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Amplifying Your Effectiveness

Articles and Essays

Your hosts, their colleagues and you all have things to say, and stories to tell. We'll do a lot of storytelling at AYE, but why wait until then? Here's an index to articles and essays that might stimulate your thinking about what you want to get from AYE.

Send your article nomination to [email protected].

As of now, there are three lists of articles: ArticleInteraction2003, ArticleInteraction2002, ArticleInteraction2001, and ArticleInteraction2000.

Our articles come from AYE hosts and registrants. If you have something you'd like to write about for 2002 let me know. I am coordinating submissions.

BeckyWinant ([email protected])

Comments or questions?

I want to post an article that I think would be of interest to the AYE community. I did not write it but it is a subject that will resonate with many people. I could not find a more apropriate place then this page but the moderators should feel free to move (or remove) this post if they choose.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-1793873_1,00.html

As a psychology graduate working in animal- behaviour labs, Seligman discovered "learned helplessness" and became a big name. Dogs who experience electric shocks that they cannot avoid by their actions simply give up trying. They will passively endure later shocks that they could easily escape. Seligman went on to apply this to humans, with "learned helplessness" as a model for depression. People who feel battered by unsolvable problems learn to be helpless; they become passive, slower to learn, anxious and sad. This idea revolutionised behavioural psychology and therapy by suggesting the need to challenge depressed people's beliefs and thought patterns, not just their behaviour.

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Now Seligman is famous again, this time for creating the field of positive psychology.

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The aim of Seligman's therapy is to increase positive emotion (positive and negative emotions are not polar opposites and can co-exist: women have more of both than men). From the time of Buddha to the self-improvement industry of today, more than 100 "interventions" have been tried in the attempt to build happiness. Forty of these are being tested in randomised placebo-controlled trials by Seligman and his colleagues.

KenEstes 2005.10.05

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9773692/

Why Most Meetings Stink

After attending 40,000 of them, 92-year-old business whiz Simon Ramo has a few tips

KenEstes 2005.10.20

How would you like to effortlessly correct all of that "mental blockage" that's shielding the best possible results in your life? What if you could realistically set yourself free of emotional turmoil from the past, rid your life of annoying habits & poor choices, and install effective behavior patterns instead?

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Do you find yourself defaulting to the same behavioral patterns? Do you find yourself making the same poor choices in your life, again and again? Are you finding it hard to shake off old habits from the past?

Wow, for $ 40 US it is almost worth the expense to see what happens. How could we set up an experiment to gauge the effectiveness? What happens if one of the bullets misses? If I don't believe, will it still work? DonGray 2005.10.23

I found that site via spammusement This very funny site features:

Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!

Of course there was one for the above product

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KenEstes 2005.10.23