So. More summaries from really good great books. Just if you wanna check them out:
Drive by Daniel Pink
Nine strategies for awakening your motivation:
1. Give the flow test: randomly check what you are doing—ar e you in the “flow?”
2. Ask a big question: “A great man,” said Clare Luce, “is one sentence.” Abraham Lincoln was “He preserved the union and freed the slaves.” What is your sentence?
3. Ask a little question: “Was today better than yesterday?”
4. Take a sabbath—one year off after seven years working
5. Give yourself a performance review…how are you doing?
6. Get randomly inspired by quotes/questions
7. Get closer to mastering something (10 years, 10,000 hours of deep practice) : work to improve, repeat, get feedback, focus on weak points, prepare for the pain
8. Write a Webber card: on a 3×5 card, on one side write “What gets you up in the morning?” and on the other side write “What keeps you up at night?” get the answer down to a single sentence. This gives you an answer you question with “What are you going to do about it?”
9. Create your own motivational poster (you know, those things with a picture, main heading, and underlying description)
Nine ways to improve your company, office, or group
1. 20% time: Let them use 20% of their time on their own strategies/problem solving stuff that interests them
2. Peer to peer rewards: at any time, co-workers and reward their peers with a set-upon company reward in the moment, for specific successes (rather than corporate rewarding)
3. Autonomy audit: give an anonymous questionnaire:
A. How much autonomy do you have over your tasks at work in a given day?
B. How much autonomy do you have over your time (how used, and when) in a given day?
C. How much autonomy do you have over your team at work—who you get to work with?
D. How much autonomy do you have over your technique at work?
4. As a boss, give up control: involve people in goal setting, use noncontroling language, and hold office hours so others can come to you when they need/want something.
5. Have everyone write a one sentence answer to “what is our companies purpose?” and see how it matches.
6. Watch pronouns when people talk: is it “we” or “they?”
7. Design for intrinsic motivation: where people want to participate, gives users autonomy, and keeps the system open
8. Goldilocks for groups: not too hard, not to easy: have diversity, “no competition” zone, task-shifting, animate with purpose, not rewards
9. FexEx day: one paid day of work to deliver something—a new idea, prototype, better process—the next day
Nine ideas for helping our kids:
1. 3 part test for homework:
A. Am I giving the student autonomy in how and when to do this?
B. Does it promote mastery by giving engaging tasks?
C. Does the student understand the purpose of the assignment?
2. Have a FedEx day: whole school day to solve a problem or tackle a project—and then deliver
3. DIY report cards: list learning goals at the beginning of the semester, at the end, rate themselves. Then compare with the official report card and see similarities/differences
4. Give allowance and chores, but don’t combine them. Chores are being part of the family. Allowance is to learn to be responsible with money. Don’t mix.
5. Praise rules: Praise effort and strategy, not intelligence, make praise specific, praise in private, and only for a good reason.
6. Help kids see the big picture: connect it with relevance
7. Check out these schools:
A. Big picture learning: www.bigpicture.org
B. Sudbury valley school: www.sudval.org
C. Tinkering school: www.tinkeringschool.com
D. Puget Sound community school: www.pscs.org
E. Montessori schools: www.montessori.org
8. Check out homeschoolers J: www.homeedmag.com , www.unschooling.com
9. Turn students into teachers : give them the opportunity
Head First by Tony Buzan
Creative Intelligence
1. Develop your senses
2. Study the art of science
3. Study the science of art
4. Realize that, in some way, everything connects to everything else
How to develop creative intelligence:
1. Day-dream
2. Night-dream
3. Note down your night-dreams
4. The creativity game: write down how many ways you can use a paper clip
5. Learn to draw
6. Learn to tell jokes
7. Play the “everything connects to everything else game” by picking two random things and seeing how they connect (example: frog/spaceship)
8. Doodle
9. Write poetry
10. Tell and be told stories
11. Think of “six impossible things before breakfast”
12. Creative characteristics:
A. Use different colors when making notes
B. Practice seeing things from different points of view
C. Re-arrange concepts/ideas
D. Respond emotionally to all aspects of life
E. Express yourself
F. Mind map
Personal Intelligence
1. Self-talk
2. Treat yourself as your best friend
3. Continue to develop your other intelligences
4. Wait!
5. Take regular breaks
6. Express your emotions
7. Be honest with yourself
8. Explore meditation
9. Gather moments of contentment
10. Silence
Social Intelligence
Beginning relationships
1. Remain constantly aware of what a miracle you and others are
2. Attend shows and plays
3. Play around with questions
4. Learn from the greats
5. Expand your social horizons
6. Collect people’s stories
7. Take a presentation skills course
8. Dress to impress
Being in relationships
9. Learn to listen twice as much as you talk
10. Make a habit of always finding good in others
11. Discover the uniqueness of others
12. Getting what you want/need from others
13. Dealing with conflict: put yourself in their shoes, let them know how you feel
14. Managing and leading: have a clear vision and goal for your team, make sure everyone is in agreement of the goal, give regular rewards, listen to opinions/suggestions, check progress, think of new/creative ideas to reach the goal, be positive, use all the intelligences to motivate.
15. Ending relationships
Spiritual Intelligence
1. Work on your personal intelligence
2. Develop social intelligence
3. Spiritual paths
4. Read
5. Study the microcosmic and macrocosmic worlds
6. Spend time with nature
7. Develop your sense of humor
8. Develop your childlikeness
9. The good things in life—count them
10. Know your values
11. Charity as a way of life
12. Brain-fasting from TV/media…
13. Get rid of excess baggage
14. Refill your spiritual self daily
15. Mind map your vision
Physical Intelligence
1. Overcome your fears
2. Take regular exercise
3. Muscular strength
4. Flexibility
5. Balance
6. Anticipation
7. Agility and co-ordination
8. Brain and aerobic exercise
9. Change your pace
10. Healthy diet
11. Body consciousness
12. Get rid of fear of strain/damage
13. Train your body to want physical exercise
14. Relax and reduce stress
Sensual Intelligence
1. Explore and develop all your senses
2. Give your eyes regular visual feasts
3. Give your ears regular aural treats
4. Provide your nose with olfactory surprises
5. Provide regular treats for your mouth
6. Give your skin regular treats
7. Develop your intuition
8. Heighten all your sense receptors
Numerical Intelligence
1. Estimate
2. Learn from others—real life numbers
3. Beat the odds
4. Rank things
5. Beat the calculator
6. Play mental calculation games
7. Use memory techniques—chunking
8. Mind sports and games
Spatial Intelligence
1. Play imagination games
2. Play board games/computer games
3. Dancing and physical activities
4. Know where you are
5. Get unlost
6. Learn to play pool
7. Study basic astronomy
8. Doodle
9. Have multidimensional toy
10. Mind map
Verbal Intelligence
1. Increase your vocabulary
2. Play verbal games like scrabble, crossword puzzles…
3. Read voraciously and widely
4. Buy a pocket dictionary
5. Buy a thesaurus
6. Learn to speed read
7. Improve your concentration
8. Reading words and remembering them
9. Develop your logical thinking powers/Word power
10. Learn a new language
11. Make words your hobby
12. Learn the different parts of words
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