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Psychology
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12.21.11Permalink: ZimbardoCAN 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.” ...
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06.30.11Permalink: DunbarDO YOU HAVE TOO MANY FRIENDS? Story by: Adrienne Rodney, Interview by: Brooke Allen Robin Dunbar, British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist at Oxford, says you can have at most 150 sensible, reciprocated relationships. This is known as the Dunbar Number, and it is discussed in his book, How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks. Our most important relationships are with our intimate friends and family - the people we love, rely on and support when times are tough. But most of the people we know make up the outer layers of our social network – our coworkers, ...
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12.13.10Permalink: The Happiness AdvantageTHE HAPPINESS ADVANTAGE Adrienne Rodney Interviews Shawn Achor, Author of The Happiness Advantage Here are a few fallacies many of us believe: If only I had a job, then I’d be happy. Once I have all the material things I’ve been after, I won’t have time to be depressed. The grass is always greener. Shawn Achor, Harvard University psychologist, lecturer and author, says we’ve got it all wrong. Happiness fuels success, not the other way around. In his book, The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work (2010, Crown Business), Achor presents the seven ways ...
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03.27.10Permalink: Are You DesperateARE YOU DESPERATE? Why is it that lazy people accuse people who are helping themselves of acting out of desperation? I was waiting for the uptown #6 subway train in New York City when I overheard a conversation between two men in early middle-age; one standing and the other sitting. The one sitting said “The market sucks; I can’t get a job.” The one standing said, “I know. I lost my job at the end of 2008 and I couldn’t find anything for nearly a year.” “Tell me about it. I haven’t worked since then either. At first I wondered what was wrong with me, ...
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01.27.10Permalink: Conversation with Tom HeinzenPSYCHOLOGY, MEMORY, SELF-DELUSION, ECONOMICS AND FINDING WORK A conversation between Brooke Allen (founder of NSoW) and Tom Heinzen who is a Professor of Psychology at William Paterson University in New Jersey, a practicing psychotherapist, and co-author of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Many Things to Tell You: Natural Poetry by People Living in Nursing Homes, and Eighty Dots. We met recently over bagels. Brooke: Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me. Tom: You are most welcome. I am very interested in the premise of No Shortage of Work; it could be of great help to my students. Brooke: How ...
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WATCH THIS VIDEO to hear Daniel Pink describe what motivates people to work. This is what No Shortage of Work is all about.
If you are unemployed, you are autonomous. We help with purpose and mastery. If you are employed, find purpose in helping those who are not. NSoW is not a commercial venture; it is created by people who believe that creating something of intrinsic value is compensation enough. (Note: We are not affiliated with the producers of this video or Daniel Pink.)