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Belonging Booster: Values Affirmation Exercise

May 23, 2019 By Dave Stuart Jr. 5 Comments

Recently, my students gave me a boost in teacher morale through their completion of a simple intervention that I believe supports the value, belonging, and credibility beliefs. (These are three of the five key beliefs that I write about in Chapter 2 of These 6 Things; I overview the beliefs in this blog post.) The […]

The Five Key Fears?

May 21, 2019 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

“As a specialist in learning disabilities, I have found that the most dangerous disability is not any formally diagnosable condition like dyslexia or ADD. It is fear.” — “Overloaded Circuits,” by Edward M. Hallowell in Harvard Business Review’s Managing Yourself The absence of the five key beliefs might be the five key fears. If student […]

The Pedestal Isn’t Real

May 16, 2019 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

The thing with living inside your life while also writing a blog is that you can hardly tell what your life looks like to someone who is just reading the blog. The people I teach with know a lot of my issues. They know that my desk is often a mess, that there are stacks […]

You’re in the Montage

May 14, 2019 By Dave Stuart Jr. Leave a Comment

Everyone loves a good montage. Rocky runs through the streets of Philly.* The Mighty Ducks start working together as a team. Iron Man builds some stuff. Luke trains with Yoda. The climbers make their ascent. The montage sequence is cool. It’s this string of images where people work hard, solve problems, and persist. They’re sweating, […]

Complicated Isn’t Good

May 9, 2019 By Dave Stuart Jr. 4 Comments

“A complex system, contrary to what people believe, does not require complicated systems and regulations and intricate policies. The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.” Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, p. 11 One of my most helpful weaknesses is that I have a simple mind. I’m […]

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