Comments on: Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes

By: shasta

shasta — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:41:04 +0000

For high school students, the original classroom exercise, Eye of the Storm, is probably the most effective version of the brown eyes, blue eyes exercise.. We've had the School District locally use one of the adult versions – Complete Blue Eyed – with great success. They've also used the facilitation resource – Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes: Linking Performance and Perception – to move the exercise from awareness into action in the workplace(available from http://www.trainerstoolchest.)
Still very, very powerful.

By: shasta

shasta — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:41:04 +0000

By: Outliers (or, My Momentary Not-Midlife Crisis) — worldmegan

Outliers (or, My Momentary Not-Midlife Crisis) — worldmegan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:53:20 +0000

[...] I read it out of the book sometimes, and listen to the audiobook sometimes, like I did with Made to Stick. It’s pretty leisurely as absorption goes, but it’s enjoyable. Plenty of spaces between [...]

By: Regine

Regine — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:35:35 +0000

Hi Megan,

I love this blog and the reminder that if we feel bad – we do bad, if we feel great – we do great. Malcolm Gladwell describes it also in his book Blink. It is not as immediate as in this book, but pretty scary as well. He found out through research and tests and the result was always the same: Tell somone he/she is sick, old, does not look good and does not have any energy – they show it in their movements and body posture, test scores… you name it. If you tell someone he/she is full of energy, healthy, looking good, smart… their movements and body posture is accordingly.
So let’s make vow and tell at least one person a day how great, good looking, smart he/she is. Imagine what will happen if this behavior spreads like a virus ….
Cheers,
Regine

By: Bob Poole

Bob Poole — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:41:58 +0000

Fantastic story and extremely topical for me. We’ve had a 2 year old grandson with us for the last 3 weeks and it has been an education for my wife and I to watch him respond to proactive, positive reinforcement rather than telling him what he has already done wrong. Kids can teach us so much – if we listen first!

By: Green

Green — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:45:53 +0000

Wow.

I’ve been reading To Teach by William Ayers, and this kind of relates in my brain. I’m not too far in, and it talks about how teachers are kind of crappy because not even college professors who teach teachers think teaching is a great idea. Wtf, man?

The profession as a whole is suffering as a result of this mindset that because it doesn’t make a lot of money that it’s a ‘dead end’ job, and bright young people are constantly being told that they’re “TOO SMART” to be teachers. No wonder the profession and the school system is failing.

When you feel badly you do badly.. If we’re teaching teachers to feel badly about themselves, their career, and their lives… how are they supposed to be good at what they do? Doesn’t this seem like an extra-vicious circle?