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When Are You at Your Best?
What are you thinking about when you are thinking about the things you have to do? What are you thinking about when you are thinking about obligation? Now, what are you thinking about when you are thinking about the things you get to do? What are you thinking about when you are thinking about opportunity? ...
Don’t Let Someone Else Define Who You Are
Right now, over 2 million high school seniors all around the United States are applying to college. And many of those apply early, to receive an early response, and to possibly increase the odds of getting in to their dream school. Those who applied for Early Decision or Early Action, are hearing the news right ...
Who Are You Designing Your Learning For?
Remember the swings on your playground from childhood? Remember how they’re built? There’s a wooden or hard rubber seat and two long chains hanging from a metal bar. That design inherently either invites someone to run to it and play, or not. The swing requires people with two arms and legs, a certain degree of ...
Designing Effective Microlearning Content for Leadership Training
Ever find yourself in a leadership seminar that seems to drag on forever? Your mind starts wandering, and before you know it, you’re thinking about what’s for lunch instead of the topic at hand. What if we could flip that script and make learning engaging, bite-sized, and seamlessly integrated into our busy schedules? Microlearning is ...
Decisions Are Experiments
Transcript: Critical thinking is not merely an intellectual exercise, it’s meant to provide reason and logic so that you can make good decisions. When the time comes to make a decision, you’ve done all the work. You’ve described the problem, gathered information from a variety of perspectives, and interpreted and evaluated the evidence and relevant ...
Cycling America with Teenagers: Strength from Deep in the Group
This summer three dads, and four of our teenage kids bicycled across the United States from Seattle to Maine to learn more about ourselves, our world, and what’s possible when we allow for growth and renewal. Here is another learning excerpt from the journey. This day did not turn out as any of us expected. ...
