viewed in class was a Ted Talk by health psychologist Kelly McGonigal. She talked about stress‚ particularly making the case that stress is not as detrimental as we have been taught to think it is. In fact‚ McGonigal claims that stress can actually be a friend to you and your health. Mcgonigal asks her audience to indicate the level stress they’ve felt over the past year. To not surprise the vast majority of the audience says they have suffered a good deal of stress. “My fear is that something
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I never liked to think a lot about college‚ the reason is that I was afraid that I was not going to do good there. I was afraid of my classes because I knew that it was going to be challenging for me and specially English. English has not been my best subject. I just don’t think I am good enough with my writing. I would always struggle to get an idea of what to write. I never expected to get good grades on my assignment specifically essays‚ but not only that. Reading was difficult too‚ I could not
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October 7‚ 2014 11335181 “Annotated Bibliography” *fix alphabetically* Robinson‚ J. (2014). PAY ATTENTION!. Entrepreneur‚ 42(9)‚ 60-65. The online article named PAY ATTENTION is written by a man named Joe Robinson. Joe Robinson is one of most quoted experts when it comes to work effectiveness. He has appeared on different television shows‚ newspapers and radio stations. Some of the examples are The Today Show‚ CNN‚ NBC Nightly News‚ National Public Radio’s
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most significant and important relationship in Pip’s life so far has been Joe. Throughout Pip’s life he has been able to have Joe. Joe has been Pip’s best friend his whole life. When Joe is first introduced to the readers on page 8‚ he is perceived immediately as having a calm‚ easy going attitude. Even though they are not related by blood‚ Joe treats Pip as part of his own family. It’s fortunate that Pip was able to have Joe in his life as he grew up and not just his sister. Joe’s calm demeanor is
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In the Ted talk‚ Sherry Turkle talks about how with the rise of technology we are experiencing a change in the dynamic of relationships we have with each other. Instead of interacting with one another in group settings‚ such as classes or meetings‚ we are on our phone‚ computer‚ or tablet. She brings up the topic of being together while not really being together. People are more likely to hide away in their phones than to engage in conversation with one another. Turkle explains the idea that many
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The Ted-Talk‚ “Our campaign to ban plastic bags in Bali”‚ given by siblings Melati and Isabel Wijsen was seemingly directed towards “all the kids of this beautiful but challenging world”. Therefore‚ centering their audience at all those kids in the crowd that will later become the future “leaders of today”. The main idea that the two sisters draw up within their speech is the concept that “you are never too young to understand” the world around you alongside the fact that making a change “isn’t going
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started with a leaflet that I picked up in London.” Instead of directly stating the thesis of his speech‚ Bales draws the audience’s attention by telling when his “interest in contemporary forms of slavery started.” Meanwhile‚ WuDunn starts off with “The global challenge that I want to talk to you about today rarely makes the front pages.” She continues by showing her family group photo in front of Tiananmen and connects it with an example that happened in China. As an audience‚ I immediately know “slavery”
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group of people come in and instead of describing themselves‚ they each talk about physical characteristics they saw in an individual from the previous group. This portion of the experiment comes off as extremely impactful and positive as the observers speak. Dove wants to show their viewers how much their company
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The Other Wes Moore connected to TED Talk John Coyle the speaker of my Ted Talk talked about strengths and weaknesses. Coyle encouraged his audience to focus more on their strengths rather that their weaknesses. Coyle believed that if a person worked too long to improve their weaknesses‚ then it is obvious that they can’t improve those weaknesses‚ and should move on to focusing on their strengths. Therefore‚ the best thing to do is to move on to building up their strengths‚ because they can surely
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management group‚ group 7‚ was assigned to take over a business as top level management. With the only guideline of creating a drastically more capable and profitable organization within a year‚ we had a lot of work ahead. The business belonged to Old Joe‚ an absolute genius engineer who was lacking in business management skills‚ Fred‚ a failed engineer with underlying personal issues resulting in counterproductive activity‚ and Netty‚ Old Joe’s wife. This division of the business specializes in the
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