Mindshifting is recognizing and shifting from the mindsets that hold us back to the mindsets that push us forward. I write about mindsets, Mindshifting, learning, and education, with the hope that these posts give readers more power over their own lives and helps them give others, like their students, more power as well.
Useful Ideas for 2025
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Gurwinder Bhogal published an intriguing list of 25 Useful Ideas for 2025. A list of 25 is too many. Maybe my little brain can remember three. On the other hand, these are all thought-provoking. The 25th is on Sphexishness. Sphexishness is when you blindly follow a rule without checking if the rule works in the present situation. Gurwinder Bhogal has a great example. Ants follow each others’ pheromes which lead them to food and back home. But some ants may start moving in a circle, and all the other ants will follow their loop, circularly following each other until they die of exhaustion. Virtually all bureaucracies are sphexish. Our limbic systems are spexish. Luckily we have a prefrontal cortex, and if we could only learn how to use it properly we’d be better thinkers, innovators, collaborators, and even happier. Here are three other useful ideas that are specifically related to mindsets and MindShifting (they are all useful and interesting, though). Region-Beta Paradox:Often we fail to improve our lives simply because things don't get bad enough. If your new job is hell, you’ll leave it, but if it’s just unsatisfying, you’ll likely grind it out. Thus, small problems often threaten our quality of life more than big ones. Event BiasOne reason negativity dominates the news is that bad news tends to happen suddenly while good news tends to happen gradually so is rarely newsworthy on any particular day. But even though it may not get as much attention, good news is always happening. Explanatory InversionQuestions rest on unexamined assumptions, so always try flipping them. For instance, don’t just ask why there is poverty, ask why there is prosperity. This is a great brainstorming technique and dramatically changes your perspective. How will you use these ideas in 2025 to live a happier more fulfilling life? |
Mindshifting Educators
Mindshifting is recognizing and shifting from the mindsets that hold us back to the mindsets that push us forward. I write about mindsets, Mindshifting, learning, and education, with the hope that these posts give readers more power over their own lives and helps them give others, like their students, more power as well.
There is lots of excitement in MindShifting Land. Here are three announcements. Announcement 1 First of all, there are two more courses left in this school year: MindShifting: Flexible Mindsets for Long Term Success starting on April 22 MindShifting: Mastering Your Resourceful Brain starting on May 20 Educators in Washington can register through pdEnroller, and educators in NY can register through Frontline. And here is the MindShifting courses page for everyone else. Announcement 2 Second,...
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On March 18, 2025 we finished up the MindShifting: Conflict and Collaboration course with 12 presentations on lessons that participants created. These are so inspiring, there were lessons for young children through high school, lessons for adults, posters, a song, and an AI generated podcast about a technique to de-escalate a confrontation with a student. You won't want to miss these. The next MindShifting class starts April 22 (NY teachers can find the course on Frontline, WA teachers can...