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  1. Feb 2024
    1. lazy,

      I feel like a lot of people these days are really lazy

    2. in place at a dozen companies around North America. In a ROWE people don't have schedules. They show up when they want. They don't have to be in the office at a certain time, or any time. They just have to get their work done. How they do it, when they do it, where they do it, is totally up to them. Meetings in these kinds of environments are optional. What happens? Almost across the board,

      This technique or whatever seems kinda hit or miss. Depends on the person weather the work will get done or not.

    3. his new approach. It's built much more around intrinsic motivation.

      what is this new approach

    4. What happens? People offered the medium level of rewards did no better than people offered the small rewards. But this time, people offered the highest rewards, they did the worst of all. In eight of the nine tasks we examined across three experiments, higher incentives led to worse performance. Is this some kind of touchy-feely socialist conspiracy going on here?

      this is kinda weird and crazy to me

    5. the higher the pay, the better the performance

      another idea could be is that someone could be like oh im getting payed this amount I don't need to try as hard

    6. incentivized

      ?

    7. extrinsic motivators

      ?

    8. But for a lot of tasks, they actually either don't work or, often, they do harm.

      i feel like this is true but also not but depends on the person

    9. If you want people to perform better, you reward them. Right?

      kinda like having a motivation and like goal and what the outcome will bring you

    1. t's like the most important thing about them is their date of manufacture what do you mean well i know kids who are much better than other kids at the same age in different disciplines you know or at

      i've never thought of people in school were divided up. But know that I do think about it sometimes some younger kids are like ten times smarter than me and i'm like how are you not a senior?

    2. what i do know for a fact is it's not an epidemic these kids are being medicated as routinely as we had our tonsils taken out and on the same whimsical basis and

      what can the world do to help this if it is such a common diagnosis in todays time?

    3. how do we educate our children so they have a sense of cultural identity and so that we can pass on the cultural genes of our 00:00:53 communities while being part of the process of globalization how do you square that circle the problem is they're trying to meet the future by doing what they did in the past

      I think it is important to know your culture. In my opinion it's important because it's where I came from and where my family comes from. It also may provide reasoning as to why some things are the way they are in your life.

    4. secondly we have to recognize that most great learning happens in groups the collaboration

      This seems so odd because in highschool I am told to do my work independently and almost refrain from talking to others because it can be conveyed as copying

    1. The importance of recurrence for both young and older readers involves the ability to go back, to check and evaluate one’s understanding of a text.

      I think we forget how important it is to go back and take the time to truly understand the meaning of a reading

    2. Results indicated that students who read on print were superior in their comprehension to screen-reading peers, particularly in their ability to sequence detail and reconstruct the plot in chronological order.

      how many times did they read it?

    3. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers.

      Babies and toddlers sometimes rely on pacifiers and may use as a comfort. Now they are using iPads. They are comparing pacifiers to iPads