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Are you getting enough sleep? Before you answer, try this: Sometime during your workday, sit down (at your desk is fine) and close your eyes. For the next few minutes, just focus on your breathing, paying attention to each inhale and exhale. This is a standard mindfulness exercise. If you find yourself getting drowsy, then sorry, but you’re not sleeping enough. Via The Learning Factor
rodrick rajive lal's insight:
It is a good idea for organizations to have rest areas for their workers. These times offs, apart from lunch breaks should be made mandatory. In my organization, we have silence time during the beginning of the day and at the end of the day, unfortunately, a three minute silence time is simply not enough! 
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The further along you are in your career, the easier it is to fall back on the mistaken assumption that you've made it and have all the skills you need to succeed. The tendency is to focus all your energy on getting the job done, assuming that the rest will take care of itself. Big mistake. New research from Stanford tells the story. Carol Dweck and her colleagues conducted a study with people who were struggling with their performance. One group was taught to perform better on a task that they performed poorly in. The other group received a completely different intervention: for the task that they performed badly in, they were taught that they weren't stuck and that improving their performance was a choice. They discovered that learning produces physiological changes in the brain, just like exercise changes muscles. All they had to do was believe in themselves and make it happen. When the groups' performance was reassessed a few months later, the group that was taught to perform the task better did even worse. The group that was taught that they had the power to change their brains and improve their performance themselves improved dramatically. Via The Learning Factor
rodrick rajive lal's insight:
The primary takeover in life is that we should never stop learning. the moment we think that we are who we are is the moment we give away our unrealized potential. In Gandhi's own words, 'Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.'
The Learning Factor's curator insight,
March 23, 2017 6:15 PM
Some of the most important skills in life are not taught in school. Here are 9 you won't want to miss out on. 
Bryan Worn's curator insight,
March 26, 2017 1:26 AM
All these skills are learnable, some are hard at first but like driving a car they become second nature when you have enough practice.
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Everyone wants to be recognized for doing a good job, to be able to earn promotions and raises and to move up the organization. However, the path isn't always clear, and sometimes we are our own worst enemies--standing in the way of our own success. Via The Learning Factor
rodrick rajive lal's insight:
These seven proven ways are important for us because few of us are ready to speak out in meetings, few of us are ready to take up challenging work, few of us believe about showcasing our achievments and some of us don't take credit for exemplary work. In a world of cut throat competition, one has to speak out for oneself, and one has to step in before a totally unrelated person takes credit to a job done well!
Graeme Reid's curator insight,
March 16, 2015 6:50 PM
A good list of ways to ensure that you get the recognition that you deserve. 
Elías Manuel Sánchez Castañeda's curator insight,
March 17, 2015 4:40 PM
The seven tips to share with us Peter Economy to achieve promotion at work I find very valuable. However I will complementary, and that promotions in real world does not always achieved only with good practice, consider the "dark side (the hidden chart) organizations", then I completed 7 with the following tips: + Identify as measured and rewards people in the organization, in some it is not done a good job but: to be "loyal and obedient" to the boss, being a lame boots, paid to cover up or participate in matters little ethical, strike up a relationship. If you find that your company is rewarded (promoted) for some (or all) of the above reasons, you have to make a decision, quit and find an organization that applies meritocracy, or stick to change the satuo quo or to adapt and use it, IS YOUR DECISION, ARE YOUR VALUES!
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For fifty or sixty years job-seekers have been taught to write their resumes in the most opaque and unhelpful way imaginable. Job-seekers have been taught to use terse, governmental language in their resumes, so that almost every job-seeker sounds identical to every other job-seeker! That's the worst possible approach. You are not a dry, dusty person — you are lively and creative! Why not show some of that creativity and spark in your resume? Via The Learning Factor
rodrick rajive lal's insight:
This is a most important and highly informative write up by Liz Ryan! Resume writing is something we teach at school at the grade twelve level in India as part of job applications. We do not, however, don't tell our students to mention the "ten things" listed by Liz. Most of us professionals would prefer to outsource the designing of our resumes to an expert. However, for those of us who do our resumes ourselves, it would be a good idea to speak with our "own voice" and not hesitate in being "honest"! We are so used to cliches and accepted conventions that oftentimes, our resumes sound dead and boring. I will surely revisit my resume after this!
The Learning Factor's curator insight,
April 11, 2017 7:07 PM
Here are 10 essential pieces of information that do not show up on 99% of resumes -- but they should!
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There are a ton of qualities that can help you succeed, and the more carefully a quality has been studied, the more you know it's worth your time and energy. Angela Lee Duckworth was teaching seventh grade when she noticed that the material wasn't too advanced for any of her students. They all had the ability to grasp the material if they put in the time and effort. Her highest-performing students weren't those who had the most natural talent; they were the students who had that extra something that motivated them to work harder than everyone else. Angela grew fascinated by this "extra something" in her students and, since she had a fair amount of it herself, she quit her teaching job so that she could study the concept while obtaining a graduate degree in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her study, which is ongoing, has already yielded some interesting findings. She's analyzed a bevy of people to whom success is important: students, military personnel, salespeople, and spelling bee contestants, to name a few. Over time, she has come to the conclusion that the majority of successful people all share one critical thing--grit. Grit is that "extra something" that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel to stick with our dreams until they become a reality. Via The Learning Factor
rodrick rajive lal's insight:
Grit, doggedness, and the ability to plod in spite of odds that seem to be heaped against us are the age old qualities identified in successful people. This reminds me about how Robert the Bruce gained inspiration from a spider that fell down each time it climbed up on to a web. This happened many times and finally it managed to climb on. Robert gained a lot of inspiration from this incident. In many cases successful people are also self-motivated, and they don't go for instant gratification. The Article, 11 Signs gave me reason to savour life in spite of all the spanners it might throw into the works!
The Learning Factor's curator insight,
February 11, 2016 4:45 PM
Grit is as difficult to develop as it is important. Learn how to build this skill and give yourself an edge in life. |
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