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What are the benefits of 5 acts of kindness? - ✔✔-Perceive others more positively and charitably
-Fosters a heightened sense of interdependence and cooperation in the social community -
Encourages awareness and appreciation for your own good fortune ...All jump starting an
upward spiral of positive consequences
Flow - ✔✔-Concept developed by Csikszentmihalyi
-(or engagement, the 'E' in PERMA)
-Time passes quickly
-Attention is focused on the activity itself
-The aftermath is invigorating
-Find that difficulty level where you're no longer bored but not totally anxious
Signature strength - ✔✔-An individual's most notable strength of character
Name 2-3 signature strengths - ✔✔-humor
-curiosity
-bravery
So, what are my next steps? - ✔✔-Aware, "What are my strengths?"
-Explore, connection to strengths, you at your most resilient
-Apply, using your strengths in new ways, increase in happiness/decrease in depressive symptoms
Chris Peterson - ✔✔-Worked with Seligman to create the 6 virtues
-Courage, humanity, transcendence, temperance, justice, wisdom and
knowledge -Leads to life of pleasure, engagement and meaning
,Carol S. Dweck - ✔✔-Talks about different ways people are motivated
- How achievement can affect motivation
-Growth vs. fixed mindsets
Growth mindset - ✔✔Intelligence is a malleable quality that can be developed and cultivated
through effort.
-Challenges, obstacles, effort, criticism, success of others
Fixed mindset - ✔✔Intelligence is a fixed trait that cannot be developed.
-Challenges, obstacles, effort, criticism, success of others
Willpower - ✔✔-Ability to set long term goals
-Thinking about big values rather than short-term needs or desires
-Can be depleted
Like a muscle, the more you exercise willpower, the stronger it gets
Roy Baumeister - ✔✔Chocolate and radish study
-The more you resist the temptation of the cookie, the more willpower you have
Marshmallow experiment - ✔✔-Five year old kids are put into a room and if they can wait and not
eat the first marshmallow, they'll get a second one
-Kids who exhibited early behaviors of self-regulation showed success later in life
The pros of procrastination... - ✔✔-Short term benefits, increases positive emotions, well-
being skyrockets
-Early stress relief, much healthier
-1st half of semester- lower use of health center (Tice and Baumeister, 1997)
, The cons of procrastination... - ✔✔-Significant increase in stress late in semester
-2nd half of semester- increase use of health center
-Consistently produced lower quality work/lower grades
-Early gains were more than offset by losses
Choice paralysis - ✔✔"The state of over-thinking a decision to the point that a choice never gets made,
thereby creating inaction."
Opportunity cost - ✔✔"Opportunity cost refers to a benefit that a person could have received, but
gave up, to take another course of action. Stated differently, an opportunity cost representatives an
alternative given up when a decision is made."
Maximizing vs. satisficing - ✔✔Seek and accept only the best (or aspire to do so) vs. settle for
something that is good enough (merely excellent?)
Communication Danger Signs - ✔✔-Escalation
-Invalidation
-Negative intrepretations
-Withdrawal
Rules for Speaker - ✔✔-Speak for self
-No mind-reading
-Be brief
-Stop so listener can paraphrase
Rules for listener - ✔✔-Only paraphrase
Active constructive responding - ✔✔Enthusiastic support, eye contact, authentic, "Great news! I
knew you'd do it. How do you feel?"
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