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• 12.21.11
  Permalink: Zimbardo Ethics, Giving Help, Interviews, Life Skills, Motivation, Psychology, Social Capital, Values | (35)

  CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING A HERO? Learning to be a hero is more important than you might think. Article by Brooke Allen, Interview by Adrienne Rodney and Brooke Allen. Last summer we interviewed Dr. Phillip Zimbardo about his Heroic Imagination Project. Before we met Dr. Phillip Zimbardo it wasn’t clear what a hero is or how frequently we all are presented with opportunities to be one. Zimbardo defines heroes as people who put themselves at risk for the benefit of others. Altruism is “heroism lite” – helping others without expectation of gain. When most people say someone is a “hero” they really mean “role model.” ...
• 09.28.11
  Permalink: It’s Not Just Who You Know Book Review, Life Skills, Social Capital | (1)

  IT'S NOT JUST WHO YOU KNOW Book Reviews by David Anderson and Eric LaRue Tommy Spaulding has built a successful career by being a leader and teaching others to be leaders. In his book, It's Not Just Who You Know, Spaulding acknowledges that his success is greatly due to living the credo of Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People. However, It's Not Just Who You Know does more than expand or update Carnegie's classic. Spaulding has re-imagined Carnegie's ideas and infused them with his own spirit. This is a book about love. Spaulding starts off with his own story of ...
• 08.01.11
  Permalink: Joe DiMaggio Career Advice, Lessons Learned, Life Skills, Motivation, Work | (0)

  FIRST JOBS: HANDING THE BAT TO JOE DIMAGGIO by Steve Amoia for No Shortage of Work Playing baseball was Joe DiMaggio's first real job as an adult. He had worked at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco with his father, and sold newspapers as a boy. Neither job held much appeal to him. Few first jobs in life could have the impact of this one. To be a first generation Italian-American teenager with a job at the ballpark. To watch the first American sports icon, Joe DiMaggio, in a way that few could imagine. An American Cultural Icon If you ever played baseball, the mystical Joe ...
• 07.06.11
  Permalink: Teaching Pearls Education, Lessons Learned, Life Skills | (1)

  TEACHING PEARLS by: Joan Ramirez So many people talk about what is wrong with teaching today. I am going to tell you what is right. Last year, I completed my student teaching in a wonderful elementary school in New York City with several exceptional special education students in the third grade. One in particular has a stuttering problem and felt uncomfortable every time he had to talk in front of the class. In addition, he has test phobia in math. He tried several times to take a subtraction/addition test and quit after he was only half way through. On the fourth try, ...
• 06.28.11
  Permalink: Financial Journalist Career Advice, Life Skills, Work | (0)

  WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A FINANCIAL JOURNALIST by: Adrienne Rodney Journalism is everywhere. Blogs, Twitter, Podcasts – all give voice to a new generation of reporting. But is every journalist a reporter? What about finance? Is there a difference between a financial journalist and a general reporter? What do financial reporters need? KNOWLEDGE “I don’t believe anyone can be a journalist today unless they speak the language of finance,” says Toni Reinhold, editor with Thomson Reuters for more than two decades and the president of the Newswomen’s Club of New York. Reinhold believes that since every major news story has some underpinnings in finance,  every ...
• 05.12.11
  Permalink: Life Design Career Advice, Design, Fun, Games, Life Skills, Motivation | (1)

  by: Brooke Allen Jesse Schell and Dr. Randy Pausch (of "Last Lecture" fame)  co-founded Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center. Jesse was the founder of the International Game Developer's Association, and designer of Disney's Toontown Online. He is the founder of Schell Games. Jesse wrote The Art of Game Design and in it he says “Game design is the act of deciding what a game should be.” The book presents 100 “lenses” which are collections of questions to ask yourself during the design process. As I read the book, I was reminded of something my artist/businessman father told me, “Everything is about everything.” Even though I ...