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I concluded from these studies that among people who are not now depressed, pessimistic explanatory style predicts who is going to get depressed. It also predicts who will stay depressed, and it predicts who will relapse after therapy. Changing explanatory style from pessimism to optimism relieves depression markedly.
Learned Optimism
Martin E.P. Seligman
Thiel left the corporate world and co-founded Confinity with Max Levchin in 1998. He began to use his knowledge of mimetic theory to help him manage both the business and his life. When competitive rivalries flared up within his company, he gave each employee clearly defined and independent tasks so they didn’t compete with one another for the same responsibilities. This is important in a start-up environment where roles are often fluid. A company in which people are evaluated based on clear performance objectives—not their performance relative to one another—minimizes mimetic rivalries.
Having the core of circus education be multidisciplinary is effectively increasing the surface area to promote more creative reactions, increasing the pace of innovation. When you have a narrow knowledge set to draw on, it's harder to come up with new ideas. Exposure to different disciplines sets up circus performers to be creative in the execution of their art. Increasing our own knowledge surface area is a solution when lack of creativity or fresh ideas is a problem.
The Great Mental Models Volume 3
Rhiannon Beaubien and Rosie Leizrowice
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