Plan the Learning
Ten years spent selling products that people don't really need for more money than they are actually worth has given me the desire to build things, to create and maintain projects that fulfill actual purpose and are worth the resources invested in them. Infrastructure, tools, libraries, the critical bits that everyone needs to be more productive and to help their businesses grow. I don't want to sell the product at the end of a long chain, I want to build the chain.
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At my last place of work, we sold BBQs, the big flashy kind. My boss was of the mind that demonstrations sold product, so it was my job to use working models of these BBQs four days a week. We had up to four BBQs running on each of these days, all using large amounts of meat to show off the different ways they cooked.
The Story of Te Houtaewa
Te Houtaewa was the fastest runner of his day and played many pranks on his peoples enemies. One morning his mother wanted kumara for the hangi (earth oven) and asked Te Houtaewa to go to the gardens at Te Kao, a short distance away. He agreed to fetch the kumara and told his mother to prepare the hangi.
EQ is Brain Salad
"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you."
- Roger Ebert, the best film journalist to have ever lived
Growth whosit and neuro what now?
Neuroplasticity, growth mindset, and your wobbly, jelly brain. Neuroplasticity refers to the brains ability to 'modify' itself, creating new neural connections and pathways when reinforced practice and repetition of the activity. Understanding this mechanism of change is incredibly useful, as with it, individuals and improve their brain's function and capacity in desired ways, leading to better mental and physical health outcomes. Even by the simple act of just knowing that this process happens in our daily lives with practicing new skills, or reinforcing good (and bad) habits, helps people increase their academic performance, and negated some of the negative effects of stress on learning.
Study Your Reflections
/a>When you look at your reflection, what do you see? What are three new things you have learnt about yourself and your ego due to the core learning? That I already practiced some of it, more than I realised, despite being a little sceptical.