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What the Vietnam War and the Stockdale Paradox Can Teach Us About How to Face 2022

The MatrixFiles

Keeping my team and my family focused on what we CAN control : our work, our attitudes, our routines. Finding joy where I can , including walks in the snow, movie night at home, new accounts at work, amazing clients, Zooms with college buddies, and my amazing family. Not romanticizing the olden days , the “normal” days.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle

Connection Cafe

Williams character was sucked into the world of Jumanji much like the characters in the new movie. The theater Pam and I were in was filled with laughs and gasps from the other movie attendees. She calls her out on it and Bethany cops an attitude. She did this until the end of the movie. They matter too.

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Complicity, Intimacy, Community

Museum 2.0

To some extent, complicity is determined by individual attitude. For example, standing in line at a movie theater, everyone shares the excitement and energy of the show they are about to see. It makes spontaneous feelings of comfort and community possible. What makes complicity more common in some large spaces than others?

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Juneteenth Resources

Media Cause

The Black Youth Project examines the attitudes, resources, and culture of the young, urban black millennial, exploring how these factors and others influence their decision-making, norms, and behavior in critical domains such as sex, health, and politics. . . TV Shows + Movies: The 13th (Documentary) . Moonlight (Movie).

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Should Museums Be Happiness Engines?

Museum 2.0

There are few games that teach you to "feel rewarded within" or appreciate the ways that you are part of something greater, and so I wonder whether games become an assistive technology, a happiness engine, upon which people become too reliant. But the motivation is still external.

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Have a Cup of Tea with Fear

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

That's sort of trivial, but it certainly can affect one's mood and attitude. But the truth is, in this society, we are fed a diet full of fear - and I don't just mean horror movies. Encourage it to sit down with you, and teach you about itself. . Thanks for being around. You can sit over here while I handle this."

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Have a Cup of Tea with Fear

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

That's sort of trivial, but it certainly can affect one's mood and attitude. But the truth is, in this society, we are fed a diet full of fear - and I don't just mean horror movies. Encourage it to sit down with you, and teach you about itself. . Thanks for being around. You can sit over here while I handle this."

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