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<TOPIC 1 > Improving Emotional Health
People who are emotionally healthy are in control of their emotions and their behavior. They are able to handle life’s inevitable challenges, build strong relationships, and lead productive, fulfilling lives. When bad things happen, they’re able to bounce back and move on.
Unfortunately, too many people take their mental and emotional health for granted – focusing on it only when they develop problems. But just as it requires effort to build or maintain physical health, so it is with mental and emotional health. The more time and energy you invest in your emotional health, the stronger it will be. The good news is that there are many things you can do to boost your mood, build resilience, and get more enjoyment out of life.
Being emotionally and mentally healthy doesn’t mean never going through bad times or experiencing emotional problems. We all go through disappointments, loss, and change. And while these are normal parts of life, they can still cause sadness, anxiety, and stress.
The difference is that people with good emotional health have an ability to bounce back from adversity, trauma, and stress. This ability is called resilience. People who are emotionally and mentally healthy have the tools for coping with difficult situations and maintaining a positive outlook. They remain focused, flexible, and creative in bad times as well as good.
One of the key factors in resilience is the ability to balance your emotions. The capacity to recognize your emotions and express them appropriately helps you avoid getting stuck in depression, anxiety, or other negative mood states. Another key factor is having a strong support network. Having trusted people you can turn to for encouragement and support will boost your resilience in tough times.
Taking care of your body is a powerful first step towards mental and emotional health. The mind and the body are linked. When you improve your physical health, you’ll automatically experience greater mental and emotional well-being. For example, exercise not only strengthens our heart and lungs, but also releases endorphins, powerful chemicals that energize us and lift our mood. The activities you engage in and the daily choices you make affect the way you feel physically and emotionally.
In order to maintain and strengthen your mental and emotional health, it’s also important to pay attention to your own needs and feelings. Don’t let stress and negative emotions build up. Try to maintain a balance between your daily responsibilities and the things you enjoy. If you take care of yourself, you’ll be better prepared to deal with challenges if and when they arise.
If you’ve made consistent efforts to improve your mental and emotional health and you still don’t feel good – then it’s time to seek professional help. Because we are so socially attuned, input from a knowledgeable, caring professional can motivate us to do things for ourselves that we were not able to do on our own.
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1. What makes you feel stressed out? How do you relieve stress?
2. What do you do for your emotional and mental health? (friends, books, movies, etc.)
3. Who do you usually talk to about your problems?
4. Have you ever got help from professional doctors or thought about it seriously? If so, share your stories with us.
5. Do you think physical health has a lot to do with mental health?
6. Have you ever helped anyone who was in trouble emotionally? What did you do to help him/her?
<Topic 2> People Judge in the Blink off an Eye
Talk about snap judgments! People decide whether another person is trustworthy within a tenth of a second, a new study suggests. Researchers flashed photographs to about 200 test subjects, in some cases for 1 second and in others for a small fraction of a second. The participants were asked to rate each face and also to state how confident they were in their conclusions. "If given more time, people's fundamental judgment about faces did not change," said Princeton University psychologist Alex Todorov. "Observers simply became more confident in their judgments as the duration lengthened"
Todorov has done similar research in the past. It all suggests snap judgments are common. "The link between facial features and character may be tenuous at best, but that doesn't stop our minds from sizing other people up at a glance," he said. "We decide very quickly whether a person possesses many of the traits we feel are important, such as likeability and competence, even though we have not exchanged a single word with them. It appears that we are hard-wired to draw these inferences in a fast, unreflective way."
It's not clear why we judge so quickly. But Todorov has done brain imaging that suggests our mind's fear-response region may be involved. "The fear response involves the amygdala, a part of the brain that existed in animals for millions of years before the development of the prefrontal cortex, where rational thoughts come from," he said. "We imagine trust to be a rather sophisticated response, but our observations indicate that trust might be a case of a high-level judgment being made by a low-level brain structure. Perhaps the signal bypasses the cortex altogether."
Meanwhile, he has no clue what we look for."We still don't know the physical features of a face that lead to a particular trait inference," he said. "We know generally what makes a face attractive, such as its symmetry, the proportions of its parts and the like. But what is it about a face that makes you think its owner is an essentially competent person? That's the subject of another study, one that needs to be done."
<Question>
1. When do first impressions play a key role?
2. What do you see in men and women when you first meet them?
3. Do you think your first impressions are usually accurate?
4. What is your first impression of your members?
How To Stop People Stealing Your Ideas
A Life/Work Lesson
By Paul Suggett
I get a lot of letters and emails asking me "how do I keep my ideas safe?" and "how can I make sure that my ideas remain my ideas?" Or, to go one better, "what do I do if someone steals my ideas?" And to many, these are tricky questions.
For instance, we now live in a world that allows the sharing of ideas instantly across many platforms. We also have to embrace modern technology and have online portfolios - portfolios that can be accessed by anyone, at anytime, anywhere in the world.
Students are particularly vulnerable to this "larceny of ideas." They have books chock full of ideas that have never been printed or published. They have ownership of them, intellectually, but they don't have a way to keep their ideas safe and sound. If they keep them in a physical portfolio, they'll do themselves a massive injustice. Those ideas need to be seen by many, many potential employers, and the quickest and easiest way to disseminate that information is through an online portfolio.
If you've won awards, you at least have some real proof that you got there first, so to speak. But even then, award-winning work has been pilfered and re-animated. It's also won awards, despite coming from a less than honorable origin.
So what do you do?
How do you keep you ideas safe? The Answer is Two Words…
YOU DON'T.
I'll let that sink in for a moment, although I suspect a lot of you already knew it deep down.
Advertising ideas are not patented. They aren't precious, and they are certainly not safe from prying eyes and ears. They get ripped off. Stolen. Half-inched. Thieved. Copied. Carved up and repackaged. And this has been going on for decades.
When physical portfolios were going around advertising agencies, the best ideas were photocopied and kept in a file. I never did this, but I saw people do it. And I have heard stories of filing cabinets filled with student ideas.
These days, creatives will often scour student portfolios looking for new ideas and directions. They will look at award websites and see what can be copied and reconstituted. It's not illegal. It's perhaps a bit unethical. But it's certainly not something that is going to go away any time soon.
Yet this bring us back full circle to one of the first questions at the beginning of this article.
"What do I do if someone steals my ideas?"
There's a simple answer to this one, and you may not like it. But you will have to accept it, and know that if you do, you'll be better off. The answer is…
JUST KEEP HAVING BETTER IDEAS.
That's it.
It seems obvious because it is. Think about it this way. If people keep ripping off your ideas, they will eventually come to the source. After all, why go to the time and trouble of trying to recreate lightning in a bottle, when you can hire the person who knows how to do it.
If you are always pushing out better and better ideas, you, as the creator, will be in demand. And the best part is that if you're talented, you call the shots and you steer the ship. In fact, you could be as cocky as to tell people to steal your ideas. Why not? "Go ahead, have them. I've got bigger, better ones in my head, and they'll be going to a rival agency…unless you'd like to play ball?"
Ideas cannot be locked up. They can't be kept safe and sound. But they can be your key to getting great work for years to come. So keep having those great ideas. They're your ticket to a fantastic career.
Article Source : http://advertising.about.com/od/creatingads/a/How-To-Stop-People-Stealing-Your-Ideas.htm
<Questions>
Q1. Have you ever felt that someone or certain group of people are trying to steal your ideas ?
When you found out the fact, what was your respond to it ?
Q2. Do you think there are any ways to stop them from stealing your ideas or collection of ideas which is planning ?
Q3. We are living in the open society using freely accessible internet use. Therefore, sometimes our ideas can go through the
internet without our permission by your acquaintance or by hacking. But mostly those happenings have something to do with
lack of understanding or violation of intellectual property right. Basically, those incidents have to be managed by the law.
However, Korean society have very low understanding on this matter.
If your collection of ideas were spreading without your permission, do you have any intention to act legal action toward
those group of people? And do you think it is acceptable ethically?
How can we protect the ideas from those group of people?
Q4. There are three types of people around us in this world. They are 'GIVER', 'MATCHER' and 'TAKER'.
'GIVER' is a certain type of person who tries to help people and gives more things than what they are taking.
However, 'Taker' is more like a selfish person who is taking more things than what they are giving to others.
and 'MATCHER' is a certain group of person who is between two types.
Do you think What type of person you are ?
And are there any possibilities for the 'GIVER' to be survived in the Korean society?
If they can not, what can be the survival strategies?
Q5. Nowadays, many people talk about the 'Creative Society'.
However, with those social understanding level on the intellectual property right, is it possible to build up sound
discussion culture to develop their ideas? If people still do the discussion under these collcting culture of ideas,
Isn't it a deceiving activities ? plz share your ideas !~
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