Put down the mouse, grab a beer, close your eyes, and listen to the first ten minutes of Informal Learning, Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Performance and Innovation.

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Life's too short for double-posting or drinking cheap wine. 

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Internet Time Blog : 50 best articles on Working Smarter for the first half of 2012
Flipping Corporate Learning Flipping learning is big in education. It will be big in corporate learning. Let's not blow it. How do you flip learning? Khan Academy is the poster child for flipped learn…

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Internet Time Alliance | A ridiculously long post on Informal Learning
Here's my attempt at breaking the Guinness World Record for longest blog post. (2809 words). Don't eat it all in one bite. I'm preparing to lead an experiential workshop for change agents covering all…

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by Charles Leadbetter

Pull trumps push. Charley is astute. 

Thanks for the tip, Jane.

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Money can’t buy happiness. Happiness results from how you feel about things, not how things really are. Harvard’s Daniel Gilbert asks you to imagine two people. One wins $58 million in the lottery; the other loses the use of his legs in a car accident. A year later, both are just as happy or sad as before their big events. 

A meta-study of 225 studies on the effect of happiness in the workplace found that happy employees are 31% more productive, sell 37% more, and are three times as creative as their run-of-the-mill peers. Happiness is a bottom line issue. Don’t believe it? Look at the January issue of Harvard Business Review. Aside from hiring happy people, what can you do to take advantage of this?

Our brains are plastic. No, not polystyrene. Flexible. You can rewire your brain. 

A researcher asked harried office workers to do at least one of five brief exercises over the course of three weeks. Four months later, these workers remained more happy, optimistic, and satisfied with their lives. Happiness had become a habit.

I have been following all five of the routines for the past month. My outlook’s more positive. I am certainly happier. I smile more. 

A sample of one doesn’t prove anything, but you may want to give this a shot.

Here is my daily routine:

Jot down 3 things I am grateful for.
Email a positive message to someone.
Meditate for 2 minutes.
Exercise for 10 minutes.
Take 2 minutes to describe my most meaningful experience of the past 24 hours.

Give it a shot. What have you got to lose? 

If it works for you, spread the gospel. Happiness is contagious. 

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Don’t drink the informal learning snake oil
The Tragedy of eLearning We’ve seen this movie before. The 1999 Online Learning conference in Los Angeles was ground zero for eLearning. CBT Systems told the world it was being reincarnated as SmartFo…

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TravelinEdMan: Twenty Thoughts on the Types, Targets, and Intents of MOOCs – The World Is Open
Anyway, on to Day Four. This story begins when I was on a chartered plane with some IU information technology people back on Monday June 4th. One of them, Brad Wheeler, the IU CIO and Vice President f…

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Bye Bye E-Learning: Emergent Learning Paradigm More Important Than Digital Delivery Tools
You always hear educators discuss rethinking education paradigms. But while it makes perfectly sense to find new ways to engage and connect teachers and learners, what is the right path educators shou…

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