Blink:
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Reading Assignment:
As you read Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, annotate the text and keep HANDWRITTEN NOTES on notebook paper.
- ANNOTATE WHAT YOU READ: Use the annotation strategies from Interrogating Texts: 6 Habits to Develop Your First Year at Harvard. Use these questions as your baseline: What would you like to discuss as a class when we talk about this particular section of the book? What resonates with you as you think about this section? What were his most important points?
- Make sure that your annotations demonstrate ACTIVE and ENGAGED reading.
- CONNECT A FEW TOPICS FROM BLINK TO SOCIAL IDENTITY AND MENTAL MODELS: You have the freedom to take notes in a way that you control; however, you must have a dedicated section of your notes for each reading assignment that compares the section/chapters to the CCL lessons we have discussed in class (social identity and mental models).
Selective Attention Test
Resources for Discussion
Chapter 3: The Warren Harding Error
Harvard's Race IAT Test
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"Many people who looked at Warren Harding saw how extraordinarily handsome and distinguished-looking he was and and jumped to the immediate - and entirely unwarranted - conclusion that he was a man of courage and intelligence and integrity. They didn't dig below the surface. The way he looked carried so many powerful connotations that it stopped the normal process of thinking dead in its tracks" (Gladwell 89).
Chapter 4: Paul Van Riper's Big Victory
Successful Spontaneity
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If improvisational comedy is governed by rules and requires practice like any other sport, could anyone be a stand-up comic or performer? Or, will some people always naturally be better at thinking on their toes and more adept at unleashing spontaneity? |
Further Reading: Yes, And: Lessons from The Second City
Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City
The Second City has launched the careers of celebrated comic performers such as Tina Fey and Stephen Colbert and produced award-winning content. But it's the actual improvisational process developed and honed over the years by The Second City that has become its legacy. Players master an ability to co-create in ensembles, using philosophies that celebrate a "Yes, And" approach. They embrace authenticity and failure, and espouse the idea of "following the follower," which allows any member of the team to assume a leadership role.
For more than two decades, The Second City has taken these same principles in thousands of corporate clients, showing leaders how to apply the tools of improv to common business challenges. Here, for the first time, Second City executives Kelly Leonard and Tom Yorton describe how you can use the same skills that thrill audiences around the world to improve your emotional intelligence, increase creativity, and learn to pivot out of tight and uncomfortable situations. In this engaging, often humorous, and highly practical book, you will learn how to become a more compelling leader and a more collaborative follower by employing the seven elements of improv:
More people are beginning to recognize what The Second City has known for a long time: In the midst of a revolution in how we learn, communicate, and work, professional success often rests on the same pillars that form the foundation of great comedy: Creativity, Communication, and Collaboration. That's where improvisation comes in.
The Second City has launched the careers of celebrated comic performers such as Tina Fey and Stephen Colbert and produced award-winning content. But it's the actual improvisational process developed and honed over the years by The Second City that has become its legacy. Players master an ability to co-create in ensembles, using philosophies that celebrate a "Yes, And" approach. They embrace authenticity and failure, and espouse the idea of "following the follower," which allows any member of the team to assume a leadership role.
For more than two decades, The Second City has taken these same principles in thousands of corporate clients, showing leaders how to apply the tools of improv to common business challenges. Here, for the first time, Second City executives Kelly Leonard and Tom Yorton describe how you can use the same skills that thrill audiences around the world to improve your emotional intelligence, increase creativity, and learn to pivot out of tight and uncomfortable situations. In this engaging, often humorous, and highly practical book, you will learn how to become a more compelling leader and a more collaborative follower by employing the seven elements of improv:
- Yes, And, by which you give every idea a chance to be acted on;
- Ensemble, reconciling the needs of individuals with those of the broader team;
- Co-creation, which highlights the importance of dialogue in creating new products, processes, and relationships;
- Authenticity, or being unafraid to speak truth to power, challenge convention, and break the rules;
- Failure, teaching us that not only is it okay to fail, but we should always include it as part of our process;
- Follow the Follower, which gives any member of the group the chance to assume a leadership role;
- Listening, in which you learn to stay in the moment, and know the difference between listening to understand and listening merely to respond.
More people are beginning to recognize what The Second City has known for a long time: In the midst of a revolution in how we learn, communicate, and work, professional success often rests on the same pillars that form the foundation of great comedy: Creativity, Communication, and Collaboration. That's where improvisation comes in.
Chapter 5: Kenna's Dilemma
What's with all of the "hairy arms" in graphic design?
So, what does the Aeron chair really look like?
Aeron Chairs
Famous for supporting the widest range of the human form, the Aeron office chair has been remastered to better meet the needs of today's work and workers.
The Hate U Give & Reflections on the Diallo Shooting
Malcolm Gladwell, Speaker
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