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Definition: Hwyl (Welsh)

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Hwyl

[ pronounced hWIL ]
Welsh word to describe a feeling of exuberance and high spirits one might get at a party of anticipated gathering.

  • From the TEDTalk below (at about 1:05), by Tiffany Watt Smith, which includes a bunch of emotions where there are no words in English, but which you may well have experienced, but never had one single word to describe them! Or which you may go out and try to see if you can conjure up the feeling from hints in its definition for where and/or under what conditions one might experience it.

 

This feeling is probably common enough you could remember this word through using it before some, if not many, parties, to describe how you might be feeling.

Definition: Friendship Bench

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Friendship Bench

A tool for positive mental and emotional health used in various settings, where someone can sit down on a bench to talk to someone else trained in offering that help, formally or informally.

  • Wikipedia (with some of my addition to expound on the concept)

 

Hear much more about the concept, and the amazing work done Zimbabwe, where the Friendship Bench approach to therapy uses listening and “problem-solving therapy” by trained lay-counselor grandmothers, in this TEDTalks Daily podcast episode.

https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1165424318559506432

Definition: Courtesy Bias

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Courtesy Bias

A bias where people unconsciously say, and feel, things others would probably deem to be socially acceptable, rather than the truth they would feel in a different situation, especially when different people, or nobody, were present.

From the TEDTalk Daily podcast linked below…

https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1180632546708721666

 

The definition I gave above is actually a truer, and fuller, definition than those found in other places like this Alleydog site. That’s because, if you listen to the TEDTalk Daily podcast linked, we don’t always know we’re doing this! That’s why it’s a “bias” and not some completely deliberate action. Biases, rather than conscious choice, are a lot harder to fix. Sort of like how you can’t solve something if you weren’t either aware of it, or be willing to admit it. The typical given definitions suggests we are aware and making a conscious choice to show courtesy bias, but sadly, it ain’t so!

Professional Success is Proportional to Attempts, Not Age

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This isn’t the first research to show this, but perhaps the latest. Your chances at success in professional life, whether in start-ups or science, or otherwise, is proportional to the number of attempts you put in. That is, the rate is pretty much constant.

What’s not constant is your productivity. As you age, you attempt things less often, like starting new businesses, publishing papers from experiments, etc. If you try less often, given the same rate of success, it’s no wonder it seems you have more breakthroughs and big successes as you age. However, if you could only get yourself back to the same level of productivity you had once, your rates of success will be back to where it used to be!

Listen to the TEDTalk Daily podcast in the tweet below for more specifics. Also note that performance is something measurable. Success, on the other hand, is defined by us. Without us, or if we change what we deem to be success, everything associated with success can change.

https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1155608078005522432

Originals, Hidden Brain, and Innovation Tweets

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The innovation discussed

A better understanding of innovation and the ways of innovative people. Some great sources of information on the nature of innovation, how innovative people are, and how they do things, much of which are contrary to common perception.

 

What YOU can do with this innovation

  • Learn how to cultivate it, or more of it, in you and in others.
  • Understand innovation and innovative people better, starting by removing some myths you might have believed about both.

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