we can get better at this! we need to spend more time talking to others (friends, colleagues, strangers) rather than being isolated!
Debra Fine
#CommunicationMatters

🌟This week we had the privilege of welcoming Prof Cass Sunstein to PBS as part of our Behavioural Science & the Wider World series.

🛒Prof Sunstein talked about 'The Barbie Problem: Goods That People Buy But Wish Did Not Exist'.

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Markus Eriksen rafted across the Pacific Ocean from California to Hawaii on JUNK, floating on 15,000 plastic bottles and an airplane cockpit as a cabin.

The journey, 2,600 miles in 88 days, brought attention to the work of 5 Gyres and #plasticpollution : bit.ly/2GfLiD8

These questions are the perfect guide to buying LESS and loving what you already own!

Looking for more tips? Join our Closet Audit Workshop TOMORROW! Take the pledge to #DoLessForThePlanet to get access: 5gyres.org/dolessforthepl…

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In this episode of Studio B on AI, Nobel Peace Prize laureate @MariaRessa and Urvashi Aneja discuss the impact of AI on the Global South.
From labour to democracy, they uncover vital questions about the true costs and beneficiaries.

Watch on Al Jazeera English
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Exciting news! We've just announced a new AI Opportunity Initiative for Europe, with:
🎓 €25 million to support AI skills development
🚀Support to help health, education, and cybersecurity AI startups to scale globally
✒️ Free AI courses in 18 languages.
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🤖Google has unveiled a new initiative to provide AI skills training in Europe.

The multinational tech giant said they would start by providing €10 million to equip Europeans with new skills 'to avoid being left behind'. euronews.com/next/2024/02/1…

“Compete with yourself and root for everybody else.”

— Candice Millard

Unisciti al 1° User Meeting Italiano delle Infrastrutture Blocca il calendario e scopri ogni settimana le novità. Oggi vi sveliamo il primo dei testimonial che interverranno! Stay tuned! #AutodeskLife autode.sk/3ApNZf2

I always like the story told about a former CEO of Toyota who, when asked why people could never find him in his office, answered 'that's because we don't make cars in my office'...

Honored that 'Don't Trust Your Gut' made this list, along with books by Zoe Chance Ayelet Fishbach @NinaMazar Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 Daniel Pink Michael Slepian John A. List Erez Yoeli Moshe Hoffman Lise Vesterlund Arthur Brooks behavioralscientist.org/behavioral-sci… via Behavioral Scientist

'The risk is not machines thinking like people, but quite the opposite, people thinking like machines' - in an age of exploding analytical capacity we need to balance this by developing a new level of systems awareness, this article discusses: bit.ly/3ZOvoU4

'Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes' _ Russell Ackoff.

Are you looking for skills to enhance your organization's performance? Look no further than the Think Wrong Facilitators Intensive hosted by Solve Next and Voltage Control in Austin, Texas, USA | April 18-20, 2023! Use VC10 at checkout for 10% off!

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In 1966, media futurist Marshall McLuhan envisioned a form of digital research eerily similar to the customized queries now answered by AI. Then he makes a surprising admission about why he studies technological change—with a lesson I think many need to hear.

“Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.” —Donella Meadows #PKMastery
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Want the techniques Google used to train engineers on difficult conversations?

Top experts in Psychology, EQ, and Neuroscience developed the course.

Here’s the step-by-step method that got results (that you can use, too):

This quote, attributed to the writer Flannery O'Connor expresses why it is so important to keep a journal: “I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.” #journaling

3 states of mind & body that matter most & indeed are so central to our ongoing progress, balance & health that they should be scheduled into every 24hrs.
1) Sense of reward from effort & focus.
2) Relaxing & enjoying life (incl. sleep).
3) Honest reflection/contemplation.

Lifestyle coach Michelle Segar steers away from building habits as a behavior change tool, but focuses instead on mindsets.

Listen to our latest podcast: 'Why The Best Choice Can Sometimes Be An Imperfect Choice' with Michelle as she talks about her book The Joy Choice.