbed her of motivation and investment in her future, but she just could not stop using.

Here you have two completely different individuals who are struggling with a very similar process: how does a human being create lasting behavior change?

It doesn’t matter whether you are an engineer trying to learn how to communicate better with your spouse or a marijuana user trying to stop smoking, the reality of our human condition is that it is difficult to make changes that last over time.

Change is hard and can be messy at first. Many of us feel like we are living Groundhog Day over and over again and are stuck in patterns of behavior that are incredibly difficult to break.

For many, our failure to change behavior only leads to complacency and frustration over time. In order to disconnect from these negative cycles and to create lasting changes in behavior we must first understand the barriers that keep us from maintaining positive changes over time.

Fully understanding and anticipating your barriers and blocks to behavior change is the first step to creating the healthy life you want to live. While everyone has unique barriers to their own change, there are some common strategies we can implement that will ensure we proactively and intentionally break through barriers that are holding us back.

Address procrastination

Many times the biggest blocks to our change is procrastination. It’s not that we don’t have very real intentions to change or that we don’t even know the steps that would be involved in making the change, it’s simply that we avoid starting.

Think about this process in your own life. How many of us believe we should start exercising immediately? I think it’s safe to say that most people would agree that exercise clearly benefits physical and mental health and that it’s important that we all do it consistently.

Many of us even have a workout routine we would complete on our first trip to the gym, yet we never quite take the step to start.

This procrastination can be devastating to lasting behavior change, and it’s important that you figure out how to break through this barrier now.

One trick that helps many people stop procrastinating is to focus on the timing of when we decide to start.

Change always feels more natural and manageable when it is congruent with the narrative we are building about our life.

For instance, change seems more manageable and exciting around New Year’s Day doesn’t it?

That’s because the new year feels like a new chapter, and that is how we organize our life.

We tell ourselves a story about who we are and we see our life in stages and seasons.

When I was in high school, I saw myself differently than I did when I was a college student.

After college and in graduate school I began to think of myself as a professional and then a business owner.

These different stages of my life encouraged me to make changes that were consistent with my new identity.

As we organize these different chapters of our life, the reset associated with a new beginning often motivates us to change.

When you begin to plan out the changes you want to make, look for the built-in resets that you can easily identify as a result of the start of a different stage or chapter.

Start working out on a Monday because it’s the beginning of the week, rather than on a Thursday or a Friday.

Look for holidays that you can use as a reset that might indicate the beginning of a new season.

For instance, Memorial Day is near the beginning of summer; it might be a great time to start eating healthier or reworking your résumé. Labor Day is the beginning of fall for many people, and it might be a great reset that would allow you to set new goals for your business.

Don’t worry if you can’t find an impending holiday to plan your life around, it’s more about the meaning we attach to any given day we are going to use as a reset to jumpstart our change process.

We can actually just label days and create meaning around days that will allow us more motivation for change.

Try to use the first or last day of the month as motivation to start something new.

Is Sept. 22 just a Wednesday, or was it the first day of fall?

That’s an example of just how easy it is to use certain days as a reset for change.

The meaning you assign to any start date is either going to encourage or discourage you to actually follow through with the change.

Harness the power of your own laziness

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed the clever idea of harnessing the power of laziness to help people begin and follow through with a change process.

This strategy follows a fairly simple logic: as humans we want to be comfortable and avoid negative emotions like boredom, stress and pain.

In fact, most people avoid spending any extra effort and will instead prefer what the researchers called “default options.”

Default options are what we end up with if we do absolutely nothing.

The default option on my iPhone is the Safari web browser.

My tendency, and the tendency of most people that use iPhones, is to use Safari as their web browser.

Now let’s be clear, I do not use Safari because it’s the best option. No, no, no, that would mean I was actually being intentional.

I use Safari because it’s easy, it happens automatically and I don’t have to expend any extra effort.

Basically, I’m avoiding the added stress and drama of taking five minutes to pick the web browser that best fits my needs.

I know, it's strange, but I challenge you to think about your life and how often you use the default option to make decisions about your behavior.

How amazing would it be if Chick-fil-A decided to set the default option of a Chick-fil-A sandwich to include the fruit cup rather than the waffle fries.

Is it fair to say, as a group, we’re just too lazy to look beyond the default options and be intentional about the choices we make every day?

If we’re going to be proactive and intentional about making changes in our life, we can start by setting healthy defaults.

What website does your browser open up to automatically, a social media site or a news organization?

If one of your behavior-change goals includes being more informed about current events, make sure your default setting is consistent with your goals.

What is your default drink at dinner, a glass of wine or water?

If you want to make sure you drink less alcohol, make sure that your default beverage at dinner is water.

In short, we can leverage our own laziness to set ourselves up for success with behavior change.

Change within the context of relationships

It should come as no surprise that we all need healthy relationships in order to maintain our change over time.

Relationships are vitally important for a couple different reasons.

For starters, other people can provide much-needed accountability for us as we attempt to make and sustain changes.

The most basic behavioral principles demonstrate that the more a behavior costs us relationally, financially or physically, the less likely the behavior is to happen.

That’s why people stuck in addiction often wait until the cost of the addiction has become so severe that they can no longer persist in it.

We call that rock-bottom in the addictions treatment industry.

Rock-bottom often happens for most of us when the cost of the behavior has interpersonal consequences that outweigh the benefits of the behavior.

We need people in our life that are going to be willing to tell us the truth and who will express concern when we do not follow through with our stated goals for behavior change.

If you want to make positive changes that stick, find truth tellers that won’t hesitate to tell you the things you don’t want to hear.

Another reason relationships are so essential for getting unstuck is based on the principle of modeling.

Many times we only know what we’re capable of when we look around and see other people who are living the kind of life we want to live.

At the end of the day the most life-giving relationships that we can be a part of are the ones that inspire us to actually live in our calling.

That’s why people who are serious about change find groups of people that are living the change that they would like to see.

Think in terms of the alcoholic who is inspired by his AA sponsor who has spent 20 years sober or the business owner who connects with a mentor who inspires him to grow his business.

If you’re ready to get unstuck in your life, surround yourself with people who inspire you. Spend time around them and model their behavior.

Now that we've gathered some workable actions to create and maintain change in our own lives, let's help our friends above, John and Julia, by applying the strategies we just learned.

John may not show signs of procrastination or laziness, but he is absolutely leaning into his default options in his relationship with his wife and unable to take the step into healthy communication with her.

Since he is having difficulty "in the moment," perhaps he can utilize his wife's strengths in their relationship to hold him accountable when these issues arise.

For his homework, we decided that he needs to have an open and honest conversation with his wife about how his default options are to go to the research and data points, and he needs her support by holding him accountable if he back steps into his suggestion offering as a strategy to resolve an issue in their lives.

This opens up a line of communication surrounding his barriers and reminding his wife that while his heart is in the right place, his mind goes into default mode, and the hope is that they are going to help each other make changes within the context of their relationship.

For our friend Julia, who is a habitual marijuana smoker, we need to address all three strategies as well.

Julia has made the commitment to stop smoking, but she can't seem to find the desire to begin the process, is stuck in an emotional wheel navigated by laziness, and doesn't have a huge support system in her life rooting for her to take a step toward her goal to leave the marijuana behind.

We decided for Julia to pick any day of the week and attach meaning to it allowing her to begin her journey of not smoking.

Julia picked the following Monday and stated it was the beginning of her journey to Oz.

Next, she has this habit known to most as "wake and bake" as a default, so she decided she was going to alter it some by waking up and actually baking cookies, muffins or cupcakes instead.

The last item we checked off of her list in our session was finding a support group to attend, so she would be surrounded by other supportive people and find at least one person who she admired and could model her behavior after.

Change is hard and it can be messy and uncomfortable, but with the right tools and support it is not impossible.

Dr. Mike Ronsisvalle is a Licensed Psychologist and the President of LiveWell Behavioral Health, a psychological services agency that provides counseling to clients of all ages and addictions treatment to adolescents and adults. You can find him on the web at www.LiveWellbehavioralhealth.com and www.LiveWell-Coaching.com, or call 321-259-1662.

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Default behaviors, whether technological or personal (such as browser choice or daily routines), play a significant role in shaping our habits.

People are motivated by observing others who embody the changes they wish to make and are more likely to succeed in supportive communities.

Making lifestyle changes, such as quitting marijuana, can be challenging without strong internal motivation and external support.

Overcoming inertia and making changes is difficult, but with appropriate resources and encouragement, it is achievable.

Focus and prioritization are key to accomplishing goals, especially when time and resources are limited.

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Gravity: How To Cultivate Focus And Execute Better

Feeling overwhelmed and unproductive? You're not alone. Read on and learn how to fight "workplace gravity" and boost team focus.

Focus is mission-critical, but most companies don’t lower the gravitational forces pulling on attention.

As a result, large companies with too much mass have a hard time navigating and adapting to the quickly changing organic growth landscape:

  • Google’s algorithm updates have struck hard and left casualties.
  • Even small rank changes in top positions have an outsized impact.
  • Consumer behavior on the internet is messy and hard to track
  • Teams are shrinking: 80,000 tech workers have been laid off in 2024 so far.1
  • Marketing budgets were slashed on average by 10 to 20% over the last two years and only slowly started to recover.2
  • Tech workers spend two out of five days per week on meetings and email.3 Only 43% of the time is spent on actual tasks.

No platform has as many changes of requirements. Over the last 3 years, Google launched 8 Core, 19 major and 75-150 minor updates. The company mentions thousands of improvements every year.

As individuals, we live in a distracted world, where one of the most important skills is managing attention. How did we think teams are any different?

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No Win Without Focus

Sir Isaac Newton realized that the sun’s gravity causes planets to orbit it in an elliptical path. Gravity in the workplace is a distraction from the focus of individuals and teams:

  • Meetings.
  • Fire drills.
  • Red tape.
  • Strategy pivots.
  • Too many goals.
  • Alignment overhead.
  • Too many cooks in the kitchen.
  • Procurement and legal rabbit holes.
  • Non-critical emails and Slack messages.

The larger a company gets, the stronger its gravity.

Taken to an extreme, it takes companies forever to launch even a single feature, and they fall behind the competition.

For individuals, gravity is even more consequential: Scattered attention means getting nothing done, having no impact, and likely being fired. Worse, people get exhausted and burned out in the process.

“Tranquility comes from doing less,” (Ryan Holiday), but a lot of teams execute scatter-brained like a teenager multitasking between Netflix, TikTok, and texting.

Individual and team focus are connected at the hip. When a team is distracted, it transfers to individuals. Two-thirds of people struggle to find the energy to do their job.4

Whenever I get overwhelmed, my brain tells me to open my email inbox and look for a quick dopamine hit. But finding quick tasks and busy work is no achievement.

Real impact comes from working through tedious, complex problems.

We cannot erase gravity, but we can do five things better:

  1. Communication.
  2. Prioritization.
  3. Strategy.
  4. Red Tape.
  5. Meetings.

Better Communication

Unclear communication is one of the biggest attention drainers. We waste a lot of time deciphering what other people mean.

At Shopify, we had a very high bar for what internal communications went out to the Growth org and how they would be framed.

It’s easy to @ your whole team on Slack, but what people really need is key information:

  • What’s going on?
  • How is it relevant to me?
  • What do I need to know/do?

Lazy communication has massive speed cost. In the book “Smart Brevity,” the authors provide a simple framework for writing clear statements:

  1. Start with a muscular tease that grabs attention with six or fewer strong words.
  2. Explain what recipients need to know in the first sentence.
  3. Explain why it matters.
  4. Offer a choice to go deeper by providing more optional context.

Most important: Think about one thing you want people to remember – not more. Nobody has time to read a Slack novel.

Better Prioritization

At PayPal, Peter Thiel established a culture of hardcore focus. He would only discuss their No. 1 priority with managers and hold them accountable for just their one main contribution to the company.

Focus is a forcing function to separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to what to spend time on.

No one could be a better example of hardcore prioritization than engineers. If you want to get something on the ENG roadmap, something else has to give.

An effective roadmap operating system has only a few lines of code:

  • What’s the goal?
  • What are the top 3 things that get us there?
  • For those three things, what do we need in terms of people, assets, time, support from other teams, and tools?
  • For those three things, who does what, by when?
  • Defend yourself and your team as much as possible from anything else.

You never look back at your time at a company and say, “Man, my fourth, fifth, and sixth priority back then really hit home,” but you might remember the impact of priorities one, two, and three.

Cal Newport’s new book, “Slow Productivity,” mentions doing less as one of the top ways to do better work.

But the advice I like the most is doubling the time you think a project takes.

Doubling automatically trims your roadmap by probably 50% but makes it more likely that you deliver on time and deliver well.

A big part of moving ourselves into an overcommitment corner is underestimating how long projects take (I think I wrote the last sentence at least as much for myself as for you).

Better Strategies

Poor strategies are hard to follow and confuse the team.

In my experience, managers want to get fancy, but they miss the most important point: A good strategy means doing something different from the competition.

Instead of outworking contenders, you want to do something that’s unique and leans to your competitive advantage.

Pairing differentiation with prioritization, your three most important projects should underline how you achieve the same goal in a different way as your competitors.

For example, instead of writing 100 blog articles, can you build a programmatic play or a list of tools? Or can you leverage contributors who write the content instead of a large in-house team?

I also found that most strategies simply aren’t clear. A simple test for clarity is to up or downsize the surface you have to explain it: Can you express your strategy in one paragraph (TL;DR), one page (high-level), and one doc (in-depth)?

Less Red Tape

Red tape in the form of excessive bureaucracy kills execution. I’ve seen many companies that take many weeks and endless alignment meetings before being able to sign up for a simple SaaS tool.

Procurement and legal teams can slow companies down and frustrate teams beyond means.

The key to having speed and a good evaluation process is clear guidelines when legal or procurement steps in.

With one of my former clients, the fastest-growing fintech startup in history, we sat down with the legal team and got a full download on guardrails. What can we say and what not? When do we have to get legal approval, and when can we move forward without it?

This is a task for the team manager or org leader. While tedious, the good news is that once the borders have been established, teams can move forward faster and focus on execution.

Fewer Meetings

Tobi Lütke, founder and CEO of Shopify, called meetings a “bug.” The leadership team regularly deployed the “Chaos Monkey,” a script that deletes all recurring meetings with more than two participants. Other companies set guardrails around time. Calendly restricts meetings to noon until 5 p.m.

Most meetings are poorly run, unnecessary, or simply a way for people to socialize.

Besides an agenda, every meeting should have a clear purpose. There really are only three types of meetings: socializing, information sharing, and decision-making.

Building relationships in the workplace is important, and there is nothing wrong with socializing. It’s important to be explicit and avoid meeting to “talk about Project X” while really wanting to socialize.

Information-sharing meetings are best done async. Instead of getting a large group of people together, record your message in a video or write a memo.

Decision-making meetings should be led by the decision maker and come with a pre-read.

The problem with many large organizations is that decisions are poorly framed; it’s unclear who makes the decision, and the decision-maker doesn’t have explicit criteria for how to make the decision.

Outlook: Can AI Help Us Regain Focus?

Show me how focused your team is, and I’ll show you a team that will win.

High gravity in large organizations, on the other hand, is an ask to be disrupted by a smaller, more agile player. The good news is that technology is working against gravity – at least in the workplace.

AI has the potential to help us find fragmented information, force clarity, and take over bland admin tasks that drain time so we can focus on things that matter.

Microsoft’s Future of Work report concludes:

“Organizational knowledge is fragmented across documents, conversations, apps and devices, but LLMs hold the potential to gather and synthesize this information in ways that were previously impossible”.5

In the future, we’ll be able to ask LLMs questions about any internal process, like “What are our top goals?” or “Does this need legal review?” The freed-up time allows us to refine our strategies and get work done.

That future still seems a few years away. Until then, we can do a lot to improve our attention.

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2 Marketing spending shows signs of growth, but AI adoption is slow: report; Beyond belt-tightening: How marketing can drive resiliency during uncertain times

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4 Workers Now Spend Two Full Days a Week on Email and in Meetings

5 Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2023

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Doubling expected project timelines can improve planning and execution success rates.

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NSU has completed a project to develop a mathematical model for the Ministry of Industry and Trade, which allows both to predict admission control figures (TCP) for the nearest period of 1-2 years, and to determine trends of changes in the medium term up to 20 years.
For the first time, NSU scientists have used modern machine learning approaches for such global predictive socio-economic models.
At this stage, the model makes it possible to predict SCCP for higher and secondary vocational education.
In the future, NSU plans to extend this experience to the business sphere when it is necessary to build development forecasts for specific enterprises.
The project started at NSU in 2021, the team was attended by 5 people - employees of the Mathematical Center in Akademgorodok and students of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at NSU.
Then the Center was approached by a company that develops services for the Ministry of Industry and Trade, in particular for the State Information System of Industry.
At that time, the Ministry of Industry and Trade had already deployed a system for predicting the number of graduates in different regions in different specialties, but it required serious modernization - many parameters were considered manually, the possibilities of scenario modeling were limited, state support programs were not taken into account, etc.
Our task was to completely redesign the system.
We chose the following approach: we combined classical mathematical methods of dynamic modeling with machine learning methods that allow us to take into account many parameters in the system, while maintaining the necessary accuracy in the calculation of each of them.
As usual for machine learning models, we divided the entire amount of historical data into independent test and training parts, then trained the model, and then checked the results in the second part.
The model passed all possible tests from the Ministry of Industry and Trade and everywhere demonstrated the necessary accuracy.
Of course, significant accuracy of the forecast can be guaranteed only for the next year, then with each step the accuracy decreases, but even the answer to the question “what will happen if the economy develops evenly in the region, and investments go into the industry ” allows you to determine important trends, says Sergey Ospichev, project manager, candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, deputy director of the Mathematical Center in Akademgorodok, associate professor of the Faculty of Mechanics.
According to our data, machine learning methods have not previously been used in Russia for such global predictive socio-economic models.
This is primarily due to the conservatism of this area of research.
Of course, the “black box ” problem in machine learning models occurs, but only for some approaches.
In our work, we use the “Random Forest ” model, which allows, if necessary, to analyze each solution to the screw and explain how and why such results were obtained.
In addition, as in all machine learning approaches, our model allows us to identify trends that cannot be described by a traditional formula, ” explains Sergey Ospichev.
When making forecasts, a number of factors are taken into account: the migration situation in the region, economic and demographic indicators, gross product, ongoing investment projects and much more.
Based on the analysis of all these parameters, the model predicts the number of vacant jobs that will appear at enterprises in different specialties.
On the other hand, we look at universities: how many graduates and in what specialties enter the labor market, how many of them will move to another region or go to work not in their specialty.
The forecasting model we developed also takes this factor into account, and we took the study of the Higher School of Economics as a basis, ” explains Sergey Ospichev.
In the future, the classical law of supply and demand comes into play: the model compares two indicators - how many graduates will enter the markets, how many vacancies will appear at the enterprises of the region.
This is how the model understands what change to recommend to the Ministry of Industry and Trade to achieve equilibrium.
Further, the Ministry of Industry and Trade transfers them to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
The latter, on the basis of the received data, forms and distributes control figures of admission, which are issued to the regions for budgetary places.
This model allows to take into account such a factor as large investment projects implemented in the region.
For example, enterprises are being built, new equipment is being purchased, workshops are being opened.
At the time of commissioning of the production in 5 years, specialists will be needed.
By that time, universities in the region should offer the labor market a sufficient number of graduates in the necessary specialties in order to prevent their shortage, ” says Sergey Ospichev.
At the first stage, the mathematical center in Akademgorodok started with the prediction of admission control figures for higher education - bachelor's and master's degrees.
This year, we moved to the second stage – we added secondary vocational education, which is now receiving increased attention, as the demand for highly qualified workers is growing.
In the future, the university plans to use a similar mathematical model in the construction of development forecasts for specific enterprises.
Already now, we are taking the macroeconomic forecasts of the Ministry of Economic Development as a basis.
Then, according to these forecasts, we are preparing three scenarios for the socio-economic development of the country - conservative, optimistic and pessimistic.
We also take into account the performance of the company itself.
Based on these data, we can already build models for the development of the company, which will allow owners and shareholders to assess risks and make more informed decisions about long-term investments, ” explains Sergey Ospichev.
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The model considers university graduates by specialty, their movement to other regions, or employment outside their field, along with the performance of the company itself.

Modern mass culture lacks skills to address the inner dimension, resulting in a disconnection from oneself, others, and the planet, which are seen as root problems of our time.

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Content: Hike from inside to outside
Mindful Compassion as a Cure for Environmental Crisis
Modern culture at the mass level does not know how to work with the inner dimension, where it is only possible to close the gap in contact with oneself, other people and the planet.
Such gaps are the root problems of our time.
They form both the causes of the current environmental crisis and the most important levers for change.
Superficial solutions to deep-seated problems stem from a lack of contact with depth: its insensitivity and neglect due to the fact that the culture of modern societies has been shaped around collective trauma.
According to the researcher of collective trauma Thomas Huble, modern mainstream culture tends to overlook an inner dimension that hides a lot of pain and from which it is suggested to be distracted, clogging its attention with addictions, workaholism or consumption.
Distractions, information noise and propaganda constantly undermine our direct sensory perception of the world around us.
The digital economy only reinforces problematic trends — during an existential crisis, we are deeply alienated from reality.
Studying the process of innovation in Silicon Valley and creating a methodology for collective change 30 years ago, researcher Otto Scharmer was one of the first to draw the attention of the scientific community to the importance of working on these gaps and contacting the dimension from which human decisions and behavior are born: our states, ways of thinking, emotions and direction of attention.
Now such opinions are beginning to be considered if not mainstream, then they sound louder, forming an “inside-out ” approach to issues of organizational and social change.
So, in 2021, the Interstate Panel on Climate Change, the initiative to develop awareness at the British Parliament and a number of leading experts on sustainable development in Britain called on politicians and the public to stop denying the internal causes of the environmental crisis.
It is possible not to be unfounded and to prove a direct connection between the internal dimension and its influence on the external environment – ecology.
Science gives a positive answer and understanding of how the psyche works, how mental states are related to behavior, leads to the rapid psychologization of politics, education, management.
One example of a direct relationship between internal and external may be the findings of a study on the effects of psychological trauma and other mental disorders on addiction and behavior, funded by the National Board of Health and Medical Research.
In history, 95% of people with addictions have mental trauma.
For example, dependence on acquisitions — the never satisfied thirst for consumption in any form — from shopping for things to traveling — directly harms the environment.
From a moral perspective, a person can understand that it is time to change habits, but cannot do so because of a gaping psychological hole inside, which constantly requires some external filling.
Another example is a study by the University of Wollongong, Dubai, in which depression is cited as one of the main causes of compulsive shopping.
Inflated narcissism, which is characteristic of modern culture, according to research by scientists at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Cuza in Romania, is associated with low participation in the environmental agenda and lack of pro-environmental behavior.
The issues of psychological trauma, stress and the need to work on mental resilience were among the key issues in last year ’ s UN Human Development Report (see “B-Regeneration ” dated December 21, 2022).
We are witnessing perhaps the most significant change in the social paradigm since the Enlightenment, which launched an extremely rational view of things with its reductionist disregard for what cannot be seen and measured.
Until recently, such phenomena included human emotions, the ability to realize oneself, thinking.
With the advent of MRI and neuroscience, all this has changed, and scientific clarity about the inner world of a person leads us to the fact that we can no longer ignore the material consequences of intangible internal dimensions – how the environment affects human psychology, and the psychology and state of a person – on the environment.
To bring the situation from the inside out, it is necessary to heal our traumas, which cause feelings of dissatisfaction, insecurity, inferiority and lead to destructive behavior: accumulation, excessive consumption, unfeeling the problems of other people and collective systems like the Earth.
In science, the development of adults today is understood as the growth of the complexity of human consciousness.
This happens when in the consciousness of a person at the same time increases the understanding of complex interrelations and interdependencies, causes and consequences of ongoing phenomena, as well as expands the circle of personal sense of responsibility and care: from egocentric to ethnocentric and world-centric.
Such models of the development of consciousness were proved by the research of Harvard professor Robert Keegan, developed in Boston by Bill Torbert, and in Europe by Suzanne Cook-Groiter and other scientists.
The tools of healing and growth today are a large number of methods of psychotherapy or the development of meta-skills and qualities, such as the practices of mindfulness and compassion, that have been studied in laboratory studies.
Mindfulness is a model of the development of awareness or the skill to notice, to know one ’ s state: sensations, thoughts, emotions and reactions.
Compassion practices support critical systems of psychological motivation, cultivated human capacity for healthy contact with oneself, others, and nature.
Developing mindfulness can help us sharpen our focus on what is happening around us, and it will increase our perception of variability in understanding situations and our participation in them.
Without awareness and self-regulation, which is directly related to it, the information received from the outside can trigger an intense bodily stress response and turn off our natural ability to be open and present in our own experience, contact with others and the world around us.
It is this loss of contact that leads us to fragmentation, social fragmentation and fundamentalism that is the cause of all wars and violence, including aggressive behavior towards nature.
Self-awareness and mindfulness and compassion training help to notice, understand and regulate these automatic patterns, overcome social separateness, and form a collective effort to meet common challenges.
Healing trauma, developing awareness and compassion are scientifically proven keys to regenerating society by restoring contact with the body, emotions and identity.
In an era of polarization, polarizing politics, and constantly overloaded attention due to technological dependence and distractions, they are vital antidotes to the hate narrative.
A sense of connectedness with oneself, others, and nature is undervalued in the hyper-rational culture of modernity.
Our ability to feel, connect, and collaborate is key to the current environmental crisis.
Max Rodin, Deep Mind
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Psychologists found that five main personality traits determine life outcomes, with each person excelling in unique areas to find happiness, although not everyone must be equally strong in all areas.

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Content: Psychologists: five main personality traits determine the results of life
9 April 2019, 12: 58
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The personality traits of a person directly affect the results of life in the family and in professional achievements.
Psychologists have conducted a large-scale study of this dependence.
According to psychologist Christopher J.
Soto ’ s Life Results Personality Replication Project (LOOPR) explored the relationship between basic personality traits and people ’ s capabilities.
They were examined: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, pleasantness and neuroticism.
International studies have made it possible to summarize the test results of 6 thousand people.
As a result of the implementation of LOOPR, psychologists discovered the relationship between traits and life outcomes.
The study was published in the journal Psychological Science.
About 87 percent of the original questionnaire data were reproducible.
New data can become the main metric in determining the capabilities of the respondent.
They can be used in stress tests, when hiring, determining strengths and weaknesses, and treating mental illness.

An IT company identified employee strengths and weaknesses, and an example illustrated that individuals may be passionate and excel in their chosen fields, though their personal needs and fulfillment may differ.

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Content: Growing a Genius
About people and their abilities
Writer, director and producer
Have you heard of the balance wheel?
Each person has spheres in which he realizes himself in order to catch a feeling of happiness.
This is health, career, friendship, personal relationships, finances and so on.
Trainers say this: draw a circle, point out these areas and mark on the lines how they are implemented.
If your wheel is crooked – there are no friends, no hobbies – it will not go anywhere with life.
Start pumping up areas that are failing, and then your condition will become more stable and you will be happier.
Everything seems logical.
But who said that all people need to be equally pumped in all spheres?
Maybe they make us happy “middle ups ”?
A few years ago, I worked with two different companies (telecommunications and IT) that developed their talented employees, and their approach to this issue was radically different.
The telecommunications company used tests to determine the strengths and weaknesses of employees and pumped weaknesses.
Let ’ s say a person was incredibly good at communications, but very bad at keeping records, creating reports, and other activities that require concentration.
He was sent to a training on structuring himself “to the size ”, taught to make reports, charts and graphs.
The man leveled.
But did it make him happier or more effective?
The IT company also identified the strengths and weaknesses of employees.
For example, a person was very talented in programming, had a non-standard thinking, but completely failed in communication with colleagues.
What did the company do?
She invested money in his development in those competencies and skills that he already had off the scale.
They developed strengths!
They didn ’ t equalize everyone.
From talented people in a certain area, the company created almost brilliant people in the same area.
Judging by the polls, this made employees even happier, and their efficiency in work increased significantly.
They did what they loved and improved in it, and everything that failed was picked up by other employees with different strengths.
Why invest your strength in weaknesses, pulling yourself to the middle level, when you can pump your strength and go into the lead?
Remember Sherlock Holmes, who did not know that the Earth revolves around the Sun?
He said he didn ’ t need that knowledge at all.
They will not help in their activities.
But he developed his observation, knowledge in the field of chemistry and criminology.
He did not understand anything about human communication, but how we like this hero!
Why all of you?
Because it ’ s interesting, not average.
So why don ’ t we all become Sherlocks Holmes in areas where we are powerful by nature?
I am, for example, very good at writing movies.
I get incredible pleasure from my work.
I am ready to create TV series, feature films and TV shows for days.
If you look at how much time during the day I exist in reality, the balance will be about 80 / 20, where 80% is a fictional reality of my work.
And I'm high.
My friend is in finance and loves it.
He is a fanatic of his field.
Is it interesting to talk to him?
More like, not so much.
In close communication, he gets tired.
But he's happy!
He's fine!
If he fell into the clutches of a personal growth marathon, perhaps he would have developed his weaknesses, made more friends and hobbies.
But how much does he need it?
Why should everyone have family, friends, hobbies, entertainment, if a person is happy with completely different things?
His balance wheel is crooked.
And it seems as if he is not going, he is about to take off, developing in his favorite sphere, getting incredible pleasure from his life.
How did we all get that we all need the same things, and our balance of development of life spheres should be equal everywhere?
Why do we listen to bloggers who tell us that everyone needs the same thing?
We just make a crowd that is easy to manage.
He does not want a family and children.
We put a stamp on him, he's got a problem.
No one has a hobby.
We think: an unhappy person, does not rest at all.
People don ’ t care about money.
We think you're a fool.
No silver!
So wrong.
Who said it was wrong?
If a person has a car, an apartment, a cottage, a family and leisure - this is right, and if a person has a house full of books and he invents a cure for an incurable disease at work for days, forgetting about sleep and rest - this is wrong.
It's not in balance, it's not in resource, it can't be normal.
They make us normal.
They make us comfortable.
We all fall under the same roof, forgetting that we are all different.
We need something different!
And in different proportions.
Zuckerberg would create his own social network if he evenly distributed his resources: now I have friends, then yoga, then you need to draw - there must be a hobby.
Ah, yes!
More dates.
You have to have a personal life.
With this approach, FB would have been created by someone else.
And Elon Musk?
If he hadn ’ t worked on his aortic rupture projects, devoting himself to family and children, friends and hobbies, would he have created SpaceX?
I doubt it very much.
Great achievements require overwork in one area of the proverbial wheel of balance.
Name any outstanding person, and we will see a crooked wheel.
Musicians, politicians, businessmen, filmmakers.
What are we worse than?
As long as we align ourselves, they do really worthwhile things.
So let our curve wheels of balance not go on the paved road by bloggers and psychologists, and soar to the stars.
Invest in your strengths by giving yourself to your favorite areas.
And you will be happy.
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A business book was highlighted for covering a wide range of topics and is available as an illustrated version for children and adolescents to grasp key ideas simply.

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Content: Business Book of the Month.
Ray Dalio.
"Principles"
Dmitry Bulgakov, Director of the Department of Infrastructure Projects of the Investment Development Agency of the Novosibirsk Region, shared his opinion on Ray Dalio ’ s book “Principles ” in the traditional rubric“ The Business Book of the Month ”.
— How many books on the psychology of personal development and motivation, achieving success have been written by various well-known billionaires, entrepreneurs, managers, psychologists and politicians?
Enough, and for sure each of them has its own distinctive look, but few of them contain really valuable and universal solutions.
Raymond Dalio ’ s book Principles is exactly that.
This is a rare exception to the rule where the author tried to cover a lot of issues, and he managed to do so.
Ray Dalio is an American financier, billionaire, founder of the investment company Bridgewater Associates, a philanthropist.
He is on the 88th line in the list of the richest people in the world according to Forbes magazine.
The extraordinary personality of the author, which has been read many times in various articles, his rich experience and success story in a typical “self-made ” format, by stuffing numerous cones, enthusiastic reviews of G. Gref and B. Gates - all this promised that the book will be fascinating and useful.
According to Ray Dalio, each person in his life path, having gone through various trials and difficulties, will not remain the same and will receive a “gift ” (experience, knowledge, money – anything) as a reward, and this will serve as a further catalyst for change and new challenges.
Not only the manager, absolutely any person regularly faces various life and work situations to which it is necessary to respond.
In the absence of principles, we are forced to think about our actions every time, as if we were in such a situation for the first time.
In addition to the fact that it takes a lot of time each time, we ourselves often doubt the correctness of the decision made.
The goals and desires of each person may differ from each other, but having developed their individual principles, subordinating the decision-making process to certain algorithms, you can achieve the maximum level of personal organization and efficiency.
The author has done a really great job on self-knowledge, development, psychology, and it is important that the book contains numerous references to the methods used and the research conducted: something is described thesis, something is given for independent study.
The information is presented in a structured way and the book is easy to read – it contains a lot of working methods and valuable tips on personnel management, problem solving, achieving goals and is suitable for both managers or business owners, and for people who want to raise their own productivity and achieve professional success.
Having correctly formulated your own system of criteria, decision-making in any situation will be as rational and balanced as possible, as they say, “on a cold head ” – this is the secret formula for success, using which you can each time set new goals and achieve higher results.
The author pays special attention to numerous principles of corporate culture – meritocracy of ideas, extreme openness, honesty and transparency, automation of making almost any decisions that allow the manager to exclude himself from the chain at any time so that nothing collapses.
It is worth noting that the described principles Ray formulated for 68 years, and they have repeatedly undergone changes, improved taking into account the knowledge and experience gained.
The book itself, consisting of more than 600 pages, is formed in such a way that it is not necessary to get acquainted with it consistently - you can selectively analyze those issues that are most interesting, or you can learn how the path of becoming one of the most interesting people of our time took place.
There is also a wonderful illustrated version, which is perfect for children and adolescents to get acquainted with the key ideas and principles of the book in a concise and simple way.
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Risk attitudes were found to be similar across genders and age groups, with free coaching sessions offered by experts in psychoanalytic business counseling.

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Content: « Psychoanalytic coaches in the coming years will become top specialists of any helping professions »
Source: MIL-OSI English Language News
Source: State University Higher School of Economics – State University Higher School of Economics –
HSE ’ s online campus launches the Master ’ s programme “Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Business Consulting ” in digital format.
The only specialized program in Russia prepares a new generation of executive coaches who are able to respond to business needs and help employees grow.
For more than 10 years, this master ’ s program has been a leader among Russian educational programs in the field of Practical Psychology and occupies the top lines of the ranking of HSE master ’ s programs.
Graduates of the program find themselves in individual psychoanalytic, business and executive coaching, group and team business coaching, organizational counseling and change management.
The competencies obtained in the program help employees at any level to build a career, and business owners to implement ambitious strategies.
The author of the program is a leading executive coach of international business schools INSEAD, CEDEP, head of the Department of Psychoanalysis and Business Consulting at the Higher School of Economics Andrei Rossokhin.
- Andrei Vladimirovich, when can not do without a coach?
I often hear questions about whether a person can help himself on his own, whether it is worth reading books to become a leader, accept career challenges, overcome procrastination.
The answer is simple: read necessarily, reading broadens the horizons and gives rational knowledge.
Books cannot help in practice.
Real change is achieved only through learning through new experiences.
We need an assistant for that.
He will point out what we do not see, work with us psychological limitations, find hidden resources in us and launch qualitative changes in our daily work.
The task of the coach is to create conditions for the inner strength of the client to grow.
Business began to understand the importance of such work, so the market for professional coaching services is growing rapidly.
But this market is discredited by non-professionals.
How to find real experts?
– It is important to realize that coaching is a profession and, therefore, requires an appropriate higher education.
Short-term courses are not necessary here.
The easiest way to find a professional is to knock on our master ’ s project “Affordable Coaching ”.
Here you can get three free sessions with a coach - a master of psychology and an expert in psychoanalytic business counseling.
He studies on the program and works under the supervision of our teachers.
Supervision is a special session with an experienced colleague, which understands each interaction with the client.
Thanks to this, the coach is constantly developing, his ability to help customers in solving business requests is growing.
The question of whether a coach has supervisors will help when choosing a specialist.
Ask him how often he passes them.
If you get the answer “it was a couple of times ” or“ I do this every six months ” – stay away from such an “expert ”.
A real professional coach goes through supervision constantly.
— Can the coach help already in the first session?
It is common for people to expect miracles.
It seems that it is enough to voice a request, come to the first session - and you come out happy, life has changed!
And if not, then I got a bad coach.
On the expectation of such a miracle, the info-gypsy coaches parasitize.
In fact, it's exactly the opposite.
After the first session, you should not only have a feeling of something new, although not fully understood, but also slightly increase anxiety.
The beginning of any real change is always associated with an increase in resistance.
Getting out of the usual comfort zone provokes difficult feelings: how it was here, I know well, but how it will be there - I have no idea.
Solving any serious request requires not one or even three to five sessions, but thorough detailed work.
Limitations need to be identified, new resources need to be found, and then all this new must find flesh and blood in the business reality, germinate there and become stable.
Change must be sustainable and lasting, not momentary, under the influence of cheap suggestion or pumping “energy ” and“ inspiration. ”
How is the success of a business coach measured?
— The effectiveness of the coach ’ s work, it would seem logical to describe it this way: a person came with burnout – left with a second breath and restored.
The real picture is not so simple.
The specific request the client came with may be a curtain behind which the true request is hidden.
For example, the problem of his burnout was not fatigue or overstrain, but demotivation, loss of meaning and involvement in work.
For the client, this was the result of years of passive waiting for an increase.
He tried his best to earn this promotion, hoping that his efforts would be noticed by the leadership.
But he made no attempt to express his wish.
Behind such ineffective behavior were certain internal conflicts, which he was able to understand and work out only on psychoanalytic coaching.
Having overcome childhood fears to go on stage and declare his desires, he was able to take a more active position, gained motivation, meaning and involvement.
All these changes, painstakingly nurtured in the course of the work on the action plan, eventually brought it the desired result.
But not after five sessions, but after a few months of weekly coaching.
Is the age of the coach important?
- Not that much.
Among the graduates there are both current top managers and business owners who successfully combine work in business with coaching and business consulting, as well as young specialists who lead successful practice.
How does your program learn to respond to customer requests?
It combines the approaches of organizational psychology and applied psychoanalysis.
We learn to identify unconscious mental processes.
They affect behavior, career dynamics, and a person ’ s work style.
Students of the program begin to understand what is the basis of behavior and what is the deep motivation of the client, as well as to perceive the business from the position of inter- and intra-personal interactions of employees.
The program provides a lot of supervision, master classes and workshops of Russian and foreign business consultants based on real client cases.
Every week, as part of the author ’ s course, I demonstrate video cases of my own coaching sessions with business owners and top managers with detailed analysis and analysis.
Students will get acquainted with various methods of working with groups and organizations, analyze and master the methods and tools of the psychodynamic approach in mentoring and facilitation, work with an organizational drawing, a dream matrix, participation in Balint groups and much more.
Separately, we observe the dynamics of a large group - the prototype of any team and team.
During the two-year study period, we give students access to private and corporate clients for individual sessions and group coaching work.
We have successfully run the project “Corporate coaching for business ”, its participants held 5000 group and individual sessions with employees of more than 90 Russian and foreign companies.
Information about the project is here.
Who teaches on the program?
— Masters and gurus of coaching and business consulting from all over the world: from Russia, Europe, Canada, USA, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, etc.
If we talk about personalities, the development of business coaching in Russia was facilitated by our twenty-year cooperation with one of the most famous business consultants in the world, Professor INSEAD Manfred Kets de Vries.
The international team of experts of the program confirms its absolute uniqueness.
It is applied not in words, but in deeds.
We train professional practitioners.
The training itself is a two-year coaching process.
It allows students to achieve completely amazing changes not only in their professional but also in their personal lives.
Sigmund Freud once said that psychoanalysis helps people learn to love and work with pleasure.
I am confident that our program of applied psychoanalysis in business fully meets these criteria.
Is there a danger that neural networks will replace coaches in the future?
Trusting smart machines can be easier than opening up to a live interlocutor.
Our approach is unique and irreplaceable in working with people.
No matter how advanced artificial intelligence may be, it will never be able to penetrate the depths of our unconscious.
It will not be able to identify the root cause of conflicts that block professional development, work out restrictions and find hidden resources and opportunities for growth.
Psychoanalytic coaches in the coming years will become top specialists of any helping professions.
In the past few years, interest in not only physical but also mental health has been increasing, and the demand for psychologically-oriented coaches and business consultants has been steadily growing.
When external supports are unstable, it is very important to look for support within yourself, to strive to be in contact with your mental and life force and use it for professional development.
Then we will work with meaning and with pleasure.
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An effective coaching session can provide immediate help, but sometimes the real client request is hidden behind an initial concern.

A specific case showed an employee striving for promotion but failing to communicate his desires to management.

Business coaching in Russia benefited from a twenty-year partnership with INSEAD Professor Manfred Kets de Vries, with psychoanalytic coaches expected to become leading specialists in helping professions.

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Research claims only 10% of life is shaped by circumstances while the other 90% depends on our responses.

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Content: The 90 / 10 Rule: Change Begins Within You
In psychology, there is the concept of the 90 / 10 rule, according to which our reactions to events are much more important than the events themselves.
In fact, only 10% of a person ’ s life is determined by what happens to him.
The other 90% is directly related to how we respond to those 10%.
Different people react differently to the same situation.
Depending on the first reaction to what happened, their day can end both favorably and unfavorably.
Our reaction to the difficulties that arise can determine how good or bad our day, week or year will pass.
It all depends on us.
It is very important to remember this rule, because it constantly reminds us that we control most of our life, namely 90% of it.
And it frees us from useless emotions, showing that 10% of this life is beyond our control.
Let ’ s look at a concrete example of how this rule can be used in practice.
Imagine that you are working on a project for your boss in the morning.
The timing is pretty tight, but you're almost done.
And so you are preparing to save the file, but suddenly the light goes out and the computer turns off.
Turns out your wife just turned on the stove and it knocked out the fuse.
You are angry, worried and think that this is the end.
You blame your wife for everything, which eventually ends in a serious quarrel.
You worry, go to the kitchen and accidentally touch your favorite cup, from which you drink coffee every morning.
It's crashing.
You are even more angry and blame your son for the fact that he drank from it and did not put it in its place.
By replacing the fuse, you do your best to recover the file on your computer, but nothing works out.
You are furious, you throw curses and go outside to get some air, slamming the door.
Bottom line: you're mad at your wife and son, your favorite cup is broken, and the work is not done.
You're having a bad day.
What happened?
As you can see, there was a trigger that determined 10% of the current situation.
The stove was turned on, which knocked out the fuse.
Nothing could be done about this event.
It is the cause of the actions of a man who does not plan anything wrong.
A simple mistake.
Everything that could have been up to us happened afterwards.
Here they are - the same 90% who turned a normal day into a terrible one.
The protagonist of our story made several problems out of one.
Instead of focusing his energy on redesigning the project, asking his wife for help, or telling his boss what had happened and asking for more time, he resorted to an unproductive reaction.
As a result, the whole family was in a quarrel due to an accidental and uncontrolled event.
Was it worth it?
When to use the 90 / 10 rule
The cause of destructive reactions can be many different situations.
So, there are situations when you need to remember this rule and start using your willpower to prevent emotions from taking over the mind.
The point is to accept these frustrations as part of the game of life.
If someone is judging you
You cannot control the judgments and criticisms of other people, because they have the right to think what they want.
You can control only the importance and value attached to these judgments.
If I can ’ t control other people ’ s opinions about me, then why waste my energy on it?
If you have made a mistake
Errors cannot be predicted.
Yes, you can learn from them, but even this will not prevent them from repeating themselves.
This is the nature of man.
You can only control your reactions to these mistakes.
You decide for yourself whether to admit these mistakes, how severely you should punish yourself and whether you are ready to accept your mistakes.
If others don ’ t want to do what you expect them to do.
It is impossible to influence the reaction of another person.
Requiring someone to change for you is unrealistic and will lead to disappointment.
It will also jeopardize your relationship with this person.
If you are facing difficulties
In life, everything is not smooth.
Studies show that in their life path, each person faces an average of 20 thousand problems and failures.
They can be as small (step on dog excrement), and weighty (loss of someone close).
It affects our plans and is beyond our control.
We are responsible for how such events affect our lives.
So if you run into something you can ’ t influence again, apply the 90 / 10 rule.
You already know that 90% is up to you.
Without letting the remaining 10% control you, you will have the opportunity to avoid the proliferation of the problem.
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A practical example involving a family and a tripped fuse is used to illustrate the “90/10 rule,” advising to accept life’s frustrations as normal.

Mistakes and the actions of others are largely unpredictable and highlight the illusion of control.

Testing multiple ads can determine which product features persuade clients most, as customers often focus on perceived value and ignore other factors.

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Content: Stories
The illusion of focusing: how to manage customer attention in your favor
Stories
Daria Sidorova
Editor of the "History" department.
Daria Sidorova
When making decisions, we tend to take into account the information that we noticed in the first place.
This is how the illusion of focus works.
Let ’ s talk about how to use this effect to increase conversion.
The illusion of focusing: how to manage customer attention in your favor
The illusion of focusing was discovered by psychologist Daniel Kahneman.
In his study, he asked students from Midwestern states how much happier they thought people in California were.
The students suggested that, compared to Ohio and Michigan, California residents feel happier because the weather is better there.
But they overestimated the impact of this factor: in fact, people in California are not much happier than those who live in the Midwest.
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This is evident in other areas as well.
For example, people often exaggerate the value of wealth for happiness, and also consider more valuable that product that is more expensive.
Here ’ s how to apply this effect.
Highlight the best offer on the landing page
Customers make decisions based on the elements they first noticed.
Therefore, use at the beginning of presentations and sales pages that unique selling proposition (USP), which finds the greatest response.
Focus on this offer or highlight your main advantage over your competitors so that people do not take into account less profitable aspects, such as price.
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How do I know which metrics are more important to my client?
To do this, for example, you can test 10 ads, each of which focuses on a certain USP, advantage or function.
Choose among them the ones that showed the best results, and then create a separate landing page for each benefit.
Use branding and storytelling
If you form brand identity and emotional associations with it through strong visual and text signals, as well as storytelling, customers will begin to pay more attention to these factors and lose sight of others, such as price and technical characteristics.
This technique is masterfully owned by Apple.
Reformulate the proposals
Turn the attention of customers so that they make decisions in your favor.
Here are a few examples.
• A set of products or services with a discount.
Customers focus on its perceived value and ignore other factors such as the quality and utility of each product.
• Limited validity period.
If the offer is limited in quantity and time, aspects such as quality and suitability are given less attention.
• Cashback and free samples.
These aspects become more important than the quality, usefulness and suitability of the product.
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Record-keeping is important not only for people but for all processes, according to the author Elia Colombo.

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Content: You will not miss us!
7,987 followers
Sarcastic Illustrations of Modern Society
Italian designer, illustrator and “creative mind ” Elia Colombo (aka Gebe) believes that“ life is too short to get a real job. ”
It is this motto that helps him express his thoughts in creativity based on daily realities and events.
Combining skills in graphic design with an interest in philosophy, he creates conceptual illustrations that are worth thinking about.
Each colorful vector image illustrates the dangers of modern society and indicates the corresponding feelings and experiences, flavored with a dose of humor and irony.
The digital illusion.
Author: Elia Colombo.
Despite the fact that his career began with the role of a modest boy pizzerista, Elia, showing a carefree and cheerful attitude to his own life and work, has achieved untold success in his work, becoming one of the sought-after illustrators working on order with corporations such as ING, Nissan and Adobe.
He attributes his carefree attitude to everything to philosophy, referring to the fact that when he realized that “there is nothing serious in life itself ”, and in fact it should be more of an experiment or a game than a stoic undertaking, giving up many things, Elijah plunged headlong into the art woven from humor, irony, sarcasm and global problems of modern humanity.
Mind control.
Author: Elia Colombo.
Even choosing to become a freelance designer was a meaningful, deeply philosophical choice: “I don ’ t work as an independent designer because I want to be a designer, I work as an independent designer because I want to be independent.
My real purpose is not directly related to my profession.
Maybe I ’ m an idealist, but I prefer to dedicate design to my life rather than dedicating my life to design. ”
Back to school.
Author: Elia Colombo.
Humor and sarcasm are at the heart of his illustrations, and through these mocking messages, he seeks to make people think, or at least lead them to a different view and thinking, hoping that his work will inspire the viewer to “go beyond the box ” by talking about not trying to be good, just being different.
Unattainable satisfaction.
Author: Elia Colombo.
And even when it comes to finding inspiration for his vector graphics, Elijah has a rather poetic way of describing his process: “The fisherman doesn ’ t know exactly where his fish is, and he can ’ t decide which one to catch.
He only knows that there are a lot of fish in the sea.
So he's waiting.
When it comes to ideas, it works the same way: we swim in a sea of thoughts, completely unaware of what is floating beneath us.
We don ’ t know where to look for ideas, like a fisherman we have to wait for, ready to catch what comes to us on our own. ”
Killed time.
Author: Elia Colombo.
The power of marketing.
Author: Elia Colombo.
Elia emphasizes that this stage of "fishing" is the most important.
Once he catches an idea, he can present the final product and quickly transfer the idea to paper.
After that, it comes to Adobe Illustrator, where it brings its ideas to life.
As a freelance designer, it is important that the idea is creative and creative, but equally important for business and practical.
“Let ’ s be realistic, ” he says,“ the life of a freelancer is a hard life.
I spend a lot of my time reminding clients about billing and payment. ”
That is why, in most cases, he sells the same work several times, not seeing anything shameful in it, because any creativity should be rewarded.
Education.
Author: Elia Colombo.
Violation of the rule.
Author: Elia Colombo.
Colombo ’ s themes include social pressure, mental health issues, and the negative effects of social media addiction.
One image, titled “Breaking the Rule, ” illustrates the stages of a conveyor belt ’ s life.
Humanoid characters go through every moment, from school to work, family, and ultimately death.
However, one rebel tries to escape, causing a "systemic error".
Other images illustrate the loneliness that some may experience while diving into the world of social media, from the eternal pursuit of “likes ” to the constant support of online characters.
New followers.
Author: Elia Colombo.
Who am I?
Author: Elia Colombo.
In addition, among his works can be found the case when a typical death in a black hoodie with a scythe flips through the summary in social networks, noting to himself that she had new followers.
Of course, it ’ s not just people who need to keep records.
But then one picture is instantly replaced by another, where the girl for the past day has been wondering "who she really is."
And while she reflects on it, the author turns on the propaganda mode in the following illustration, openly stating that it would not hurt modern humanity to read more books, rather than hang out in social networks and take dozens of useless selfies, trying to seem better than you really are.
Read more books.
Author: Elia Colombo.
Self-destruct.
Author: Elia Colombo.
School education is also neglected.
Where it is clearly shown that at first each of us with a smile on his face and the initial baggage of knowledge in a backpack behind him goes to reap the fruits of science, after the expiration of the term leaving Almamater completely empty.
Just like when you go to that same school without much enthusiasm, dragging the shackles of school supplies and textbooks behind you.
In addition, he focuses on marketing, where prices unreasonably jump only because a person is willing to overpay for the name of the brand, the quality of which sometimes does not differ from nameless goods of mass production and consumption.
No less bright and poignant illustration, telling how humanity kills time, where an old cuckoo clock simply can not stand what is happening, carry itself with a shot in the chips.
And this is only a small part of what you can tell by looking at the illustrations he created, in which life is boiling, time is running out, and humanity continues to act on the principle of herd thinking, living on the Internet, and not outside it.
Getting a job.
Author: Elia Colombo.
Forever.
Author: Elia Colombo.
How designers look at curves.
Author: Elia Colombo.
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Feelings and personal experiences have been overlooked in organizational research, despite being significant for activists and civil society workers.

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Content: Feelings and personal experiences...
Towards a New Organizational Debate
Like any human or organizational body in our country, Palestinian NGOs and NGOs operate under the weight of a colonized reality, in which they suffer from impoverishment policies, funding and professional, and because of this, the organizational processes become more complex and more challenging than if we addressed them in their abstract form in other contexts.
While the Facebook page, monthly bulletin, and photos carry a lot of resistance and achievements according to each institution ’ s understanding of its role, we who are interested in organizational studies wonder about the safety of assets inside the buildings of civil institutions; what does their daily organizational life look like?
What happens in her staff meetings, between writing emails and reports, on her lunch break (if any), and in personal and professional conversations?
These are organizational aspects that have been neglected by the research of organizational studies since the beginning, and they are also experiences that we activists / civil society employees have accumulated; we are the people who push for just change...
These are organizational aspects that have been neglected by the research of organizational studies from the beginning, and they are also experiences that we activists / civil society employees have accumulated; we are the people who push for just change.
I'm talking about passion and feelings at work.
I have accumulated experiences volunteering in civil society organizations since 2013, and for four years I was part of a staff at a social change organization, and part of a student movement until 2020, and personal experiences and the experiences of my colleagues led me to question management and the place of feelings in it.
Here, too, I do not hide my bias toward a certain way of managing feminism, and toward certain values.
In the face of this personal awareness, I was accompanied by caution and caution in dealing with any impact on the process of analysis and writing, in which I tried hard to interpret the results in a sympathetic and ethical manner, and as any research and human process, my research experience is prone to errors and bias.
A Western Legacy and a Feminist Challenge
Emotions are a key resource in sociological theories and psycho-organizational analysis of the survival and development of institutions, and their essential role in organizational and human processes and processes such as learning, understanding, mass mobilization, and the realization of self-agency.
The literature tells us that, despite the belated organisational awakening to emotions, emphasizing their importance and addressing them in organisational processes, oppressive structural dualities are still rooted in the way we deal with feelings and emotion; these dualities are reinforced in Western contexts, and between American and European societies that have relied on logic and emotion as opposites. Logic is superior to emotion, and emotion is defined as an absence, even a threat to logic.
We find this in the bureaucratic, engineering and colonial legacy of institutionalization, where administrative law and organizational studies arose in the first colonies in their experiments on oppressed peoples.
The theory of Orientalism also spoke of the West ’ s refinement of the image of “the Orient ” or“ the Other, ” which was portrayed as an emotional, childish, and backward person.
In this legacy, an inferior position of emotion is built, from which internal and external practices and management are created that aim to control emotions and implement non-emotional management.
Practices that sought to control or tame emotions for exploitative profit purposes varied and were shaped by the terms “emotional effort, ”“ emotional activation, ” and other different management styles.
Feminists of different persuasions struggled to challenge these oppressive binaries and policies, and linked personal experiences to politics with the phrase “the personal is the political ”, a sign of the inseparability of different lives; their organizations were formed around the practices of rebuilding power relations between workers, focusing on developing the personal skills and abilities of members of organizations, and challenging any separation of the living self. Personal and public Zen.
For example, Mambi and Butman ’ s (1992) model is one of the feminist organizational models of emotion management, taking into account organizational and personal challenges, and is bound up with feminist values and practices, including the importance of supportive communities, caring for one another, interconnectedness with individual responsibility, and bearing the ambiguity and ambiguity of the organizational and structural process.
These models aim to balance different value requirements, make the group a comfortable place for all, challenge traditional work systems that make experiences alienated from their production, and eliminate emotional effort and any laws on emotion, gender or otherwise.
This article starts from the importance of attention and legitimacy to emotional experiences, and the expression of feelings within the organizational life of organizations and groups.
This thesis starts from a preliminary point in which it asks about the place of emotions within organizational cultures in non-profit organizations in general.
The experiences of black feminists and Southern feminists added other aspects of analysis that intersect with race, class, and their relationship to the management of feelings: they challenged the concept of “feminist fraternity ” and dealt with other layers of injustice and racism.
In light of these changes, Palestinian feminists fought their war on “feminist fraternity ” in their relationship with Israeli feminists, revealing power and supremacist relations, and began to separate from them in the 1990s and form independent institutions.
This separation was accompanied by regional changes from the Oslo Accords and the (second) Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Intifada, which alerted Palestinians to the need for an independent national project.
This article starts from the importance of attention and legitimacy to emotional experiences, and the expression of feelings within the organizational life of organizations and groups.
This thesis starts from a preliminary point in which it asks about the place of feelings within organizational cultures in non-profit organizations in general, and feminism in particular, because they are research-exciting and have a central role in the field of emotion.
I have tried to identify this status through the attitudes, values, and assumptions that managers / leaders hold about emotions, as well as the experiences of female employees, as an additional indication of its position within emotional organizational cultures.
The research was based on an analysis of 17 interviews from six Palestinian women ’ s organizations, which varied in their definition, scope, and staff size.
As part of the answer to the research question, we can say that the status of feelings in civil society institutions varied and related to several themes, which are not necessarily the cause and cause of this status, but they were linked to the emotional culture within the institutions; the integration and separation between the personal and professional seemed to approach a particular work culture, a theme that coincided with the existence of a hierarchy or equality between the values        carried by cities. This has been closely linked to the legitimacy and illegitimacy of the expression of feelings in the daily life of institutions.
An official place of feeling.
Some institutions (the first group) have shown a personalized space that contains, supports, and legitimizes feelings.
This status has been linked to feminist values and the essence of feminist work, and one of the managers asserts: “I mean the first thing to be feminist and my practices to be feminist, and my discourse to be feminist, whatever I can be in a position that judges me and gives me. ”
The women managers in this group challenged the gender and traditional constructs of the assertive, emotionless “traditional manager ” role, and defined the topic of assertiveness as the ability of the manager and manager to express emotions and say beautiful and difficult things in a way that is aware of the power relationships and needs of the organization and individuals.
“I ’ m not one of the people who gets upset, but it ’ s important for me to ask, and I appreciate, even if I have a criticism, I say it in a way that doesn ’ t hurt the person in front of me, I try as much as I can ”; this position allowed great legitimacy for the expression of feelings, in a way that allows everyone to be part of the conversation, whatever its nature.
The Heterarchy of Values was also central to the first group organizations, and they expressed a balanced management that constantly tries to balance the needs of the organization and the needs of its employees. This balance required the cooperation of all parties in the organization and fair practices. We also see in her statement the value of self-agency, freedom of action, trust and encouragement.
A little space for emotion.
In the second group of organizations, there was an environment that conflicted with emotions; although the managers stated the importance of feelings and emotions and their role in the work, they also stated a very narrow space for them within the daily life of the organizations, and attributed this neglect because of the conditions they suffer from in the context of their daily work.
From the analysis of the interviews, we see that the feelings and expressions were associated with the aftermath of a problem within the crew, the resignation of individuals, or sudden emotional outbursts.
This association between feelings and problems, by mobilizing the emotional aspects, is considered to have negative connotations such as burden and danger.
The values of labor, sacrifice, achievement, professional, strategic, and the image of “strong ” feminism emerged as higher and better values than others, and manifested themselves as values that are devoid of feelings, or have an advantage over emotional aspects.
There have also been situations in managers and some employees characterized by logics of Dualities and Hierarchies between work / career and personal / emotional, as well as an emotional / logical duality with a hierarchical relationship, one manager says: “I prefer things, how you make sense, how you direct yourself.
I feel that it is logic and reason to pull forward and feelings in the way we deal with them are sometimes something that gives us legitimacy to pull us back.
Or leave us standing in our place. ”
At other times, the relationship seemed to be the opposite of work and productivity; another manager said, “We want to work, we want to save it, in this thing, which is linked to everything that has been achieved and not achieved, I mean on the one hand we want women ’ s associations to be a supportive and inclusive framework, containing, embracing and developing, On the other hand, if we don ’ t work, it means that the association is a nursery. ”
In addition to “subverting ” feelings and emotions to the atmosphere of work and responsibility, reference was made to the relationship of these attitudes to the culture or the local community, and a manager and employee from various institutions spoke, with a careful justification, that the Arab society has a very emotional culture, in which the working person“ drowns ” or “slides ” his feelings, and loses his ability to produce or take responsibility.
This view of emotions, according to the literature, alludes to a colonialist picture of Arab society and culture.
Far from blaming and blaming women workers, this picture expresses the horror of oppression around us and ourselves, in considering emotion as a charge of delegitimization.
These structural dualities have been connected to a hierarchy of values, and an emptying of feelings from them; despite the existence of different and diverse values within these conflicting cultures, the values of work, sacrifice, achievement, career, and strategy, and the image of “strong ” feminism have emerged as higher and better values than other values, and have manifested themselves as empty values of feelings. Or an advantage over the emotional aspects you carry.
This management philosophy has been associated with the daily practices of staff relations among each other; bilateral thinking has led to management practices that put aside and temporarily the natural feelings and needs of individuals, and these practices have not found much welcome, but have been associated with a slow emotional and human drain of assets and those in the organization.
An emotional struggle.
In the final piece of research, female employees ’ experiences pointed to the centrality of emotion in their giving and organizational experiences; both male and female employees agreed on the importance and need for emotional recognition in different work situations. ing) within the work, and expressed it through a greater awareness of the personal and professional dimensions, and the influence of legitimacy in the humanization of the work space: "In short, I feel that it is someone I see you, I mean I see you as a human being, as feelings...".
It was also interesting that the effect of legitimate empathic management attitudes was significant in reducing emotional effort and unavoidable organizational pain at various stages of work.
In the context of shrinking emotional space, the vast majority of female and male employees expressed blatant anger in interviews, and rejection of emotionless theoretical terms such as “professional, ”“ strategic, ” and images of “strong feminists. ” - Two feet?
It's a professional heck?
It's just that we're dealing with a bad job?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
This rejection was accompanied by a kind of closeness and communication towards the image of management and desired relationships, in which there is a place to express the need for appreciation, for emotional legitimacy, and to link it to the just message carried by feminists.
The article aims to raise our awareness, institutions, entities, individuals and officials, about politics and emotional rights and their intersection with all the issues we are fighting for, and its thesis attempts to recognize the challenges, structures, oppressive political contexts and their effects within the institution.
In the end, this article does not aim to create a superficial duality for addressing feelings and emotion; the formal status of feelings in the first group does not mean that it is easy for managers to touch or express emotionally on all topics, nor does the lack of space mean that it is structural in all projects of organizations in the second group, but rather takes us to more complex and profound questions about the organizational status quo.
Nor does the article aim to pursue an organizational “ideal ” feminist model.
The article aims to raise our awareness, institutions, bodies, responsible individuals and officials, about the politics and emotional rights and their intersection with all the issues we are fighting for, and its thesis attempts to recognize the challenges, structures, oppressive political contexts and their effects within the institution.
In the end, this thesis attempts to encourage the creation and maintenance of an emotional culture, based on empathy, and legitimacy of emotional expression, and sees emotions as one of the main resources; then institutions can raise their capacity and the capacities of workers and workers in a constructive and coherent manner, in which we can achieve personal and institutional good and benefit, helping us to complete this struggle and change oppressive buildings.
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Organizational studies have typically valued logic over emotion, often treating feelings as threats to rationality.

This thesis inquires about the place of emotions within non-profit organizational cultures.

The article emphasizes the importance of legitimizing emotional experiences and their expression in organizational life.

It argues that logic is needed to move forward, but that engaging with feelings can sometimes prevent progress, or be seen as an advantage.

Difficulty in the workplace may stem from the undervaluation of emotional aspects.

Rejection of emotions has sometimes fostered a closer, more communicative atmosphere that values appreciation, emotional legitimacy, and linkages to just causes, including those pursued by feminists.

The article does not intend to define an ideal feminist organizational model.

Instead, its focus is on underexplored aspects of pyramid structures, and their role in building societies and states.

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Content: Countdown to Expo 2020 Dubai
The new Maslow area.
Anyone who has read a little in psychology will read about the most famous model in psychology, the pyramid of Abraham Maslow for the psychological needs of the individual.
Maslua defines an individual ’ s needs in the form of a pyramid that starts from the bottom up.
He starts from the first to the least priority and his message is in this pyramid: you have to get enough of the initial need before going up to the least priority need.
The five needs are prioritized as follows: basic physical needs for food and housing; needs for psychological, health and family security; social needs and a sense of belonging through friends and marriage; the need for appreciation, respect and self-confidence; the need to achieve outstanding achievement and self-fulfillment by reaching one ’ s highest potential.
This pyramid has been used in many aspects of life, for example: marketing in target market analysis, management in organizational behavior, technology in building products.
What we are interested in in this article is to identify an aspect that is not always addressed in the use of this pyramid and the aspect of building societies and states.
You can use the Maslua pyramid to determine where the state administration is in this pyramid?
The more the state can achieve sufficiency in the concerns of its society from the first need and then raise the concerns of its society to the highest levels of excellence, innovation and self-realization, the state is closer to the advancement of the human soul.
You can see how far this country has come by listening to the leadership ’ s speeches.
If their recurring concern is food or safety, they have not achieved much for their people yet.
But if the speeches are ambitious towards the future, excellence, innovation and achievement, know that this leadership is “a blessing and a beacon of hope for the people of the region in which you live. ”
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Organizations that fail to address basic concerns like food or safety have generally achieved little.

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Content: Countdown to Expo 2020 Dubai
The new Maslow area.
Anyone who has read a little in psychology will read about the most famous model in psychology, the pyramid of Abraham Maslow for the psychological needs of the individual.
Maslua defines an individual ’ s needs in the form of a pyramid that starts from the bottom up.
He starts from the first to the least priority and his message is in this pyramid: you have to get enough of the initial need before going up to the least priority need.
The five needs are prioritized as follows: basic physical needs for food and housing; needs for psychological, health and family security; social needs and a sense of belonging through friends and marriage; the need for appreciation, respect and self-confidence; the need to achieve outstanding achievement and self-fulfillment by reaching one ’ s highest potential.
This pyramid has been used in many aspects of life, for example: marketing in target market analysis, management in organizational behavior, technology in building products.
What we are interested in in this article is to identify an aspect that is not always addressed in the use of this pyramid and the aspect of building societies and states.
You can use the Maslua pyramid to determine where the state administration is in this pyramid?
The more the state can achieve sufficiency in the concerns of its society from the first need and then raise the concerns of its society to the highest levels of excellence, innovation and self-realization, the state is closer to the advancement of the human soul.
You can see how far this country has come by listening to the leadership ’ s speeches.
If their recurring concern is food or safety, they have not achieved much for their people yet.
But if the speeches are ambitious towards the future, excellence, innovation and achievement, know that this leadership is “a blessing and a beacon of hope for the people of the region in which you live. ”
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Effective time management involves prioritizing tasks by importance and categorizing them accordingly.

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Content: Conditions and Prioritization
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Do not think that favorable conditions may bring you success, and likewise do not count that bad conditions have anything to do with your stumbling and failure.
Yes, the circumstances surrounding us are very important, and they help, but they have never been the standard for success or failure, always required for innovation, excellence and excellence other standards of work, learning and patience.
John Milton, a 17th-century English poet and scholar, said: “Circumstances rarely help great people. ”
Indeed, this is a reality, and if we study the history books and biographies, you will find that circumstances have often been an obstacle and a stumbling block for these great men, and yet they have overcome and overcome them.
Be one of those great people with your vision and knowledge of where to start and what your aspirations and goals are, and do not pay attention to any circumstances that go through you.
In the face of the accumulated burdens of life and the increasing responsibilities in our lives, especially with the technological development and revolution in the field of communications, which contributed to the transfer of work and tasks to be a permanent and continuous part of our day.
Thus, the tasks of working with us on our mobile phones without being restricted to working hours, which means increasing pressure and a sense of non-achievement, and even frustration at the speed of passing hours without effectiveness and achievements.
Hence the need to learn the concept of time management, and the need to know the necessary skills in this field has increased.
Students in the fields of management sciences are aware and aware that the methods and skills of time management have become an important part of the march of the person who seeks success, but they emphasize the importance of this aspect, especially in reducing the tension that is generated and prepared as a result of the daily pressures that surround us.
Time management skills mean learning to focus on getting things done that are important and then less important and so on, and that means knowing how to judge each task and find its classification and where to place it.
Without a doubt, this will lead to achievement and a sense of positive utilization of working hours.
Most importantly, it will give us a vital and important balance between job tasks, family times and various social activities.
We have experienced and known the results of work without prioritization, without time management, and we have observed the chaos and loss of many very important tasks and tasks, as well as the cracks in the family as a result of their neglect and neglect of raising children.
To learn time management, a skill we urgently need in every detail of our lives.
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This approach is believed to enhance achievement and create a sense of productive time use.

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Content: Conditions and Prioritization
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Do not think that favorable conditions may bring you success, and likewise do not count that bad conditions have anything to do with your stumbling and failure.
Yes, the circumstances surrounding us are very important, and they help, but they have never been the standard for success or failure, always required for innovation, excellence and excellence other standards of work, learning and patience.
John Milton, a 17th-century English poet and scholar, said: “Circumstances rarely help great people. ”
Indeed, this is a reality, and if we study the history books and biographies, you will find that circumstances have often been an obstacle and a stumbling block for these great men, and yet they have overcome and overcome them.
Be one of those great people with your vision and knowledge of where to start and what your aspirations and goals are, and do not pay attention to any circumstances that go through you.
In the face of the accumulated burdens of life and the increasing responsibilities in our lives, especially with the technological development and revolution in the field of communications, which contributed to the transfer of work and tasks to be a permanent and continuous part of our day.
Thus, the tasks of working with us on our mobile phones without being restricted to working hours, which means increasing pressure and a sense of non-achievement, and even frustration at the speed of passing hours without effectiveness and achievements.
Hence the need to learn the concept of time management, and the need to know the necessary skills in this field has increased.
Students in the fields of management sciences are aware and aware that the methods and skills of time management have become an important part of the march of the person who seeks success, but they emphasize the importance of this aspect, especially in reducing the tension that is generated and prepared as a result of the daily pressures that surround us.
Time management skills mean learning to focus on getting things done that are important and then less important and so on, and that means knowing how to judge each task and find its classification and where to place it.
Without a doubt, this will lead to achievement and a sense of positive utilization of working hours.
Most importantly, it will give us a vital and important balance between job tasks, family times and various social activities.
We have experienced and known the results of work without prioritization, without time management, and we have observed the chaos and loss of many very important tasks and tasks, as well as the cracks in the family as a result of their neglect and neglect of raising children.
To learn time management, a skill we urgently need in every detail of our lives.
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Mastering time management is considered essential in all life aspects.

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Content: Conditions and Prioritization
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Do not think that favorable conditions may bring you success, and likewise do not count that bad conditions have anything to do with your stumbling and failure.
Yes, the circumstances surrounding us are very important, and they help, but they have never been the standard for success or failure, always required for innovation, excellence and excellence other standards of work, learning and patience.
John Milton, a 17th-century English poet and scholar, said: “Circumstances rarely help great people. ”
Indeed, this is a reality, and if we study the history books and biographies, you will find that circumstances have often been an obstacle and a stumbling block for these great men, and yet they have overcome and overcome them.
Be one of those great people with your vision and knowledge of where to start and what your aspirations and goals are, and do not pay attention to any circumstances that go through you.
In the face of the accumulated burdens of life and the increasing responsibilities in our lives, especially with the technological development and revolution in the field of communications, which contributed to the transfer of work and tasks to be a permanent and continuous part of our day.
Thus, the tasks of working with us on our mobile phones without being restricted to working hours, which means increasing pressure and a sense of non-achievement, and even frustration at the speed of passing hours without effectiveness and achievements.
Hence the need to learn the concept of time management, and the need to know the necessary skills in this field has increased.
Students in the fields of management sciences are aware and aware that the methods and skills of time management have become an important part of the march of the person who seeks success, but they emphasize the importance of this aspect, especially in reducing the tension that is generated and prepared as a result of the daily pressures that surround us.
Time management skills mean learning to focus on getting things done that are important and then less important and so on, and that means knowing how to judge each task and find its classification and where to place it.
Without a doubt, this will lead to achievement and a sense of positive utilization of working hours.
Most importantly, it will give us a vital and important balance between job tasks, family times and various social activities.
We have experienced and known the results of work without prioritization, without time management, and we have observed the chaos and loss of many very important tasks and tasks, as well as the cracks in the family as a result of their neglect and neglect of raising children.
To learn time management, a skill we urgently need in every detail of our lives.
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Attaching life changes to specific dates, like birthdays or New Year's, is believed by some to increase the likelihood of success.

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Content: Linking life changes to specific dates.
An important strategy with conditions
Some believe that tying a goal or decision to a particular day or time of year, such as a birthday, New Year's Day, or the first day of spring, increases the chance of success.
Science refers to this phenomenon as the “new beginning effect. ”
Special events or time stations, such as the New Year, usually make people think about their lives differently, enumerate what they have achieved and think about what they want, and inspire them to make new decisions and set goals for a better life, such as exercising more, organizing their spending, or finding a new life partner or job.
New beginnings contribute to the redefinition of personal identity and enhance the desire to achieve goals and dreams, and provide opportunities for learning and personal growth, by stepping out of comfort zones and facing new challenges, where individuals can expand their knowledge and skills and develop themselves, but decision-making alone is not enough.
How can I start again?
With each time station, a person makes decisions and goals that they wish to achieve at a specific time.
According to Psychologycompass, there are a number of points that help to start again, including:
• Target identification and tracking
If a person fails to locate from their target, they will not have a clear understanding of the route or direction.
Performance measures are part of the goal setting process but are overlooked by many, although they are important and necessary to measure actual movement towards the goal.
Some simple methods can be used to track personal progress towards the goal, including:
Timeline: To avoid excessive preoccupation with personal evaluation, it is necessary to give the same person periodic time to take notes or check the level of progress.
It is advisable to set the phone for the ticket with a weekly appointment to record notes and check the level of achievement.
Keep it simple: When tracking personal performance, it ’ s best to keep things as simple as possible.
A person can create a file to record daily performance with a simple "yes or no" answer rather than having to write an entire paragraph or enter multiple variables each time they track.
Asking for help: Tracking performance in person can be a problem for some.
If a person finds it difficult to keep track of their performance metrics consistently, asking someone they trust to keep track of them, be it a friend or family member, may also improve their likelihood of doing well.
• Thinking in a smooth way
You have to think in a smooth and continuous way to keep your successes going.
If success is achieved, it is important to maintain it and make a continuous effort to do so.
After doing a good job, the self must be constantly reminded of what has been achieved so that it remains an incentive to continue to succeed.
• Determine when to rely on a new start
A person may make a decision to reach a specific goal and fail to achieve it, and here he must not give up but make the decision again, and determine when to start chasing his goal.
One of the best ways to make a fresh start is to review the decision one month after it has been made.
When a person after a follow-up review within a month finds that there is a lot of default and lack of achievement or failure, they have to stick to new beginnings and narrow their focus until they reach the goal in a specified period of time.
• Small beginnings
Not all beginnings have to be big or radical, like buying a house, getting a new job, or moving to another country.
A person can start making small decisions on the day of their birth, or with the start of the new year.
These small beginnings may vary from changing negative habits such as quitting smoking, practicing good habits such as reading a daily book, maintaining a healthy diet, or others, and although they are small beginnings, they may also need a strategy to follow.
The Washington Post recommends a number of simple ways to get fresh starts, including:
Put a notebook on the bedside table and use it to jot down all thoughts and concerns before bed.
• Obligation to schedule a medical appointment to check on health.
• Planning a trip, a person feels happy just to plan a pleasant vacation.
Set aside a specific time per day to read a part of a book and set a date for completion.
• Organize passwords for all subscribed applications and remove the unused application.
• Research and read about financial planning applications.
Set aside time to practice meditation in order to clear your mind and renew your energy to set big goals in life.
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Psychologycompass suggests strategies for fresh starts, including flexible thinking and optimal timing.

One recommended method is to review a decision's progress one month after making it.

New beginnings do not have to be dramatic, as even small changes can be tied to meaningful dates.

For example, one could schedule daily reading and set a book completion deadline.

A study at Arabian Gulf University led by Abdulrahman Ahmed examined change management in Saudi family businesses.

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Content: Abdulrahman Ahmed, a graduate student at the Arab French Institute at Arabian Gulf University, discussed the results of a study he prepared with a research team composed of graduate students: Amin Shirazi, Farah Al-Shaheel, Hind Al-Hussein and Abdulmohsen Al-Muqrin. The study was entitled "Analysis of Change Practices and Change Management in Family Owned Companies in Saudi Arabia".
Abdulrahman Ahmed said that the reason for choosing this topic was based on the consultation of classmates and their consensus on the importance of studying and diagnosing the reality of family businesses in Saudi Arabia, especially as the figures indicate that about 538,000 family-owned companies in Saudi Arabia according to the National Center for Family Business (NCFB).
“Family businesses make up 63% of total projects in Saudi Arabia, contributing $216 billion to the Kingdom ’ s GDP, accounting for 66% of GDP, and providing 76% of jobs in the private sector, ” the researchers said.
According to recent official figures issued in 2021, these projects are the anchors of the economy, as change and change management are important because the more flexible institutions may outperform the competition and thus may outperform them in performance.
The aim of the research is to provide a comprehensive review and research on current change management practices in family-owned companies in Saudi Arabia, then analyze and understand the type of changes that are occurring and their characteristics to determine the success factors that make change management effective in these organizations, along with determining whether there is a conceptual framework for change management adopted by these organizations.
This research aims to find the methodology of family businesses in dealing with change and how it helps them to continue over the years through their evolution through change and adaptation to the market.
The researchers who used more than one model of change management during the discussion stressed that the results of this research will benefit other family businesses in Saudi Arabia and possibly the GCC region because of the relevant nature of the business environment.
The research concluded that the motivations for change come either from within companies for their desire to expand or from abroad to align with the changes, whether due to laws and regulations such as increasing the proportion of the national workforce and empowering women according to the Kingdom ’ s Vision 2030, or managing global crises such as COVID-19.
The results stressed the need to adopt a purposeful and innovative strategy for change and growth, and that positive change is achieved when senior management and employees at all levels are partners in the desired change. Therefore, most companies promote change to employees before applying it.
The researchers explained that some companies issue a complete list when deciding to change, where they start by educating employees and promoting change among them and making them the basis, and then start from the stage of implementing change until it becomes common among the majority.
As for resistance to change, the family companies advised to meet the employees who resist and reject the change and take the reasons and try to analyze them in order to start modifying the decisions that meet rejection and resistance in addition to persuasion efforts.
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Social transformation is described as the result of political, economic, and other influencing factors, which may direct or accelerate change, with impacts extending globally.

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Content: Blessing the Sword
Social transformations are driven by various factors, political and economic.
Some factors trigger the course of change, and some determine its direction or affect its speed.
State policies are often said to be a powerful driver of change, and economic and market shifts accelerate mobility among social classes and contribute to changing the prevailing culture.
Policy shifts on a global scale are also influential, especially those occurring in the most connected or influential societies.
We know, for example, that the transformations of American society are rapidly moving into the international arena and becoming a global phenomenon.
But the impact is not limited to this country, but we set an example for the extent of its impact on a global scale.
This is not the kind of public discourse that is said in the context of “sideburns ”, it is the result of in-depth and field scientific studies on transformations that have taken place repeatedly in more than one country.
The point is that change is a fact of life that cannot be prevented, and that it occurs through the influence of many factors, and therefore it is not wise to confront, resist or imagine the possibility of stopping social transformation.
What happens when society starts to change?
Let ’ s give an example of a young man from a poor rural family, who went to school and then university and graduated with a high degree, and got a prestigious job: what is his social classification now (in what class), how will people treat him, how will he look at himself and how people treat him.
Some readers may recall Maslow ’ s Pyramid, which states that in a state of absolute poverty, a person will be too busy to continue living.
If he has enough of this, he will be preoccupied with safety as a psychological need directly related to life and dignity.
With his success at this stage, he will turn to what Abraham Maslow called social needs, most notably the need to identify with others; that is, the recognition by those around him that he is equal to them, not inferior to them, and that he deserves the same status that the existing social system offers to all its members.
Then comes the search for appreciation, and then self-realization.
This is an example of an individual, which I think many of us have noticed one day, but there are periods of time in which large-scale transformations, in the whole of society, are reflected in the behavior of all or most individuals.
I suspect that many Saudis, between the ages of 40 and 60, went through this transformation, or witnessed it in the people of their neighbors or acquaintances, in the 1970s, when Saudi society underwent profound transformations, influenced by the first and second economic development plans (1971-1980).
The same happened after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in late 1990.
When you look at a broad spectrum of society, you will see that today many of the most senior figures come from economically or socially modest families, but their status has increased as a result of their education, higher incomes, social roles, or job positions.
Here we are not talking about a number of individuals, but about a general phenomenon that we can, without reservation, consider as a model of social transformation.
A post-change society, in all or most of its members, carries different emotions than in the past, and this generates reactions that may not always be favorable.
The desire of individuals, especially of the new generation, to be equal with others may be seen by the older generation as a rebellion against the prevailing value system.
Some of them may be inclined to be strict in dealing with young people ’ s expressions of themselves and their desires.
On the other hand, young people may face this situation with angry reactions.
This and that attitude are the most prominent manifestations of the so-called generational conflict, which is essentially a cultural conflict and an expression of cultural transformation.

Adoption of digital methods in management led to a focus on efficiency but often neglected people.

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Content: After management scientists succeeded in using digital science and new concepts, such as “the best way to do business, ” they discovered that they were busy with machines and tools, and people were not given their due.
The individual is at the center of the administrative process.
Early research began in the early 20th century, accumulating into the science of organizational behavior (OB).
In short, scientists have been able to study the behavior and attitudes of employees in organizations towards a particular problem.
This cannot be done without the use of the principles of psychology and scientific tools.
This is why the largest companies and factories in history welcome researchers to systematically observe, distribute questionnaires, and understand personalities and their diversity.
They also found that workers ’ behaviors often change, depending on the situation, rather than the handful of money they receive, and the same happens with leaders.
Increasingly, it is becoming clear that the organizational behavior of individuals is influenced by the prevailing organizational culture.
There are environments that encourage innovation and develop a sense of innovation, and others where what remains of the enthusiasm for giving is extinguished.
However modern the equipment and tools may be, they do not substitute for the behavior of individuals.
When they feel that they are in a repellent environment, or their dedication is not appreciated, their initiatives and efforts fade, and the rate of job quitting rises.
It is an indicator - if it rises - gives an indication of the absence of healthy and stimulating atmosphere to give.
The research also provided officials with scientific solutions to diagnose the motivations behind the behavior of employees, and enabled officials to be able to guide the behavior in a way that serves the interests of the organization.
All of this has been instrumental in the success of the process of change – often met with stiff opposition from workers – which has facilitated major mergers to this day.
If we understand the motives, it is easier to meet the requirements of the owners.
Perhaps the most famous research that led the world to pay attention to the role of the era of behavior was the Western Electric Factory, a series of Hawthorne studies on productivity conducted between 1924 and 1932, in which Harvard industrial management professor Elton Mayo and his colleagues discovered that improved lighting at the plant had an effect on improved worker productivity, as did changing work hours and rest times.
They then discovered that productivity rose because they felt the officials with the researchers were interested in them.
This has given rise to a popular term in management, the Hawthorne Effect, from which numerous research has emerged on job satisfaction, active engagement, resistance to change, motivational effects, and more.
They discovered a central, perhaps unprecedented, issue: that social behavior, group norms, and behaviors had a greater impact on workers ’ output than fiscal stimulus did, a paradigm shift that dispelled the widespread belief that workers could satisfy them or improve their performance with financial inducements.
The bottom line: Management has contributed to our development, including the classical, quantitative, and behavioral era that was built on Hawthorne ’ s studies, after which we have formed the science of organizational behavior that profoundly enriched the world of management, and changed the course of its decisions and results when dealing with millions of people around the world.
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No amount of advanced technology can substitute for positive human behavior.

Understanding motives is essential for meeting stakeholder needs.

Cognitive psychology is applied to study customers’ responses to commercials, investigating factors that affect recollection and purchasing decisions.

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Content: Psychology and its branches: a tool for understanding, interpreting, controlling and predicting human behavior
Psychology is a science that studies human behavior, and seeks to achieve three main objectives: understanding and interpreting behavior: understanding the causes of behavior and explaining it in light of the factors affecting it, predicting behavior: the ability to predict behavior under certain circumstances, and behavior control: the ability to control and direct behavior towards certain goals.
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Understanding and Interpreting Behavior:
For example, a child's aggressive behavior can be explained by genetic factors such as a history of violence in the family, environmental factors such as the child's exposure to violence or abuse, or psychological factors such as the presence of emotional or social problems.
Predicting behavior:
Psychology seeks to predict behavior by understanding and interpreting the factors that affect it; for example, it can be predicted that a hardworking student will score high on the exam, or that a person suffering from depression will suffer from sleep problems.
We have been able to predict the fate of the child who lives in the midst of these circumstances and we must prepare for the upbringing of our children and help them face and overcome those circumstances and create a good and suitable environment for their upbringing.
Control and Control of Behavior:
Psychology seeks to control behavior by controlling the factors that affect it; for example, a child's aggressive behavior can be controlled by modifying the environment around him or offering him psychological treatment.
Examples of application:
Understanding and Interpreting: Adolescent behavior that tends to be socially isolated can be understood and interpreted as a result of genetic factors such as having a history of isolation in the family, environmental factors such as being bullied, or psychological factors such as having emotional or social problems.
Prediction: It can be predicted that a person with social anxiety disorder will have difficulty speaking in public.
Adjustment: The behavior of a person suffering from drug addiction can be adjusted through psychotherapy or rehabilitation programs.
Branches of Psychology:
Psychology has many branches and fields, including theoretical branches and applied branches, and each of these branches will be addressed.
First: Theoretical branches:
These branches are concerned with general theoretical issues in science, i.e. aimed at achieving theoretical purposes, and these branches are concerned with revealing the principles and laws that govern behavior and explain it.
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General Psychology
It is the science that aims to reveal the laws and principles to explain the normal human behavior and this section is the basis of all other branches of psychology, which provides general information about the life of the individual, and the general foundations of human behavior and its topics motivation, perception, remembering, learning, personality and intelligence...
and so on.
Examples of application:
• Motivation study: General psychology can be applied to the study of students ’ motivation to learn, by conducting empirical studies to determine factors that affect motivation to learn, such as rewards and punishments, desired goals, and social factors.
• Cognition study: General psychology can be applied to the study of customers' perception of commercials, through empirical studies to determine the factors that affect the recall of advertisements and their impact on the purchase decision.
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Social Psychology:
It is concerned with the study of the behavior of individuals and groups in different social situations as well as the various forms of social interaction that occur during these situations, as well as the study of the cultural and social effects that occur on behavior, language, communication, attitudes, opinions, personal relations, the psychology of advertising, public opinion and social normalization and its impact on individual attitudes and leadership styles.
Examples of application:
Social impact study: Social psychology can be applied to the study of the impact of commercials on buying behavior, by conducting empirical studies to determine how advertising persuades consumers to buy products.
The study of group behavior: Social psychology can be applied to the study of the causes of the outbreak of social disorders, through empirical studies to identify the factors that trigger negative emotions in individuals and drive them to participate in acts of violence.
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Gay psychology:
It is a science that is concerned with the study of abnormal behavior, mental and psychological diseases, weakness of the mind and the behavior of unusual individuals and recognizes the causes of these behaviors while trying to develop and provide principles and foundations for treatment and prevention.
Examples of application:
Diagnosis of mental disorders: Gay psychology can be applied to the diagnosis of mental disorders through clinical interviews and psychological tests.
Treatment of mental disorders: Gay psychology can be applied to the treatment of mental disorders, through the use of various psychological treatments, such as cognitive behavioral therapy and psychoanalysis.
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Psychology of Difference:
It is concerned with the study of differences between individuals and groups in intelligence, personality, aptitudes and special talents, and shows the extent to which they differ among themselves, as well as the changes that occur in the individual in different circumstances.
Examples of application:
Career Guidance: The psychology of difference in career guidance can be applied by conducting psychological tests to determine the abilities and skills of the individual, and directing him to the profession that suits him.
• Special Education: Differential psychology can be applied in special education, through the development of educational and pedagogical programs suitable for children with special needs.
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Developmental Psychology (Ascension)
It is the science that is concerned with the study of the growth and development of human through the stages of his life, that is, from the beginning of fertilization inside the mother 's womb and the growth and completion of the fetus, then birth, then the infant, then childhood, then adolescence, then adulthood, and then old age. To guide and adjust the behavior of the individual to achieve the best possible growth under the conditions and possibilities available.
Examples of application:
Child care: Developmental psychology can be applied to child care by providing appropriate health, educational and psychological care for children at different stages of development.
• School education: Developmental psychology can be applied in school education, through the development of educational curricula and teaching methods appropriate to the abilities and needs of students at different ages.
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Comparative Psychology:
It is the science that compares the behavior of the child to the behavior of the adolescent and the behavior of the normal behavior to the behavior of the homosexual behavior, the behavior of the primitive man to the behavior of the civilized man and the behavior of the human behavior to the behavior of the animal in order to reveal the similarities and differences between the psychological functions and colors of behavior in all these types.
Examples of application:
• Understanding human behavior: Comparative psychology can be applied to understanding human behavior by studying animal behavior and comparing human behavior to animal behavior.
Drug and Therapeutic Development: Comparative psychology can be applied to the development of drugs and psychotherapies, by studying animal behavior and identifying factors that affect mental health.
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Physiological Psychology:
It is concerned with the study of the physiological bases of behavior such as the study of the nervous system and its functions, the glandular system and its role in the behavior of individuals.
Examples of application:
Understanding psychological disorders: Physiological psychology can be applied to understanding psychological disorders by studying the physiological factors that contribute to the occurrence of these disorders.
Psychophysiology can be applied in the development of psychological therapies, through the use of medications or other physiological interventions to treat mental disorders.
Branches of Applied Psychology:
It is concerned with the method of applying the findings of the research in the theoretical branches to one of the fields of human activity, that is, it aims to achieve practical experimental purposes, that is, it aims to achieve practical purposes and solve practical problems, and it benefits from the results of research and psychological theories for various practical purposes.
The most important of these branches are:
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Educational Psychology (Educational):
It is one of the branches of psychology that is concerned with the study of problems that arise in the field of education, which concern students, teachers, subjects, methods of learning, theories and the most important conditions of good learning.
It is concerned with the application of research results and theories of psychology in the field of education, and it is concerned with the discovery of students' talents, readiness, tendencies and abilities and guide them to the best to ensure balanced growth in order to raise good citizens.
Examples of application:
• Use IQ tests to identify students who need special help.
• Developing educational programs that suit the different abilities and needs of students.
• Qualifying the teacher to deal with people with special needs.
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Industrial Psychology:
Industrial psychology aims to raise the productive efficiency of workers by focusing on achieving healthy human relations between workers and each other and between workers and management with attention to creating appropriate physical conditions for them, and working to solve various problems in the field of industry and production in a scientific and human way....
Examples of application:
• Use personality tests to select the right employees for different jobs.
• Develop training programs to improve the skills of employees.
• Create positive and healthy work environments.
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Commercial Psychology:
It is concerned with studying the motivations and needs of consumers and estimating their psychological tendencies towards the products in the market. It is also concerned with the selection of sales workers and examines how the seller affects the buyer. It also studies the best means of advertising and information about goods and the best ways of supply to attract consumers and complete the sale process.
And so on.
Examples of application:
• Use market studies to understand consumer needs.
• Developing effective marketing strategies.
• Improve customer experience.
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Criminal Psychology:
This branch is the applied aspect of homosexual psychology, which is useful in the investigation procedures and to ensure the correctness of the statements of criminals in the ways of measuring emotions, associative experiences, lie tests, psychoanalysis and others.
Examples of application:
• The use of psychological interviews to evaluate the accused.
• Development of rehabilitation programs for offenders.
• Assistance in crime prevention.
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Military Psychology:
It is concerned with the study of the abilities, capabilities, readiness and personality traits of soldiers, emotional and mood to put the right soldier in the right place, i.e. distributing soldiers on types of weapons and works that suit their abilities, capabilities, characteristics and readiness, as well as excluding individuals who are not suitable for serving the army or distributing them to work appropriate to their circumstances. Research and study the qualities required in the commander at various levels, by holding psychological tests to select the most suitable individuals for leadership positions in order to ensure the implementation of military plans in full confidentiality and without hesitation.
Examples of application:
• Choose the right soldiers for different jobs.
• Develop training programs to improve the skills of soldiers.
• Improve the morale of soldiers.
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Counseling Psychology:
It is the science that is concerned with helping individuals to solve their problems on their own in all areas of their working, educational, family and other lives depending on their abilities and capabilities. This is by providing them with guidance, providing them with information, encouraging them to express their feelings in an appropriate manner and conducting tests that help them guide them educationally, professionally and psychologically.
Examples of application:
• Helps male and female students to choose the best university specialization.
• Helping individuals solve personal and emotional problems.
• Develop stress management skills.
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Clinical Psychology:
It is the science that uses psychological principles and psychological information in the diagnosis and treatment of individual mismatches, children ’ s problems, psychosomatic diseases, psychological and mental diseases, adolescent problems, behavior disorders, psychological guidance and counseling, language and speech disorders...
and so on.
Examples of application:
• Diagnosis of mental disorders.
• Treatment of mental disorders.
• Helping individuals recover from psychological trauma.
Conclusion:
Psychology is characterized by its multiplicity and diversity, reflecting the breadth of this science and the diversity of its interests, and through these branches, psychology seeks to understand man and his behavior in various aspects of life, from general behavior to abnormal behavior, and from individual behavior to social behavior.

Psychology further informs educational practice, talent identification, and employee selection through personality testing.

It guides training development for different professions, including the military, and is used in mental health treatment.

A study analyzed over 120 people with moderate to severe depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms, suggesting that helping others can improve wellbeing.

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Content: Psychology confirms that charity helps to recover from depression
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Recent research has shown that good or charitable work rewards its owner first, because its performance may be particularly beneficial for those with symptoms of depression or anxiety.
There ’ s no doubt that helping others can make us feel good, but according to new research from Ohio State University, doing charity or kindness may be especially helpful for those with symptoms of depression or anxiety.
Study co-author David Craig said: “Social engagement is one of life ’ s most relevant components of happiness.
Doing good deeds seems to be one of the best ways to strengthen these ties. ”
Professor of Psychology Jennifer Giavins added: “We often think that people with depression have enough problems, so we don ’ t want to burden them with asking them to help others.
But these results contradict that.
Doing nice things that help people and focusing on the needs of others can help people with depression and anxiety feel better about themselves. ”
During the study, the team analysed more than 120 people with moderate to severe symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress.
Two groups of techniques most commonly used in cognitive behavioral therapy were identified, while the third group was directed to perform three acts of charity or kindness daily over two days of the week.
This included helping friends bake biscuits, offering leadership to deliver someone and leaving loving messages to roommates.
After 10 weeks, the researchers found that participants in the three groups showed increased life satisfaction and reduced symptoms of depression and anxiety.
“These findings are encouraging because they suggest that all three study interventions are effective in reducing distress and improving satisfaction.
But gentle acts still show an advantage over both social activities and cognitive reassessment by making people feel more connected to others, which is an important part of improving and feeling well. ”
The full study results were published in the Journal of Positive Psychology.

The concept of intuition is described as an often-overlooked factor in decision-making.

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Content: Intuition is the missing link in our decisions.
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There is a neglected part of our circle of decisions that is often underestimated by some: “intuition. ”
In management science, when we delve deeper into training leaders and managers on the mechanism of decision making and its details, we stop at a very important section, which is the “intuition ” of the decision maker.
It is part of the science of decision-making and has its origins, justifications and methods.
Before that, let us remember that the stages of decision-making are based on basic elements: observation, problem identification, search for solutions and alternatives, evaluate them, and then try to experiment with solutions on a smaller scale before proceeding to implement some decisions.
These are the decision-making steps.
Then comes the question of intuition.
According to Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, “Most decisions have to be made after 70% of the information, so if you wait for 90% of the information, you ’ ll often be slow to make a decision.
In both cases, you should be adept at detecting and correcting wrong decisions.
If you are skilled at correcting the course, making the wrong decision will be less costly than you expect, while making decisions slowly will be more costly, ” HBR reported.
So intuition, is something that comes after collecting information, and doing our best to understand the dimensions of the decision and all the available options, here the intuition intervenes to give the decision a final push, the owner hopes to be in the right direction.
Researcher Laura Huang followed the situation of about 90 companies selected by investors on the basis of their ability to succeed, based on their instinctive intuition, and derived a set of characteristics of investors who can distinguish successful companies from others, "recognizing that intuition is not separate from objective information, and that intuition should not be impulsive, fast or driven by pure emotion but based on accuracy and experience.
This is according to an article published by Harvard Business Review researcher Laura Huang.
And people have a lot of guts.
There are those who base their intuition on superficial information, or after marginalizing the opinions of those around them, no matter how valid, based on years of experience!
There are those who have spent 20 years but in the balance of experience have wasted their time in a routine work that has not deepened their abilities and skills.
He was deceived by the “resonant ” positions he held either by seniority (the disease of modern management) or by the parachute jump in the house of competencies, who exposed the fragility of this new arrival at the first problem he faced.
There are those who take a lot of time before putting their “spices ” or“ table salt ” (intuition) on the final decision.
There are also those who forget that delegating decisions does not absolve them of responsibility.
It is my right as an administrator to challenge my subordinate ’ s intuition if he does not base his decision on good things.
Sometimes he had to accept those decisions, in order to give them the chance to prove their experience or the depth of their intuition that supposedly came after the decision-making stages.
In an interview, Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate in economic psychology, was asked: If you have one message you want to convey to people from your research and decision-making books, what is that message?
He said without hesitation: I will ask them not to rush into their intuition before collecting all the available facts.
One of the most important challenges facing people at work is the official who is very reluctant to make decisions, and is afraid of diligence or showing his intuition, which is a natural issue in the disparity of people ’ s abilities, but at the same time must surround himself with competent people to support him when making fateful decisions.
As long as the “shadow of fear ” hangs over the decision-maker, he is unlikely to make any significant changes to his work.
Fear is the biggest obstacle to making a decision, let alone trying to “do ” intuition in whatever form it may be!
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People are acknowledged as having considerable courage or "guts."

In recent years, the popularity and profitability of multi-level marketing (MLM) companies have shown significant fluctuations, influenced by global economic trends and shifting employment landscapes.

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Content: Waiting to be anxious?
Making use of the KPMG effect makes it easier to succeed
Health Care Network
2022-08-12 20: 31: 00
[Health and Medical Network / Reporter Zeng Zhenghao reported] The university designated examination ended, and candidates waited in anxiety for the transcripts, chose to fill in the volunteer, and then waited with a worried heart for the list to be released.
In fact, every stage of life has an amazing similarity to the exam: work hard, expect results.
Using the knowledge of psychology – the Pygmalion effects – makes it easier to achieve success.
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"The KPMG effect" is believed to be true, but not true.
Ho Ying-jui, head of the psychology department at Sun Yat-sen Medical University, explains that the Karmalon effect is mainly a psychological phenomenon in which self-prophecies are realized, and if they believe that they will succeed, they will succeed; if they believe that they will fail, they will eventually fail.
He further explained that, according to legend, there was a prince of the Aegean Sea, Pygmalion, who fell in love with the maiden Galatea carved out of marble.
So he asked the angel to give Galatea life, and was sincerely touched by the prince, and the angel finally gave Galatea, and fell in love with the prince, sharing a beautiful love.
Strong motor and positive emotions, and finally achieve the goal.
This is also true in the real world, as long as there is a very strong "motivation", after hard work, it is easy to achieve success.
This phenomenon seems simple, but it has a very solid mechanism of neuroscience, emotional psychology, and social psychology.
"Motivation" is an idea, a desire, good motivation (such as the pursuit of success, the pursuit of excellence), can lead to enthusiasm, optimism, persistence and other positive psychological states, can also cause happy emotions, such as the thought of victory in the hope of not feeling happy.
Under the blessing of positive emotions, motivation is easy to transform into a persevering and enduring action. In this case, even if you encounter difficult challenges, you can respond with a positive attitude, showing a willingness to do, happy attitude, and finally overcome the difficulties to achieve the goal.
Pleasant emotions affect the people around them to achieve what they want.
Finally, He Yinrui said, "KPMARON effect" in the strong motivation, cause positive happy emotions, positive emotions let themselves with a pleasant expression, their happy expression will let the people around them, unconsciously also show a pleasant expression, and further let him also feel happy.
When the people around you in your life are in a good mood when they meet you, then there is no challenge that the world cannot complete.
This is how to make good use of the KPMARON effect of psychology to achieve what you want.
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The economic instability following the COVID-19 pandemic led to greater financial pressure and unemployment, causing many individuals, especially young people in regions like China, to turn to alternative income sources, including MLMs.

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Content: Our 2023 ｜ Can the depressed young Chinese who are caught up in the collapse of the employment struggle choose their way of happiness?
Author: Chen Jinan
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2023 is about to pass, for Chinese youth, this year is destined to be a complicated year: entering the post-epidemic era, the economy has not opened a red plate, in the process of growth to witness the rapid growth of the Chinese economy, they officially stepped out of society, but found that the "most difficult graduation season" is like a tight curse, the huge job demand and limited employment opportunities mismatch, so that the youth unemployment rate has repeatedly hit new high. The focus on the issue has moved to a new level.
Different generations of Chinese youth groups face differences including employment, marriage, urban and rural and social mobility. With the development of the times, the concepts of "full-time children" and "slow employment" have emerged. Injury.
Graduation Unemployment Becomes Normal Scholars: Difficult or Lasting 10 Years
This year, 11.58 million university graduates in the Mainland urgently need to find a job, a record number of people. However, the impact of the strict quarantine and control policy last year still affects the mainland job market, and many industries have not yet fully recovered after the epidemic, and there are not enough jobs available for college graduates this year.
In fact, as early as the end of last year, the recruitment website 51job survey of 100 Chinese employers found that more than half of the respondents planned to reduce recruitment this year, which undoubtedly closed the door for jobless graduates.
This is reflected in the cold data, on July 17 this year, the National Bureau of Statistics released the first half of the economic data, compared with the overall economic situation of the recovery trend, the youth unemployment problem is still outstanding.
According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics, in June, the unemployment rate of the mainland towns was 5.2%, of which the unemployment rate of the labor force aged 16-24 and 25-59 was 21.3% and 4.1%, respectively.
It is worth noting here that the labor force survey unemployment rate of 16-24 years old has climbed to 21.3%, once again hitting a new high.
Mainland welcomes another year of "hardest graduation season". (Photo)
In the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he once specifically used a paragraph to discuss youth work, emphasizing that "the country is thriving when young people are strong, and the country is strong when young people are strong."
Liu Yuanchun, president of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and a well-known economist, pointed out: "The problem of youth unemployment is not only a cyclical problem, but a systemic problem and a trend problem."
We judge that the youth unemployment problem is likely to continue for 10 years, and will increase in the short term. If it is not properly handled, it will trigger other social problems outside the economic field, and even become a fuse for political problems. ”
On August 15 this year, the National Bureau of Statistics suddenly announced that since August, the national youth and other age groups of the town survey unemployment rate will be suspended, because "the economy and society are constantly developing and changing, statistical work needs to be constantly improved, and labor force survey statistics also need to be further improved."
This means that the youth unemployment data that has received attention from all sides is temporarily unavailable, and public opinion also doubts that the official explanation is difficult to convince the world, and for China, the youth unemployment problem will not be automatically solved with the suspension of unemployment data, which further exacerbates the trust crisis and lack of confidence is the real challenge.
The mismatch between the huge employment demand and the limited employment opportunities has caused the youth unemployment rate to reach new highs. (Xinhua News Agency)
The phenomenon of "about death" has caused the nasal acid society to pay attention to the high risk of depression in young people.
On January 28, the body of Hu Xinyu, a senior high school student at Zhiyuan Middle School in Jiangxi who had lost contact with the school since October last year, was found hanging in a bamboo forest near the school, and an official spokesman said that two paragraphs of the recording and some of Hu Xinyu's notes were clearly expressing his intention to commit suicide.
Extended reading: Hu Xinyu case _ Crying to mother before life, "want to go home" 24% of mainland teenagers have depression problems?
On the morning of February 2, Hu Xinyu ’ s disappearance and death was announced at a press conference in Lianshan County, Jiangxi Province, officially recognized as self-death. (Visual China)
On April 4, the famous Zhangjiajie Tianmen Mountain Glass Trail, four tourists jumped off a cliff to commit suicide, shocking the society.
According to the investigation, the four dead were all young people from different provinces and migrant workers, and no life intersection was found.
However, the four people planned the suicide through group chat, and the content of the suicide note is the same.
A volunteer who has experienced the pain of losing a child points out that this is typical of "Internet dating."
Later, Triple Life Weekly tweeted in the public account, “If you are looking for common ground among the four young people, the hardships brought by poverty and the ever-increasing changes may be their commonalities. ”
Extended reading: Zhangjiajie 4 tourists jumping off a cliff to kill themselves: typical "Internet death", underground organization is huge (click to enlarge view)
Therefore, this year is also a year of great concern for the overall psychological state of young people in China. In February, the "Chinese National Mental Health Development Report (2021-2022)" released by the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences showed that young people are at high risk of depression, and the detection rate of depression risk in the 18 to 24 age group reached 24.1%, which is significantly higher than that of other age groups. Significantly higher than all age groups of 35 years and above.
According to a research report published this year by the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC weekly), the suicide mortality rate in the 5 to 14 age group increased by almost 10% annually between 2010 and 2021, and the suicide rate in the 15 to 24 age group increased by 19.6% annually from 2017 to 2021.
Bloomberg reported that young people in China have long faced fierce competition for education and employment, and the record youth unemployment rate in recent years has also caused great pressure on young people.
It's all rolled up. It's all flat.
At the same time, in the face of the general environment, a series of emerging concepts and buzzwords have emerged, and since this year, "slow employment" has also been repeatedly mentioned.
The so-called slow employment, refers to the difficult to find work in the contemporary, some college students do not plan to join the workplace immediately after graduation, but temporarily choose to study, support, stay home with parents or entrepreneurial study, etc., slowly thinking about the phenomenon of life path. In mid-April, the Shanghai survey team of the National Bureau of Statistics carried out more than 4,000 fresh graduates of colleges and universities. Graduates who choose slow employment tend to have higher expectations of career planning and job conditions.
The so-called slow employment refers to the phenomenon that some college students do not plan to enter the workplace immediately after graduation.
In July this year, the central party newspaper "Economic Daily" hosted by the State Council said that although the phenomenon of "slow employment" is controversial, the word "slow employment" is not derogatory, "not non-employment, let alone lying down."
In particular, young people who actively choose "slow employment" should be differentiated and guided, and more targeted specialized skills training courses and services should be developed to enhance the ability of young people to adapt to industrial development, work needs and grass-roots employment.
At the same time, young people began to call themselves 45 ° youth, such as "lying flat" is 0 °, and the extreme "inner roll" is 90 °, then the repeated search for a foothold between lying flat or inner roll is 45 °.
Since April this year, the topics "Are you a 45-degree youth?" and "How to face a 45-degree life" have successively topped the hot search, causing many netizens to discuss.
Another new group, "full-time children", is also quietly popular in the mainland network, which is defined as a new type of out-of-work lifestyle, refers to young people out of work to live with their parents, and through paying a certain amount of labor in exchange for financial support, while maintaining learning, trying to find career goals, examination and graduate.
Extended reading: "New occupation" or "disguised gnawing old"?
Mainland "Full-time Children" Community Concerns (Click to enlarge)
Hsia Chu-chih, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Wuhan University, says that the uncertainty of "45 ° life", which does not go up or down, just happens to be in the middle, makes him think of the concept of "middle class" in the field of sociology research, which mainly refers to white-collar workers working in the city. Under this social reality, the human spirit can easily fall into exhaustion, resulting in a state of mind that is "curled up and down, lying down and not feeling well."

The growth of "full-time children" and "slow employment" concepts reflects the struggles of young people facing limited traditional job opportunities, making MLMs appealing due to their promises of flexibility, autonomy, and potential quick earnings.

Some of the world’s most prominent MLM companies include Amway, Herbalife, Avon, Mary Kay, and Nu Skin.

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Content: Waiting to be anxious?
Making use of the KPMG effect makes it easier to succeed
Health Care Network
2022-08-12 20: 31: 00
[Health and Medical Network / Reporter Zeng Zhenghao reported] The university designated examination ended, and candidates waited in anxiety for the transcripts, chose to fill in the volunteer, and then waited with a worried heart for the list to be released.
In fact, every stage of life has an amazing similarity to the exam: work hard, expect results.
Using the knowledge of psychology – the Pygmalion effects – makes it easier to achieve success.
This is an advertisement, please continue reading.
"The KPMG effect" is believed to be true, but not true.
Ho Ying-jui, head of the psychology department at Sun Yat-sen Medical University, explains that the Karmalon effect is mainly a psychological phenomenon in which self-prophecies are realized, and if they believe that they will succeed, they will succeed; if they believe that they will fail, they will eventually fail.
He further explained that, according to legend, there was a prince of the Aegean Sea, Pygmalion, who fell in love with the maiden Galatea carved out of marble.
So he asked the angel to give Galatea life, and was sincerely touched by the prince, and the angel finally gave Galatea, and fell in love with the prince, sharing a beautiful love.
Strong motor and positive emotions, and finally achieve the goal.
This is also true in the real world, as long as there is a very strong "motivation", after hard work, it is easy to achieve success.
This phenomenon seems simple, but it has a very solid mechanism of neuroscience, emotional psychology, and social psychology.
"Motivation" is an idea, a desire, good motivation (such as the pursuit of success, the pursuit of excellence), can lead to enthusiasm, optimism, persistence and other positive psychological states, can also cause happy emotions, such as the thought of victory in the hope of not feeling happy.
Under the blessing of positive emotions, motivation is easy to transform into a persevering and enduring action. In this case, even if you encounter difficult challenges, you can respond with a positive attitude, showing a willingness to do, happy attitude, and finally overcome the difficulties to achieve the goal.
Pleasant emotions affect the people around them to achieve what they want.
Finally, He Yinrui said, "KPMARON effect" in the strong motivation, cause positive happy emotions, positive emotions let themselves with a pleasant expression, their happy expression will let the people around them, unconsciously also show a pleasant expression, and further let him also feel happy.
When the people around you in your life are in a good mood when they meet you, then there is no challenge that the world cannot complete.
This is how to make good use of the KPMARON effect of psychology to achieve what you want.
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During the peak of the pandemic, MLMs such as Herbalife and Amway experienced a surge in sales, as lockdowns prompted increased focus on health, wellness products, and home-based business opportunities.

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Content: Alert
The best way to fight the virus Dietitians are exposed to 5 dietary keys
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Yeh Shu-chuan ’ s “Sustainable Quadrilateral Approach ”
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The School of Management of Sun Yat-sen University, established in 1984, is the first national university in Taiwan to receive the AACSB "International Association for the Promotion of Business and Management" international academic accreditation, and has been selected as one of the "Financial Times" 100 EMBA in the world for six consecutive years.
Yeh Shu-chuan, who took over as the 14th president of Zhongshan Hospital in February this year, obtained a PhD from Virginia Federal University, specializing in medical and human resources management, long-term care, and organizational behavior.
She pointed out that the Harvard Business Review has contributed many classic theories and cases over the past 100 years, and many excellent articles are worth reading and chewing.
Among the many management gurus who have written for this magazine, Yeh is most highly regarded by Daniel Goleman and Clayton M. Christensen.
Leaders have a high EQ.
Gorman ’ s famous book, EQ (Emotional Intelligence), published in 1995, turned IQ as a mainstream indicator of individual achievement into a revolutionary proposition.
Translated into more than 40 languages, the book has sold more than 5 million copies worldwide, and has been selected by Time magazine as one of the 25 most influential business books of the 20th century.
In the EQ book, it is an art, not a science, to find people with the “right leadership qualities ”, so the qualities of top leaders vary.
But all high-performing leaders have one important thing in common: high EQ.
Ip Shu-chuan further pointed out that IQ is related to talent and it is difficult to cultivate after birth, but EQ can be trained.
In her many years of teaching experience, whether it is students or entrepreneurs, the IQ is almost above the level, but there is a lack of EQ training; in fact, EQ can be trained, and the sooner the better.
EQ training focuses on breaking old behavior patterns and creating new ones.
Perhaps others ’ success stories are not easy to replicate, but relying on learning to enhance EQ can also increase the chances of business success.
The power of disruptive innovation
Christensen is Ip Shu-chuan ’ s second most respected management guru, best known as “disruptive innovation ”, which refers to companies with fewer resources and smaller scale that successfully challenge deep-rooted players in the market by improving their products and services.
“Disruptive innovation emphasizes skipping the past framework and creating the concept of ‘ non-linear ’, ” says Yeh Shu-juan, who believes that digital transformation can lead to non-linear development, and many of the latecomers who achieve disruptive innovation are achieved through digital transformation.
For example, after entering the digital age, companies will build “customer journeys ” through big data, do a lot of data analysis, master consumer behavior, preferences, and even achieve personalized sales experience.
Yeh Shu-chuan believes that in the future, in addition to the theory or knowledge of management, students should also join courses related to information management or information engineering, especially the basic skills related to artificial intelligence and big data.
Towards four sustainable directions
As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of Harvard Business Review, sustainability is also an important issue for businesses today.
Yeh suggests that Taiwanese companies can work in several directions.
The first is to develop a long-term vision.
Because business operations must be accountable to stakeholders, some enterprises attach great importance to short-term financial or performance, but lack long-term development vision.
For example, Cai Ming-chieh, chairman of MediaTek, once said in an interview with this magazine that the measure of the best CEO should be able to balance short-term interests with long-term growth.
Especially in the technology industry, due to rapid changes in the industrial environment, it may take several seasons or even several years of pressure to achieve the long-term strategic goals set, making the balance of long-term interests more challenging.
Second, corporate growth inevitably suffers from stagnation, and leaders must insist.
Because before success, no one is sure whether to walk on the right path, which is also the difficulty of decision makers, although the insistence is not necessarily successful, but the success of the back must be accompanied by insistence.
Third, companies must shape a consistent sense of honor.
Because most employees may just regard work as a "job" to support their families rather than a "career", it is relatively difficult to create a corporate culture that works together.
The key is how to provide good internal motivation and external motivation.
External motivation often refers to tangible conditions such as wages and benefits; but the key to truly creating a common culture is internal motivation.
For example, many leaders think of creating a “sense of accomplishment ” in their employees, but what bosses think of it may be completely different from what employees think of as a“ sense of accomplishment. ”
Ip Shu-chuan saw an example of a boss who wanted an employee to change the original work content and gain more experience, but the employee resisted because the employee ’ s ambition was to “live a normal life ” and didn ’ t want to do extra work or get the boss ’ s attention. It shows that the boss and the employee need to shape a common goal, not a simple task.
Fourth, the sustainability of enterprises must be accompanied by the sustainability of the environment.
While early companies did great harm to the environment in order to generate profits, today ’ s corporate development emphasizes sustainability with environmental, social and corporate governance aspects in mind.
A hundred years is a praiseworthy milestone.
On the basis of the accumulation of management, sustainable development will no longer be out of reach if it can meet the changes of the modern environment and the needs of the future.
For more information, please refer to Harvard Business Review, May 2022.
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Content: "The Technique of Framed Thinking": If you think carefully, you will find that it is not the failure itself that helps you grow, but how you respond to it.
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What we want you to know is
Failure teaches us only one thing: it was wrong to do so before, and it may also teach us to be humble.
If failure is the best teacher, I will tell you to try to fail so that you can learn the most from it.
Failure is very hurtful, and therefore makes you remember fresh, but failure is not the best teacher.
Written by Sheena Iyengar
When I was teaching framing at Columbia Business School, students would always ask, “Why don ’ t we also look at cases of failure? ”
From a young age, the parents taught us that we can learn the most from failure.
When we grow up, every time we see someone fail, we keep saying the same thing to them.
The real purpose, then, is to encourage you to pull yourself together and not to think that failure is your fault.
There is a moral to failure: no one is perfect.
Starting from failure in the Middle East also helps us develop resilience.
Unfortunately, however, there are a lot of people who can ’ t recover from failure.
If you think carefully, you will find that it is not the failure itself that helps you grow, but how you respond to it.
Failure teaches us only one thing: it was wrong to do so before, and it may also teach us to be humble.
If failure is the best teacher, I will tell you to try to fail so that you can learn the most from it.
Failure is very hurtful, and therefore makes you remember fresh, but failure is not the best teacher.
Suppose you go on a TV show to compete, and the rule is that you have to survive on your own for a month.
Helicopters put you in the depths of a forest, and you are clothed.
It has abundant water and is the source of the best food. There are all kinds of mushrooms in the forest.
I will provide two books to improve your chances of survival: one is the Encyclopedia of Mushrooms, which lists 500 poisonous mushrooms in the forest, and the other is a concise guide to 10 edible mushrooms.
You can only choose one, which one will you choose?
If you want to be a mushroom expert, you will definitely choose Encyclopedia.
But your purpose is different, what you want is to survive.
You need to build a home, find fuel to burn a fire, find a way to catch fire and gather food to stay alive.
You also need to make some wearable clothing, especially to protect your feet.
In other words, you have a lot of sub-problems that need to be solved urgently.
A concise guide to ten edible mushrooms can solve one of the sub-problems for you. The encyclopedia of 500 poisonous mushrooms can't solve anything.
You may also ask, “Why am I not learning the most from my own experience, but using the experience of others? ”
Isn ’ t experience the best teacher? ” Let ’ s go back to my hypothetical forest.
This time, you don ’ t have a book, so you have to learn from experience.
You picked a mushroom that looks like the one you ’ ve eaten before.
You try to eat, and you get very sick.
What does your experience tell you? Don ’ t eat this mushroom.
You try another one, you get sick again, you try again and again, try the whole forest.
Then you bumped into another contestant.
She came to this forest two weeks before you, and she tried 22 kinds of mushrooms before she finally found a food that would not make her uncomfortable.
Will you ask her to tell you what it is, or will you say to her, “Thank you, don ’ t tell me, I want to learn by myself. ”?
Experience can be a good teacher, but it is also the slowest teacher.
Learning from your companions who live on this island is faster and safer than trying dozens of mushrooms on your own and only just getting ready to eat them.
It took him decades to actually run every factory in order to learn fur on his own, far less than he had learned from the experience of collecting the heads of various factories. Picasso took many years to become a professional painter on his own, but many very thoughtful professional painters carried the load.
Picasso pioneered innovation by borrowing ideas from other artists, best known as African sculptors.
It would take years for Picasso to master the techniques of African art by accumulating experience.
However, he did not do so, he was learning from other artists.
You ’ ll find plenty of mushrooms as you drill through the search solution steps in Frame Thinking, but only a few edible mushrooms should be included in your list of options.
Another question I ’ m often asked is: “Does trying to avoid failure make us hate risk? If innovation is always risky, shouldn ’ t we embrace failure? ” There are indeed some creatives who suggest that future innovators should“ fail early and fail often ”. They treat every new attempt as an experiment, and some experiments are doomed to fail.
However, if you follow the framing method, systematic, or even methodologically based innovation, you can reduce your chances of failure.
Let's take a look at the scientific method, scientific experiments are not all of the same importance, some are good experiments, some are very bad experiments, I hope you can avoid very bad experiments, and the framing method tells you how to do this.
Don ’ t rely on trial and error, you have to collect 500 mushrooms, which is a terrible experiment, inefficient in the best case, and deadly in the worst case.
In contrast, frame-breaking thinking provides good ideas that have a better chance of success.
Yes, it ’ s also an experiment to implement these ideas, but because you think of successful tactics as a solid foundation, the chances of success are much higher.
As we all know, it is estimated that 90% of start-ups fail.
It ’ s useful to know who failed, but you shouldn ’ t add failure cases to your list.
You want to improve the chances of success of the experiment you are trying to do, don ’ t fail.
Newton is not standing on the shoulders of experimental losers, he is standing on the shoulders of people who have achieved something in the past.
Making good use of elements of past success does not automatically eliminate risk.
The creation of Netflix was an experiment, but it was an experiment based on practical tactics.
In the scientific community, researchers spend more time building experiments than they actually do.
Don ’ t be afraid of failure, but don ’ t admit failure.
Frame-breaking thinking makes up your idea with solid elements that increase the chance that your experiment will eventually succeed.
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Content: Waiting to be anxious?
Making use of the KPMG effect makes it easier to succeed
Health Care Network
2022-08-12 20: 31: 00
[Health and Medical Network / Reporter Zeng Zhenghao reported] The university designated examination ended, and candidates waited in anxiety for the transcripts, chose to fill in the volunteer, and then waited with a worried heart for the list to be released.
In fact, every stage of life has an amazing similarity to the exam: work hard, expect results.
Using the knowledge of psychology – the Pygmalion effects – makes it easier to achieve success.
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"The KPMG effect" is believed to be true, but not true.
Ho Ying-jui, head of the psychology department at Sun Yat-sen Medical University, explains that the Karmalon effect is mainly a psychological phenomenon in which self-prophecies are realized, and if they believe that they will succeed, they will succeed; if they believe that they will fail, they will eventually fail.
He further explained that, according to legend, there was a prince of the Aegean Sea, Pygmalion, who fell in love with the maiden Galatea carved out of marble.
So he asked the angel to give Galatea life, and was sincerely touched by the prince, and the angel finally gave Galatea, and fell in love with the prince, sharing a beautiful love.
Strong motor and positive emotions, and finally achieve the goal.
This is also true in the real world, as long as there is a very strong "motivation", after hard work, it is easy to achieve success.
This phenomenon seems simple, but it has a very solid mechanism of neuroscience, emotional psychology, and social psychology.
"Motivation" is an idea, a desire, good motivation (such as the pursuit of success, the pursuit of excellence), can lead to enthusiasm, optimism, persistence and other positive psychological states, can also cause happy emotions, such as the thought of victory in the hope of not feeling happy.
Under the blessing of positive emotions, motivation is easy to transform into a persevering and enduring action. In this case, even if you encounter difficult challenges, you can respond with a positive attitude, showing a willingness to do, happy attitude, and finally overcome the difficulties to achieve the goal.
Pleasant emotions affect the people around them to achieve what they want.
Finally, He Yinrui said, "KPMARON effect" in the strong motivation, cause positive happy emotions, positive emotions let themselves with a pleasant expression, their happy expression will let the people around them, unconsciously also show a pleasant expression, and further let him also feel happy.
When the people around you in your life are in a good mood when they meet you, then there is no challenge that the world cannot complete.
This is how to make good use of the KPMARON effect of psychology to achieve what you want.
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