Incredere: leadership, creativitate, frumusete
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in oricare moment.
electoral sau nu.
INCREDERE
You know, in the military, they give medals to people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may gain. In business, we give bonuses to peoplewho are willing to sacrifice others so that we may gain. We have it backwards. Right?
So I asked myself, where do people like this come from? And my initial conclusion was that they’re just better people. That’s why they’re attracted to the military. These better people are attracted to this concept of service. But that’s completely wrong.
What I learned was that it’s the environment, and if you get the environment right, every single one of us has the capacity to do these remarkable things, and more importantly, others have that capacity too.
I’ve had the great honor of getting to meet some of these, who we would call heroes, who have put themselves and put their lives at risk to save others, and I asked them, “Why would you do it? Why did you do it?” And they all say the same thing: “Because they would have done it for me.” It’s this deep sense of trust and cooperation.
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Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank. I know many people at the seniormost levels of organizations who are absolutely not leaders. They are authorities, and we do what they say because they have authority over us, but we would not follow them. And I know many people who are at the bottoms of organizations who have no authority and they are absolutely leaders, and this is because they have chosen to look after the person to the left of them, and they have chosen to look after the person to the right of them. This is what a leader is.
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CREATIVITATE
the process “guided mastery.”
I love that term: guided mastery. And something else happened, these people who went through the process and touched the snake ended up having less anxiety about other things in their lives. They tried harder, they persevered longer, and they were more resilient in the face of failure. They just gained a new confidence. And Bandura calls that confidence self-efficacy — the sense that you can change the world and that you can attain what you set out to do.
I really believe that when people gain this confidence — and we see it all the time at the d.school and at IDEO — they actually start working on the things that are really important in their lives. We see people quit what they’re doing and go in new directions. We see them come up with more interesting, and just more, ideas so they can choose from better ideas. And they just make better decisions.
It would be really great if you didn’t let people divide the world into the creatives and the non-creatives, like it’s some God-given thing, and to have people realize that they’re naturally creative. And those natural people should let their ideas fly. That they should achieve what Bandura calls self-efficacy, that you can do what you set out to do, and that you can reach a place of creative confidence and touch the snake.
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FRUMUSETE
Ten thousand people every month google, “Am I ugly?”
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today’s teenagers are rarely alone. They’re under pressure to be online and available at all times, talking, messaging, liking, commenting, sharing, posting — it never ends.
Never before have we been so connected, so continuously, so instantaneously, so young. And as one mom told me, it’s like there’s a party in their bedroom every night. There’s simply no privacy. And the social pressures that go along with that are relentless.
This always-on environment is training our kids to value themselves based on the number of likes they get and the types of comments that they receive. There’s no separation between online and offline life. What’s real or what isn’t is really hard to tell the difference between. And it’s also really hard to tell the difference between what’s authentic and what’s digitally manipulated.
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But let’s show our kids the truth. Let’s show them that the way you look is just one part of your identity and that the truth is we love them for who they are and what they do and how they make us feel. Let’s build self-esteem into our school curriculums. Let’s each and every one of us change the way we talk and comapre ourselves to other people.
