We use the term “Habits of Mind” to mean having a disposition toward behaving intelligently when confronted with problems to which we do not immediately know the answers.These Habits of Mind may serve as mental disciplines. When confronted with problematic situations, students, parents, and teachers might habitually employ one or more of these Habits of Mind by asking themselves, “What is the most intelligent thing I can do right now?”<ul><li>How can I learn from this? </li><li>What are my resources? </li><li>How can I approach this problem flexibly? </li><li>How can I draw upon my repertoire of problem-solving strategies? </li></ul>

Habits Of Mind

The 16 Habits of Mind identified by Costa and Kallick include:<ul><li>Persisting</li><li>Thinking and communicating with clarity and precision</li><li>Managing impulsivity</li><li>Gathering data through all senses</li><li>Listening with understanding and empathy</li><li>Creating, imagining, innovating</li><li>Thinking flexibly</li><li>Responding with wonderment and awe</li><li>Thinking about thinking (metacognition)</li><li>Taking responsible risks</li><li>Striving for accuracy</li><li>Finding humor</li><li>Questioning and posing problems</li><li>Thinking interdependently</li><li>Applying past knowledge to new situations</li><li>Remaining open to continuous learning</li></ul>

The 16 Habits of Mind

<ul><li>Considers how mental models (i.e., attitudes and beliefs derived from experience) affect current reality and the future</li><li>Uses understanding of system structures to identify possible leverage actions</li><li>Considers both short- and long-term consequences of actions</li><li>Finds where unintended consequences emerge</li><li>Recognizes the impact of time delays when exploring cause and effect relationships</li><li>Checks results and changes actions if needed:, “successive approximation”</li></ul>

13 HABITS OF A SYSTEMS THINKER

The Water Foundation has identified 13 Habits of a Systems Thinker.<ul><li>Seeks to understand the “big picture”</li><li>Observes how elements within systems change over time, generating patterns and trends</li><li>Recognizes that a system’s structure generates its behavior: focuses on structure, not on blame</li><li>Identifies the circular nature of complex cause and effect relationships, i.e. interdependencies</li><li>Changes perspectives</li><li>Surfaces and tests assumptions</li><li>Considers an issue fully and resists the urge to come to a quick conclusion</li></ul>

The “habits of mind” – the routines of the affective system – enable us to associate those emotions (and feelings that follow them) with the corresponding experiences.

A quick tour of Costa and Kallick’s 16 Habits of Mind, along with suggestions for implementing them as classroom best practices.

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The RACI matrix roles highlight the level at which a stakeholder or team member is involved with a particular task.<ol><li>Responsible: A manager or team member who is directly responsible for successfully completing a project task.</li><li>Accountable: The person with final authority over the successful completion of the specific task or deliverable.</li><li>Consulted: Someone with unique insights the team will consult.</li><li>Informed: A client or executive who isn’t directly involved, but you should keep up to speed.</li></ol>

What are the RACI Roles?

Pros:<ol><li>Maintain clear and open communication with all stakeholders.</li><li>Avoid overwhelming team members with tasks or unnecessary information.</li><li>Avoid “too many cooks” offering input on any task.</li><li>Help stakeholders prepare for a project’s future impact on their work.</li></ol>Cons:<ol><li>You might spend time unnecessarily creating the chart for simple projects.</li><li>Roles are rigid and might not fully illustrate a team member’s stake in a project.</li></ol>

Pros And Cons Of RACI

Use the RACI matrix for:<ul><li>Large-scale projects with clear-cut deliverables or workgroups</li><li>Organizations that have static roles and responsibilities</li><li>Projects with a wide variety of stakeholders for different aspects</li><li>Projects spanning multiple departments</li><li>Projects in highly regulated industries</li></ul>Don’t use the RACI matrix for:<ul><li>Small, single-department projects — it’s likely not necessary</li><li>Teams working with an Agile framework like Scrum</li></ul>

When To Use And Avoid

A RACI matrix, also called a RACI chart, is a type of responsibility assignment matrix (RAM) in project management. In practice, it’s a simple spreadsheet or table that lists all stakeholders on a project and their level involvement in each task, denoted with the letters R, A, C or I. Once these roles are defined, assignments can be attributed to the roles and work can begin.

RACI Matrix: Project Management Tool

Projects require many people's involvement, but how do we avoid a situation where people are struggling against one another to do a task.

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<ol><li>Set realistic goals, adjust as needed</li><li>REST is not for the week, take breaks</li><li>Get some accountability</li><li>Define clearer work-life boundaries</li><li>Meditate to clear our head</li></ol>

How To Heal Toxic Productivity

Toxic productivity is the outsized desire for productivity at all times and at the expense of our other priorities, from family life to hobbies.If we’re constantly working while rarely engaging in hobbies, which allow us the opportunity to destress, we can see how easily it is to eventually stop doing everything all together.<ul><li>Toxic productivity inevitably also leads us to feeling burnt out. By working ourselves to the point of exhaustion we eventually lose our will to do simple everyday things like texting someone back or cooking a meal. </li></ul>

Toxic Productivity

<ol><li>Inability to turn off: We feel unable to shut off work-related tasks to rest, enjoy hobbies, or spend time with friends and family.</li><li>Guilt about productivity: We feel guilty about not getting enough work done, even when we are completing a reasonable amount of work-related tasks. </li><li>Problems with health or personal relationships: We begin to experience issues with our health or personal relationships due to the above issues. Significant others may feel they are getting less of our time or attention than work. </li></ol>

Sign If We're Suffering From Toxic Productivity

Leave work feeling satisfied with what you’ve accomplished, with help of a few “productivity hacks”.

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“I almost ended up working and doing more than in my usual office days, because I felt so anxious about losing that sense of stability. I became really frantic and obsessive,” ~ Clare

Toxic productivity causes dedicated individuals to bite off more than they can chew in order to climb a career ladder that doesn't exist.

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Intelligence can be developed. Leads to a desire to learn and therefore a tendency to... <ul><li>Challenges: embrace challenges</li><li>Obstacles: persist in the face of setbacks</li><li>Effort: see effort as the path to mastery</li><li>Criticism: learn from criticism</li><li>Success of Others: find lessons and inspiration in the success of others</li></ul>As a result, they reach ever-higher levels of achievement. All this gives them a greater sense of will.

Growth Mindset In Detail

There are two main mindsets we can navigate life with: growth and fixed. A. The Fixed MindsetOur view of ourselves can determine everything. If we believe that our qualities are unchangeable — the fixed mindset — we will want to prove ourselves correct over and over rather than learning from our mistakes.

1.1 The Two Mindsets

B. The Growth MindsetThe passion for stretching ourselves and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives. In short, having a growth mindset is essential for success. The growth mindset creates a powerful passion for learning.

1.2 The Two Mindsets

Intelligence is static. Leads to a desire, to look smart and therefore a tendency to... <ul><li>Challenges: avoid challenges</li><li>Obstacles: give up easily</li><li>Effort: see effort as fruitless or worse</li><li>Criticism: ignore useful negative feedback</li><li>Success of Others: feel threatened by the success of others</li></ul>As a result, they may plateau early and achieve less than their full potential. All this confirms as deterministic view of the world.

Fixed Mindset In Detail

<ol><li>Be curious. </li><li>Be optimistic.</li><li>Listen to your inner voice: believe in yourself. </li><li>Make a conscious choice.</li><li>Replace the negative with the positive. </li><li>Use the power of “yet”.</li><li>Take Action! </li></ol>

7 Steps To Developing A Growth Mindset. 

Reveals how established attitudes affect all aspects of one's life, explains the differences between fixed and growth mindsets, and stresses the need to be open to change in order to achieve fulfillment and success.

From the renowned psychologist who introduced the world to “growth mindset” comes this updated edition of the million-copy bestseller—featuring transformative insights into redefining success, building lifelong resilience, and supercharging self-improvement. “Through clever research studies and engaging writing, Dweck illuminates how our beliefs about our capabilities exert tremendous influence on how we learn and which paths we take in life.”—Bill Gates, GatesNotes “It’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.” After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset—those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment. In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love—to transform their lives and your own.

Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., is one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of motivation and is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Her research has focused on why people succeed and how to foster success. She has held professorships at Columbia and Harvard Universities, has lectured all over the world, and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her scholarly book Self-Theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development was named Book of the Year by the World Education Federation. Her work has been featured in such publications as The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, and she has appeared on Today and 20/20.

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“We control our thoughts and our mind is a powerful tool in which we can use to our advantage. ” - Anonymous<ul><li>Fear keeps us comfortable with where we are at, get out of our comfort zone. </li><li>It’s easier to stay in our routine because we know what to expect day in and day out, experience the unknown. </li><li>Committing to something takes a lot of work and immediate results are rare, however commitment brings progress. </li></ul>

Key Takeaways PT. 1

<ul><li>99% of the world are consumers while we make up the 1% of creators, we’re bound to get judged and that’s okay. </li><li>Failure is only final if we don’t try or give up. </li><li>Don’t let the mindset of “More success = More problems” set you back. </li><li>You’ll never be perfect, enjoy the process of trial and error. </li><li>It’s all in our head, think and speak ourself into existence. </li></ul>

Key Takeaways PT. 2

Fear is much more complex as there are different varieties that hold us back. Most people hold themselves back due to the fear of:<ol><li>The unknown</li><li>Commitment</li><li>Putting themselves out there</li><li>Failing</li><li>Actually succeeding</li><li>Not being perfect immediately</li></ol>

About What We Mostly Fear

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” - Franklin D. RooseveltTaking the first step means going towards a different place. Somewhere new, where things may not go as we planned or expected. Taking the first step means exposing ourselves to failure and rejection.

The First Step Is Always The Hardest

The fear of taking the first step is the main thing that sabotages our dreams, both big and small. It’s precisely in that first step where most people get stuck because fear takes a hold of us. However, if we get going, then our fears will magically dissolve. As soon as we hit the road, we’ll most likely end up realizing that we’re a lot more capable than we thought we were when we began.

The Fear of Taking the First Step

Summary: Want to get yourself into a new habit or accomplish something new? Find out why taking the first step is so hard and how you can overcome this problem.

Why the First Step Is Always the Hardest

"A route without a destination, however, may be efficient, but what to end?"
~Simon Sinek

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