Author: CummingsRL

แสวงหาหน้าที่ความรับผิดชอบ

“แสวงหาความสุขเพราะอยากมีความสุขเพียงเท่านั้น คุณจะไม่พบความสุข จงแสวงหาหน้าที่ความรับผิดชอบ แล้วความสุขจะตามมา เหมือนเงาที่เกิดขึ้นพร้อมกับแสงอาทิตย์” — ไทรอน เอ็ดเวิร์ดส์, นักเทววิทยาชาวอเมริกัน ความสุขเป็นเรื่องซับซ้อน เราเชื่อกันว่าหากประสบความสำเร็จแล้วความสุขจะเกิดตามมา แต่งานวิจัยพบว่า ไม่เป็นอย่างนั้น เพราะความสุขและการมองโลกในแง่ดี คือ ตัวกระตุ้นให้เกิดความสำเร็จ ขณะที่การแสวงหาความสุขเพราะอยากมีความสุขเท่านั้น ก็จะไม่มีความสุขเช่นเดียวกัน ความสุขเกิดขึ้นเมื่อเรามีเป้าหมาย เมื่อเราค้นหาความหมายของชีวิต เมื่อเรา“แสวงหาหน้าที่ความรับผิดชอบ” #Nspyr #SoftPowerSkills #InspireEmpowerChange

Boeing 737Max – A Case Study of Public Panic: How Political-Economic Influences & Cognitive Biases Feed Hysteria

(I’ve updated this post as the situation has developed) Public panic fueled by government and media overreaction to Boeing 737 MAX incidents make a poignant case study of how political-economic & cognitive biases can fuel a mass hysteria. A hostile Chinese government promoting its own aircraft industry hastily banned 737 flights before evidence of cause.

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Meet Your Goals! Free Action Plan Workshop

Did you make any resolutions for 2019? How’s that going so far? Please enjoy & learn from this free, practical workshop on choosing goals, making an action plan, and succeeding at accomplishing them based on scientifically-based principles. More free materials are available at https://andamaninspirations.com/free-materials/ #SoftPowerSkills #Nspyr #InspireEmpowerChange

Using Priming & Timing to Persuade

One early morning, I watched local fishermen tending their nets as the tide slowly retreated, following the setting moon. Fishermen understand the importance of timing. They take in many factors of nature to decide when to cast their nets.  In persuading & influencing, we benefit from learning the right timing too. In Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way

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Test Your Beliefs

Philip Tetlock found a surprising result when testing teams of experts to predict future events. After years of tracking how well these teams did in forecasting significant events or developments in countries, he found they did little better than random chance…about as well as “a dart-throwing chimpanzee.” A big problem, however, was that these experts were

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Reckless Thai Motorcycle Mama

This video is shocking.  How could a mother endanger lives by texting & driving a motorcycle with hands off the handle bar? But should we blame this woman, or take a look at the culture that made her think this is ok? Thailand has the world’s 3rd highest per capita rate of motorcycle-related fatalities, and

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Dealing With Disruptive Change

What is our capacity to envision our possible futures? How do we prepare? Here’s one example—genetically-edited algae that reproduces on wasteland, in salt water, absorbing carbon emissions to produce fuel. Wild algae didn’t produce enough fats to make it economically feasible to extract energy—but scientists discovered how to genetically manipulate a ‘lipid trigger’ that doubled

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Expand Your Limits Through Language

The limits of my language are the limits of my world.    — Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher Are ideas independent of language? Can one person’s idea conceived in one language be completely translated into another language without loss? In our global world, even with Google translate or human interpreters, perfect communication is rarely possible. If you have

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The Cure for AntiSocial Media

The ideal promise of world community through the global Internet & social media sites has become a dystopian reality of digital tribes warring with one another. Using Internet more than 5 hours per day (and the average US teenager is on 9 hours per day) has been linked to increased suicide and depression rates.  There’s

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