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Use the idea of evolution to reflect on your own life so far. What have been the most power- ful moments to date? What have you ...

We need to reflect on what we have experienced and draw any nec- essary conclusions from it. Finally, the brain is a very sophis ...

Living and learning—in a nutshell 194 Power Up Your Mind YOU HAVE LEARNED: ✔that reflection is essential if our learning is to b ...

1 2Reflectiveness The purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to ...

doing, as Hamlet was able to find out about the real Claudius with the help of the players. This has always been difficult but, ...

ward to the future. You don’t reflect simply for the sake of it, use- ful as the thought process is. You reflect on something in ...

And finally, if your brain does not get feedback, it cannot know whether what it has experienced is something you want it to hav ...

At certain times of the year, I take quiet time and think through what I have seen. Then I let my mind wander around the paralle ...

to review their effectiveness and check how they work for you. Ideally, you need to reflect at two levels: on an ongoing basis a ...

Reflectiveness 201 Description Constantly seeking to add new learning techniques to your repertoire from all possible sources Id ...

When it comes to reflecting on the daily experiences of your life, you obviously will not want to be considering a long list of ...

Think of something that has gone really badly for you recently. Apply the formula above to it. Let your mind wander, as Zoe van ...

5 simple things you can do at work to reflect more 1 Ensure that all team meetings start with a brief feedback session to learn ...

more so. At British Airways, for example, we believed the British public wanted to accept us as a world airline, with world imag ...

Mike Leibling, director of Trainset, has created a good way of overcoming this barrier. He calls it feedforward. It is an excell ...

A reflective world When Samuel Beckett said, “No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better,” he was articulating an unusual vie ...

Talking about good and bad moments. Making a short “How did it go?” telephone call. Talking to a colleague about an experience. ...

Reflectiveness—in a nutshell Reflectiveness 209 YOU HAVE LEARNED: ✔about the brain science behind reflectiveness ✔that there are ...

13 Responsiveness I T HAS ALWAYS BEEN NECESSARY TO BE RESPONSIVE TO CHANGE AND PEOPLE have always reacted to the prospect of cha ...

Build on the past.
Inform people fully, dealing honestly with difficult issues.
Engage people in creating the solution.
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