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江苏省淮安市2018-2019学年高二下学期英语期末考试试卷
Positive Psychology
Positive psychology can be thought of as a branch of psychology, which puts emphasis on the strengths and positive aspects of an individual's character to help him achieve contentment and satisfaction. It focuses on making the ordinary lives of people much more fulfilling. The key point of positive psychology is that an individual should try to be content with his past experiences, happy with the present and hopeful about the future. This attitude can help an individual to place an emphasis on his strengths and grow in the best possible way. Positive psychology attaches great importance to three main factors. They are positive emotions, positive personalities and positive institutions.
Positive psychologists believe that positive emotions help broaden one's vision and create a sense of well-being in an individual. Positive emotions can help in achieving better results, both in personal and professional life. Positive emotions include being happy with yourself, which gives you a better way of looking at life. Positive emotions also prepare you to face any challenge in life with optimism.
Studies show that individuals with positive personalities have greater chances of standing out in various fields. Research shows that those with virtues like confidence, creativity. perseverance, sensibility, etc. have more chances of succeeding than those who hold a pessimistic (悲观的)view on life. Positive individual personalities prepare an individual to face the difficulties in life with confidence.
Institutions like schools, families and other social organizations can ensure that the strengths of an individual are developed. For example, praising a child for his good qualities and helping him deal with challenges can go a long way in preparing him for his future life. Instead of condemning or pressurizing employees, appreciating them for their efforts and rewarding them for their achievements are more effective ways of developing confidence in them and getting them to achieve more productivity.
Positive psychology shouldn't be confused with positive thinking. Positive thinking is a mind-sct which a person believes that all right things will happen to him and he'll be rewarded for his actions, while positive psychology doesn't rule out the probability of negative things happening to an individual. Rather, it focuses more on his positive aspects and works on how to utilize these to make a positive impact on his life. Positive psychologists believe that being happy isn't putting on a fake smile and reassuring yourself that all is fine. It is more about confronting(处理)negative aspects and appreciating positive aspects in order to use them to develop your personality. So it's necessary and important for us all to learn how to get the benefits of this new branch of psychology.
Positive Psychology |
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Introduction |
·Positive psychology refers to a branch of psychology which is aimed at making people feel content and satisfied by their strengths and positive aspects. ·With positive psychology, people can make the most of their strengths for their best |
Three important factors |
·Positive emotions can have one's vision and bring a sense of happiness. They can help one achieve better results personally and. They can get one for challenges in life with an optimistic attitude. ·Those with positive personalities are more to succeed in various fields than those with pessimistic personalities. ·Positive institutions are beneficial to the of one's strengths. |
between positive psychology and positive thinking |
·Positive thinking just focuses on right things while positive psychology takes into both positive and negative aspects of a situation. ·Positive psychology focuses on developing one's personality by the of facing the negative and appreciating the positive. |
All company leaders will face major business decisions throughout their time as the heads of their organizations. Difficult decisions related to activities such as M&A, leadership changes, restructuring, and massive growth plans will directly impact the company's employees.
If you've already established trust with your workforce, you can significantly minimize potential negative impacts and make sure your employees will buy into your decisions, even if they don't necessarily agree with them. But earning their faith takes time. As a leader, you are trusted only to the degree that people believe in your ability, consistency, and commitment to deliver. The good news is that there do exist some strategies to help you earn confidence.
Instill trust through an employee engagement program
By encouraging consistent feedback and establishing an honest environment, employees will trust the direction and information you give them. Create a highly engaged culture by prioritizing real-time recognition, continuous feedback, and ongoing goal-setting.
Change and react with meaningful conversations. You've likely had to adjust your business plan in the middle of the year. Real-time, continuous communication helps you keep employees in the loop and adjust to expectations as your organization's needs change.
Giving timely feedback is the most effective way to communicate expectations. Not only that, but saving your big praise until the end of the year isn't just ineffective—it makes it more difficult to deliver.
Ongoing goal-setting can help people understand where their contributions fit within the organization and where they need to aim. Better yet, these can be transparent across the organization so everyone is held accountable for the outcomes and behaviors that drive your business and cultural success.
Gather and measure sentiment (情感) during times of change
Part of the difficulty in making tough business decisions is that leaders don't want to surprise or disappoint employees. Think about the last time you made a major company-wide announcement. Did you know if employees were happy? Were they shocked? Or even worse, did you have no insight into their reactions at all? If you regularly measure employee sentiment through real-time pulse surveys—especially during times of change—you can more accurately pinpoint reactions and cope with issues immediately. The results of these pulse surveys empower your leadership team to be more forthcoming, moving forward, earning the trust of employees and strengthening a transparent company culture.
If there is a strong link between employees and managers to the goals of the organization, the vision and values of the company will be embraced by all.
At the end of the day, the mindset shouldn't be about how you can make tough decisions easier, but how you can make those decisions in a way that won't negatively impact your employees or your organization's objectives. Create a cooperative feedback culture, and when the time comes to make difficult decisions, you know that with your team's insights in mind and trust in the leadership, the decision will be accepted willingly.
Earning employee's faith takes time | |
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Reading the world in 195 books
In 2012, I set myself the challenge of trying to read a book from every country of all 195 UN-recognized states in a year. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. I created a blog called A Year of Reading the World and put out an appeal for suggestions of titles that I could read in English.
The response was amazing. Before I knew it, people all over the planet were getting in touch with ideas and offers of help. Some posted me books. Others did hours of research on my behalf. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. Even with such an extraordinary team behind me, however, sourcing books was no easy task.
But the effort was worth it. As I made my way through the planet's literary landscapes, extraordinary things started to happen. Far from simply armchair travelling, I found I was inhabiting the mental space of the storytellers. I discovered, bookpacking offered something that a physical traveller could hope to experience only rarely: it took me inside the thoughts of individuals living far away and showed me the world through their eyes. More powerful than a thousand news reports, these stories not only opened my mind to basic information of life in other places, but opened my heart to the way people there might feel. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. Through reading the stories shared with me by bookish strangers around the globe, I realized I was not an isolated person, but part of a network that stretched all over the planet.
One by one, the country names on the list that had begun as an intellectual exercise transformed into places filled with laughter, love, anger, hope and fear. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. At its best, I learned, fiction makes the world real.
A. Lands that had once seemed foreign and remote became close and familiar to me. B. And that in turn changed my thinking. C. With no idea how to find publications, I decided to ask the planet's readers for help. D. No matter how long your life is, you will be able to read only a few of all the books that have been written. E. You'll find yourself enlightened by the thoughts and observations of the most gifted writers in history. F. In addition, several writers, like Turkmenistan's Ak Welsapar, sent me unpublished translations of their novels. |
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