Two Ginger Cats

Thursday, 26 March 2015

The Non-Facebook Post #48

From a HONY post dated 26 March 2015,

"I want to be a ballerina."
"What's the best part about being a ballerina?"
"Dancing."
"What's the hardest part about being a ballerina?"
"Dancing in front of people."

A commenter's take on that post,

"Translates to real world: what's the best thing about life? Being yourself. What's the hardest thing about life? Being yourself in front of people."
- LewieCharles Tran

From Carol Dweck's TED talk The Power of Believing that You Can Improve

"...if you get a failing grade, you think, I'm nothing, I'm nowhere. But if you get the grade "Not Yet"you understand that you're on a learning curve. It gives you a path into the future."

"...the growth mindset, the idea that abilities can be developed."

"Here are some things we can do. First of all, we can praise wisely, not praising intelligence or talent. That has failed. Don't do that anymore. But praising the process that kids engage in: their effort, their strategies, their focus, their perseverance, their improvement."

"Just the words "yet" or "not yet," we're finding, give kids greater confidence, give them a path into the future that creates greater persistence. And we can actually change students' mindsets."

" ... every time they push out of their comfort zone to learn something new and difficult, the neurons in their brain can form new, stronger connections, and over time they can get smarter."

"This happened because the meaning of effort and difficulty were transformed. Before, effort and difficulty made them feel dumb, made them feel like giving up, but now, effort and difficulty, that's when their neurons are making new connections, stronger connections. That's when they're getting smarter."

The Non-Facebook Post #46

Why does no one stick to speed limits while driving?!

Everyone's surging way ahead on roads, way past the allowed speeds.

The Non-Facebook Post #45

It was too good to be true, just too good!

"Oh serendipitous, serendipitous day! When you go get your driving license renewed and, by happy accident, are also well dressed enough to not have a deer-caught-in-headlights headshot clicked for your new license!"
February 4, 2015. 11:51 am.

Yeah! Which is why Fate cruelly conspires with Bureaucracy to turn events around so that you're in a position of having to redo all your paperwork for the license, and get another headshot clicked. And lo and behold! Now, the picture of you that's to be printed on your new (yet again) license is how it should be - the ritualistic, ugly 'deer caught in headlights' sorta image.

Well anyway, here's hoping four times is a charm and I don't have to go through the whole rigmarole again, for something as simple as being able to renew my driving license. You, Bureaucracy, I'm talking to you!

The Non-Facebook Post #44

"I was wondering if I could get her signature here to show I stopped by to deliver but he wasn't here?"

"Her?!"

"She's not mine! She's a stray!"

All in a day's work!