While writing my personal development plan‚ I realized that I am currently in the process of finding my own true north. I still feel lost but with some of the guidance in this book‚ I am beginning to understand where my own compass lies. It was also nice to read that there is no one style of leadership that is correct and that there are no universal traits or characteristics to effective leadership. This insight provided by TN really gave me a positive outlook as I had always thought to myself‚ I
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When I first read Alina Tugend’s Multitasking Can Make You Lose… Um… Focus‚ I had to sit back and think of all the times I have tried to multitask‚ and how sometimes they did not turn out that well. Then‚ I reread her article‚ without listening to music in the background this time‚ and I tried to focus as much as I could. When I started to analyze her work‚ I noticed one major issue‚ at least for me‚ in her writing: She only wrote about the smaller things. What I mean‚ is that if she really was concerned
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he reporter Daniel Victor’s article entitled “When the Boss Wants You to Do Something Unethical” is a vivid elucidation on workplace ethical issues and their impacts on the business decision-making process. The writer illustrates such unethical requests from one’s boss as misleading and lying to a client as well as using cheats despite awareness of their prospective inferior outcomes. Although the author repudiates using unethical means for positive results‚ he acknowledges the presence of perplexity
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Motivating yourself to Learn It’s quite evident that motivation is the key to completing tasks and getting them done on time. Motivating yourself is an essential part to being successful. Self motivation involves recognizing the way that you learn best. This chapter has provided me with the information to assess my strength in basic skills‚ to identify my learning style and to figure out where my greatest degree of intelligence lies. Pre-school and elementary school are the building blocks required
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new age of Internet technology‚ the quest for defining oneself has shifted online. While many‚ especially the younger generation‚ embrace the liberation that digital communities offer‚ others are apprehensive of the dangers that lurk in the virtual world. The anxiety is not entirely unjustified. Nevertheless‚ the truth is the benefits that accompany online communities far outweigh its drawbacks. According to Daniel Chandler‚ author of “Identities under Construction”‚ and Danah Boyd‚ an American researcher
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Watching TV Makes You Smarter Steven Johnson’s argument in “Watching TV Makes you Smarter” that television increases intellectual and enhances our cognitive faculties‚ therefore making us smarter Johnson’s states that‚ “For decades‚ we’ve worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a path declining steadily toward lowest-common- denominator standards‚ presumably because the “masses” want dumb‚ simple pleasures and big media companies try to give the masses what they want. But as that
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Pills To Make You Smart The plague of “smart pills” is rapidly growing throughout the World. Ritalin‚ Adderall‚ and Provigil are taking over college campuses and business offices each day. Why ADHD pills though? The answer is that ADHD medication gets into your brain so that you can maintain focus. These pills are called cognitive-enhancing drugs‚ which means that they access the brain to enhance. However‚ you have to have a prescription to get the pills. Many people believe that gives people who
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Name:______________________ $JOEZ%3BNPT Understanding Yourself as a Student Please go to the website below and complete the following two self-‐assessments that should take about 10-‐15 min. (What’s you learning style? and Which study habits can you improve?). Answer the questions below about the results of your assessments and bring your answers
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always a piece for you. This‚ of course‚ is music‚ which might be the greatest invention known to humans. Music has become an important part of society throughout the world as people use it to express themselves. All it takes is to listen to the very different and contrasting genres of music we have today. Each different type of genre conveys different meanings. Jazz is associated with relaxation‚ the blues with sorrow‚ and so on. Whatever instrument it may be‚ your voice‚ or a piano‚ you are expressing
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EYE FOR EYE MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD BLIND”? (A) An eye for an eye - revenge‚ believing doing something back to someone who has wronged you in some way as the way forward e.g if someone kicks you‚ it’s only fair you kick them back. If a country bombs you‚ you bomb them back. If a religion kills some of ’your’ people‚ you kill them back. If someone takes your eye‚ you take theirs... Makes the whole world blind - this is the important bit of the statement. You are left blind because you are so consumed
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