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Nurturing Your Emotions: Self-Care for Jobs Requiring Emotional Labor

Introduction: In today’s fast-paced and interconnected world, many professions demand not only intellectual and physical labor but also emotional labor. These jobs require individuals to engage with others’ emotions, such as counselors, healthcare providers, customer service representatives, and even managers. In fact, any job where you interact with another human being will require some emotional […]

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Tapping Into the Spectrum of Motivation

I Need to Motivate My Team!Have you ever delivered important information to a disinterested audience, wondering why they weren’t more invested? Have you ever offered people opportunities in their best interest, only for the opportunities to be ignored? Have you ever thought, “I wish I could just motivate these people!”? Everyone is Already MotivatedWhen it

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The Art of Teaching: Why You Need to Incorporate Design into Your Teaching Materials

Teaching is an art, and just like any art form, it requires careful consideration of aesthetics and presentation. While the content and pedagogical strategies are crucial, the design of teaching materials should not be overlooked. Incorporating thoughtful design elements can enhance the learning experience, engage students, and improve their understanding and retention of the subject

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Completed Syllabus and the Generous Choice of “Shipping”

The syllabus for my Psychology of Learning is complete (P325 Syllabus Summer 2023). It doesn’t look like a typical syllabus. It will let any student know immediately that the course they signed up for is something different. It took a look of extra time and effort. However, now comes the hard part… choosing to ship

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Creative Serendipity (or What Happens When You Throw Out the Roadmap)

One of the greatest upsides of infusing art into your work is what I like to call “creative serendipity”. Now, infusing art into your work, whatever your work is, doesn’t mean that you add fancy designs to your work, trying to make it visually appealing. Rather, it is “human act, a generous contribution, something that

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Welcome to Paladinsane’s World

Welcome to Paladinsane’s World! Here you will find content on a myriad of topics dealing with:   Research: Insights from both my research in the psychology of art and perception, as well as a curated collection of science that makes me say “how fascinating!”   Teaching: Selections from my lessons in psychology. Psychology is a

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