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'Can we fix it' is the right question to ask - Telegraph - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 25 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Most of us believe in positive self-talk. "I can achieve anything," we mouth to the mirror in the morning. "Nobody can stop me," we tell ourselves before walking into a big meeting.
  • But not Bob. Instead of puffing up himself and his team, he first wonders whether they can actually achieve their goal. In asking his signature question – Can we fix it? – he introduces some doubt.
  • The self-questioning group solved significantly more anagrams than the self-affirming group.
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  • The outcome was the same. People "primed" with Will I solved nearly twice as many anagrams as people in the other three groups.
  • "In addition, asking questions forces you to define if you reallywant something and probably think about what you want, even in the presence of obstacles."
  • "breathing your own exhaust"
  • "When you create something, you can fall in love with it and aren't able to see or hear anything contrary. Whatever comes out of your mouth is all you're inhaling," she says. "But when you ask a question – Will I? – you're creating an opening. You're inviting a conversation – whether it's self-conversation or a conversation with others."
  • His business is a series of projects – many of them unexpected, most of them hazily-defined – that require people to collaborate, fashion solutions on the fly and contend with surly customers. By asking "Can we fix it?", Bob widens the possibilities. Only then – once he's explored the options and examined his assumptions – does he elicit a rousing "Yes, we can" from his team and everyone gets to work.
  • anonymous on 25 Jun 10
     
    Do we teach this to our students? Do we use the strategy ourselves? Here's the annotated link: http://diigo.com/0bj1y
  • anonymous on 25 Jun 10
     
    Here's the annotated link: http://diigo.com/0bj1y
anonymous

The Case for Working With Your Hands - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 21 Jul 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 21 Jul 09
     
    7.21.09 * The Princeton economist Alan Blinder argues that the crucial distinction in the emerging labor market is not between those with more or less education, but between those whose services can be delivered over a wire and those who must do their work in person or on site. * A gifted young person who chooses to become a mechanic rather than to accumulate academic credentials is viewed as eccentric, if not self-destructive. * As I sat in my K Street office, Fred's life as an independent tradesman gave me an image that I kept coming back to: someone who really knows what he is doing, losing himself in work that is genuinely useful and has a certain integrity to it. * It would probably be impossible to do such work in isolation, without access to a collective historical memory; you have to be embedded in a community of mechanic-antiquarians. * Good diagnosis requires attentiveness to the machine, almost a conversation with it.... * The regularity of the cubicles made me feel I had found a place in the order of things. I was to be a knowledge worker. * A good job requires a field of action where you can put your best capacities to work and see an effect in the world. Academic credentials do not guarantee this. * In the boardrooms of Wall Street and the corridors of Pennsylvania Avenue, I don't think you'll see a yellow sign that says "Think Safety!" as you do on job sites and in many repair shops, no doubt because those who sit on the swivel chairs tend to live remote from the consequences of the decisions they make. * Our peripheral vision is perhaps recovering, allowing us to consider the full range of lives worth choosing. For anyone who feels ill suited by disposition to spend his days sitting in an office, the question of what a good job looks like is now wide open.
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