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Confirmation Bias

It is the tendency to seek out information that affirms your beliefs and ignore information that opposes your beliefs.

How to use this: “It’s been so hard to try and change his mind about this project. I think confirmation bias is really impacting his decision-making.”

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Personalizing your current job in a way that feels energizing and helps you stay relevant.

How to use this: “I’ve been job crafting by taking on a more creative branding project in addition to just crunching data as an analyst.”

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Developing A Growth Mindset

Try practicing these three things:

  • Don’t blame circumstances for your mistakes. Instead, use them as an opportunity to learn about yourself.
  • When faced with an unfamiliar situation, don’t run or hide. Try to tackle it to the best of your abilities.
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Executive Presence

It is the ability to inspire confidence in others to believe in and follow you.

To build executive presence, become aware of your communication style, actively seek feedback, make small changes to your behaviour that feel authentic, and be mentally present during conversations.

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Everyone Is Checking You Out

How often do you search Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Instagram before meeting someone new? All the time, right? Everyone is checking you out online, too.

The “first” impression of you isn’t when you actually make contact, it’s when someone pulls up your profiles and makes snap judgments b...

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Divergent Thinking

Divergent Thinking is a method of thinking that allows us to consider various solutions to a problem and discover new points of view. It is also known as thinking “outside of the box.”

How to use this: “I was able to do some divergent thinking after journaling this morning....

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How To Think Differently

Take two or three mundane office or household items (like a sock, a paperclip, or a pencil) and brainstorm as many alternative uses as you can for each. For example, a sock can be used as a washcloth, a paperclip as a keychain, and a pencil as a hair curler.

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Growth Mindset

A growth mindset is a belief that your abilities can be developed over time by learning to embrace failures, facing difficult situations with resilience, and seeking help along the way.

To build a growth mindset, remind yourself that your failure is not a sign of incompetence, Rather, it’s...

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Confirmation bias

People don't like to rethink their beliefs once they are formed. 

We would rather ignore information that would challenge our ideas than engage with threatening new information. This is called "confirmation bias".

Confirmation Bias

Is the tendency to focus on new information that confirms pre-existing beliefs and trivialize anything that might challenge those beliefs. 

How to control it: Seek out information that goes against your pre-existing beliefs.

Fighting Confirmation Bias

Confirmation bias is when we are focused on only the ideas and information that align with our existing set of beliefs and reject any information that challenges our existing ‘schemas’.

If we become aware of our confirmation bias, we are able to see our lopsided way of eva...

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