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time to read through and reflect on the supporting content. Respond to the
questions, consider your own situation in relations to the examples.
RESOURCE & SUPPORTING CONTENT
What does WIKI say?
Research in goal theory has identified the following dichotomies:
Mastery/Performance
Mastery orientation is described as a student's wish to become proficient in a topic to the best of
his or her ability. The student's sense of satisfaction with the work is not influenced by external
performance indicators such as grades. Mastery orientation is associated with deeper engagement
with the task and greater perseverance in the face of setbacks.Ames (1992)
Mastery orientation is thought to increase a student's intrinsic motivation.
Performance orientation is described as a student's wish to achieve highly on external indicators of
success, such as grades. The students' sense of satisfaction is highly influenced by their grades,
and so it is associated with discouragement in the face of low marks. Performance orientation is
also associated with higher states of anxiety. In addition, the desire for high marks increases the
temptation to cheat or to engage in shallow rote-learning instead of deep understanding.
Performance orientation is thought to increase a student's intrinsic motivation if they perform well,
but to decrease motivation when they perform badly.
Task/ego involvement
A student is described as task-involved when he is interested in the task for its own qualities. This
is associated with higher intrinsic motivation. Task-involved students are less threatened by failure
because their own ego is not tied up in the success of the task. Nicholls (1990)
A student who is ego-involved will be seeking to perform the task to boost their own ego, for the
praise that completing the task might attract, or because completing the task confirms their own
self-concept (eg. clever, strong, funny etc...) Ego-involved students can become very anxious or
discouraged in the face of failure, because such failure challenges their self-concept.
Approach/avoidance goals
Not all goals are directed towards approaching a desirable outcome (good grades). Goals can also
be directed towards avoiding an undesirable outcome (being grounded for failure).Andrew J.Elliot
(1997)
It is thought that approach goals contribute positively to intrinsic motivation whereas avoidance
goals do not.
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Capacities & Qualities of those who have done amazing things in the World
THINK DIFFERENTLY
the people in order of appearance of video:
Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, Jr. Richard Branson, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, R.
Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Edison, Muhammad Ali, Ted Turner, Maria Callas, Mahatma Gandhi, Amelia
Earhart, Alfred Hitchcock, Martha Graham, Jim Henson, with Kermit the Frog, Frank Lloyd Wright, Pablo
Picasso.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oAB83Z1ydE
the text:
Here's to the Crazy Ones.
The misﬁts.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing that you can't do, is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or, sit in silence and hear a song that hasn't been written?
Or, gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world,
are the ones who do.

BIG WAVE TOW IN SURFING
Billabong Odyssey Video
Mike Parsons & Brad Gerlach Partnership
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLvfOstA8Os&feature=related
SPEED ROCK CLIMBING
Dan Osman - 400ft 4min 25sec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-oc-lhqpIA
What does it take live these experiences?

HONESTY WITH SELF & OTHERS
GOOD TO GREAT: Jim Collins
A Prisoner of War
Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale
On a mission over North Vietnam on September 9, 1965, Stockdale ejected from his A-4E
Skyhawk, which had been disabled from anti-aircraft fire. Stockdale parachuted into a
small village, where he was severely beaten and taken into custody.
He was held as a prisoner of war for the next seven years. Locked in leg irons in a bath
stall, he was routinely tortured and beaten. When told by his captors that he was to be
paraded in public, Stockdale slit his scalp with a razor to purposely disfigure himself so
that his captors could not use him as propaganda.
In a book by James C. Collins called Good To Great, Collins relates how Stockdale
described his coping strategy during his period in the Vietnamese POW camp.[1]
"I never lost faith in the end of the story, I never doubted not only that I would get out,
but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of
my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade."[2]
When Collins asked who didn't make it out, Stockdale replied:
"Oh, thatʼs easy, the optimists. Oh, they were the ones who said, 'We're going to be out
by Christmas.' And Christmas would come, and Christmas would go. Then they'd say,
'We're going to be out by Easter.' And Easter would come, and Easter would go. And then
Thanksgiving, and then it would be Christmas again. And they died of a broken heart."[3]
Witnessing this philosophy of duality, Collins went on to describe it as the Stockdale
Paradox: “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can
never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current
reality, whatever they might be.”[4]
Are you honest with yourself and those around you?
What does your level of honest with self and others create for you?
What are the brutal facts of your situation that you need to acknowledge?
Why will you prevail?
Why will you team and organisation prevail in the end?
What have been the defining events in your life?
What have been the defining events for this organisation?
What have been defining events in the last 12 months?

The relationship between challenge & skills, knowledge, experience & capacity.
FLOW
Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or
she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process
of the activity. Proposed by positive psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the concept has
been widely referenced across a variety of fields.[1] # ^ Citations of Csíkszentmihályi's
1990 book about flow on Google Scholar
Csíkszentmihályi identifies the following nine factors as accompanying an experience of flow:
Csikszentmihalyi, M. & K. Rathunde. (1993). The measurement of flow in everyday life: Towards a theory of
emergent motivation. In J. E. Jacobs (Ed.) Nebraska symposium on motivation
Nine Factors of FLOW
1. Clear goals (expectations and rules are discernible and goals are attainable and align
appropriately with one's skill set and abilities).
2. Concentrating and focusing, a high degree of concentration on a limited field of attention (a
person engaged in the activity will have the opportunity to focus and to delve deeply into it).
3. A loss of the feeling of self-consciousness, the merging of action and awareness.
4. Distorted sense of time, one's subjective experience of time is altered.
5. Direct and immediate feedback (successes and failures in the course of the activity are
apparent, so that behavior can be adjusted as needed).
6. Balance between ability level and challenge (the activity is neither too easy nor too difficult).
7. A sense of personal control over the situation or activity.
8. The activity is intrinsically rewarding, so there is an effortlessness of action.
9. People become absorbed in their activity, and focus of awareness is narrowed down to the
activity itself, action awareness merging.
When have you experienced flow and how would you describe it?

What happens when things go wrong?
This is a true story, excerpted from the book The Flow State:
A group of experienced, professional skydivers was preparing for a jump. As the
parachutes were being distributed, it was found that there was one more right-handed
jumper than right-handed parachutes. The senior jumper gave a left-handed parachute to
the right-handed jumper with the explicit reminder that, though the ripcord would be only
inches from where it usually was, nonetheless, it would be on the opposite side than he
was used to.
The plane soared high into the sky. All of the jumpers exited the plane without a problem.
The jumpers plummeted toward the earth, and one by one the colorful 'chutes opened.
Except one. The one jumper screamed toward the earth and his 'chute never opened.
When the people on the ground rushed over to the dead jumper, it was discovered that in
the spot where the right-handed ripcord would have been, the jumper had clawed through
his jump suit and had also clawed into his ﬂesh, leaving it torn and bloody.
Through force of habit and fear, the jumper had been unable to remember that his
salvation was just inches from where he had clawed through his own skin. The force of
habit and the power of fear often paralyze us in just this manner: we are unable to see
solutions that are just inches away.
When have you been gripped by habitual ways of doing things that have held you back,
produced disastrous results, or hurt yourself or others?

COLLABORATION
Hospital races to learn lessons of Ferrari crew
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
By Gautam Naik, The Wall Street Journal
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06318/738252-114.stm
LONDON -- After surgeons completed a six-hour operation to ﬁx the hole in a boy's heart,
Angus McEwan supervised one of the more dangerous phases of the procedure:
transferring the fragile three-year-old from surgery to the intensive care unit.
Thousands of such "handoffs" occur in hospitals every day, and devastating mistakes can
happen during them. This one went off without a hitch, thanks to pit-stop techniques of the
Ferrari race-car team.
"It was smooth. We didn't miss anything," said Dr. McEwan, a senior anesthesiologist at
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. His role as leader of the handoff was partly
modeled after Ferrari's "lollipop man," who uses a large paddle to direct drivers to the pit.
In one of the more unlikely collaborations of modern medicine, Britain's largest children's
hospital has revamped its patient handoff techniques by copying the choreographed pit
stops of Italy's Formula One Ferrari racing team. The hospital project has been in place for
two years and has already helped reduce the number of mishaps.
The challenge of moving a patient to another unit, or to a new team during a shift change,
is an old one. In 1995, one man in Florida had the wrong leg amputated after a ﬂubbed
handoff. "If you transfer a patient to the ICU after surgery and the ventilator isn't ready,
you're really riding on the edge" of patient safety, says Allan Goldman, head of the
pediatric intensive care unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital and a chief architect of the
hospital's collaboration with Ferrari.
A 2005 study found that nearly 70 percent of preventable hospital mishaps occurred
because of communication problems, and other studies have shown that at least half of
such breakdowns occur during handoffs.
What inhibits this way of engaging and connecting?

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