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Reality Check: Strategy for Forgetfulness
Anecdotal evidence suggests that lots of folks fear that they are forgetful. Last column, I suggested that one reason people feel overwhelmed is because they are. We’re busy, perhaps anxious, yet tasks keep coming. We lose track and forget. While … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
Tagged anxiety, choosing actions, frustration, responsibility
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Reality Check: Fear of Forgetfulness
Are you feeling forgetful? If so, you are not alone. I’d been under the impression that it’s the “seasoned citizen” demographic who is most aware of the forgetfulness issue. So I was surprised during a recent e-learning session when the … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Perspective
Tagged anxiety, frustration, perception, worry
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Reality Check: Working with Unpredictable People
While we can never predict exactly what will happen, many situations are quite predictable. It’s painful to touch the hot stove. If I don’t believe it, it only takes one try to learn a lesson I won’t soon forget. Likewise, … Continue reading
Posted in Relationships
Tagged conflict, frustration, perception, work
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Reality Check: An Attitude About Forgetting
Last post, I used a personal example to discuss the challenge of forgetfulness. I had devoted considerable time learning how to use a piece of software. But by the time I needed to use that knowledge, it seemed that all … Continue reading
Posted in Learning
Tagged "should", choosing actions, choosing thoughts, frustration, reality
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Reality Check: The Challenge of Forgetfulness
Do you believe that you are forgetful? If so, do you find that troubling? Recently, I explored some research around learning and what we might do to help people retain what they’ve learned. I had looked at this research before, … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, frustration, learning
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Reality Check: The Disillusioned Learner
Barb tried gardening last year for the first time. It was awesome! Barb was ecstatic with her beautiful tomatoes and huge cucumbers. Her marigolds flowered and her sunflowers were so very sunny. Barb was hooked. All winter, she said, “I … Continue reading
Posted in Learning
Tagged dissatisfaction, encouragement, frustration, learning, persistence
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Reality Check: The Joy of Mastery
In a talk on mastery, Sal Khan discusses the difficulty inherent in an educational process that pushes people to learn new material before they’ve mastered fundamentals. Mastery of learning is an appropriate topic for Khan. He’s the founder of khanacademy.org, … Continue reading
Posted in Develop Understanding
Tagged confidence, frustration, fun, learning, perception
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Reality Check: Change–Like it or Not? Part 1
If you’re a person or group promoting a change that’s being met with opposition, it can be comforting to blame the opposition on the assertion “people don’t like change.” When you believe that you are facing resistance because other people … Continue reading
Posted in Making a Change
Tagged choosing actions, frustration, offering information, perception
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Reality Check: The Impulse to Vent
Have you ever felt that frustration has control of you? That you can’t hold back; you have to let it out somehow? If so, how well has that “letting out” worked for you? Venting can feel really good at the … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
Tagged choosing actions, conflict, frustration, self-evaluation
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