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  1. Last 7 days
    1. more!

      Flow: being really engaged and perfect level of hardness, perfect challenge, rewarding Mindfulness: focused awareness on what is going on right then - being in place, grounded in present. Learned optimism - can create joy, can control the future and life - what students need. Well being isn't just fortune, but you can do things to improve it.

  2. May 2026
    1. I have difficulty accepting advice from other people.

      I think this is where I see students/teacher needing to work - how to and receive constructive criticism to grow on both sides.

    2. flourish

      I think this is true in education - you have to go into any class with the belief that you have something to learn or you won't. If you walk into a class feeling that you already know it or that the teacher has nothing to offer you, you won't learn. A humble student knows they have much to learn. But the same is also true of the teacher - they need to make sure they realize they have things to learn as well as that symbiotic relationship can be magic.

    3. students who practice gratitude increase their grade point average.

      How could you turn this into something that you could practice in class? I think of things like "good things" in primary school, but could this also be done at a college level without students shrugging it off?

    4. others

      I think this also is crucial for students with bad experiences in education - they need to forgive the educator that they feel wronged them or they can't often move on and focus on learning new material as they continually just feel bad about it.

    1. human strengths.

      This can be very helpful to students - not what they are bad at, but what they are good at. The difference between you got 2 wrong rather than 18 right.

    2. I think this can be very helpful with students - seeing their strengths. The focus not on what they are bad at, but what they are good at and how to enhance that.