#1 Daniel Pink: The Candle Problem experimenter gives subjects candle‚ thumbtacks‚ matches. Put candle on the wall. Put tack box on wall to hold candle. Add timing into the experiment: offer rewards (money). How much faster? 3.5 minutes longer. Incentive didn’t work. Never has worked. Findings are largely ignored. MISMATCH BETWEEN SCIENCE AND BUSINESS. In the 21st century‚ reward/punishment doesn’t work. Take the tacks out of the box: make it way easier. Incentivized group worked better in simplified experiment
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Jo Hughes: Magpie Person About Lucy Main character Has “personality” Imogen Lucy’s sister. 4 years older. Is “pretty” The father Expresses his sorrow with violence. Doesn’t cry. The Mother Cries a lot. Tom Imogen’s boyfriend (when she is an adult) Vanessa Lucy’s friend. Sees Imogen at the marked. Distant family don’t think they are alike at all. They were looking from one of the girls to the other‚ and then let their eyes linger admiringly on Imogen. Lucy would try to make
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This Ted Ed Talk by Brene Brown discusses the idea of human connection and the power of accepting ones self. Brene discusses her journey to try to dissolve the mystery of vulnerability and the lack of human connection involved with it. Her research concludes that the best way to connect with others is to accept and embrace that you are vulnerable‚ and your vulnerabilities are a part of you. To be able to connect with others‚ you must first be able to connect with yourself. Brene discusses that vulnerability
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highly educated having attended both college and law school‚ and was considered to be extremely charming which he used to lure his victims. Bundy planned his crimes carefully‚ using a guise of being injured to lure young women who he then murdered. Ted left no evidence except for the physical‚ and likely would not have been caught if he hadn’t been pulled over by chance after committing a murder. 5. Holmes and Holmes identify 8 types of mass murderers. Which type do you consider the most dangerous
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This Ted talk intended to inform others about the serious plight of young black boys being raised in America. Clint Smith eloquently described the unfair rules and teachings and restriction sometimes known as “the talk” that is given to black boys of a particular age in an effort to keep them safe. The need for these rules have been brought on by bias‚ bigotry‚ racism‚ and ignorance of other people mostly of other ethnicities and races. “The Talk” may differ from person to person‚ or house to house
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that he needs to stop living in the past and decided to forget about Martha and take on the responsibility of a leader. The most shocking part of this chapter was the way the men handled the death of Ted Lavender‚ specifically Cross’s reaction. The soldiers all took his death way too lightly. Ted was killed right in front of them and killed at a time they were least expecting something like this to happen. The way the soldiers handled this was almost inhumane. Then as
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In the Ted Talk‚ Jeff Iliff describes different ways that our bodies‚ more specifically our internal organs‚ secrete waste and how this process differs in the two percent of our bodies that is the brain (2014). Iliff also stresses the importance of learning about healthy sleep patterns by mentioning the fact that we spend nearly one-third of our lives sleeping (2014). Furthermore‚ the video describes a process that occurs in our brains‚ in order to secret waste that may be lying between various cells
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Over the years I’ve witnessed to some gifted public speakers. People like Ted Kennedy (yes I’m met him a few times) who had a power and forcefulness to his voice that painted mental imagery so strong you would swear you can see his words. John Bingham from Runner Magazine‚ he had jokes‚ but could captivate his audience through a shared passion that made strangers feel like they knew each other. Retired Chief Terry Savoie who delivered a speak at an awards banquet with the slogan “life ain’t fair…win
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politician’s life are put under the spotlight and receive a greater deal of attention than ones in a civilian’s life. For this reason‚ celebrities and politicians usually step up on a public platform to explain their actions. One such event happened with Ted Kennedy at Chappaquiddick Island after he left the scene of an accident and failed to report it to the authorities‚ which led to Mary Jo Kopechne’s death. To polish his tarnished image‚ Kennedy portrays Kopechne’s death as an accidental tragedy through
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Salvation Langston Hughes After reading the excerpt from Langston Hughes’s autobiography‚ "Salvation"‚ I pondered the many factors of religion and what makes a person believe in god or not believe in god. I believe that religion is a form of individual expression‚ and that each person should have the freedom to conform his or her identity to whatever religion feels right to that person‚ or even to conform to no religion at all. I think that if I had been in Langston’s position sitting on a mourner’s
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