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eudemonia

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When I first came onto this site I was both horrifed and delighted to discover that I was one of the oldest members - thoughts like, does this mean I'm sad, do 16 year olds want to be talking to 48 year olds - eek! However, having overcome my insecurities I thought its actually a great way to keep me learning and up to date. One area where I really need some help is in finding cool youtube videos that I can use in my 'teaching' and 'training' (I'm in leadership development) and I thought that people on the site might have some very interesting ones. So what are your favourite, most stimulating youtube videos?
To start off with my favourite ones are:

Baraka
YouTube- Baraka
Steve Jobs stanford address
YouTube- Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
A vision of students today
YouTube- A Vision of Students Today
And a funny one - How the south was lost - a how not to do it in leadership
YouTube- How the South Was Lost - Anniversary Edition
 

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The third video was great. Having just finished college I can tell you that's what it is. I had a class that was 4 days a week for 10 weeks. I attended 7 of those classes and got a C. I only read my textbook in the most difficult classes and I took a lot of classes I have no use for or interest in. Granted some classes I really enjoyed (Languages of the World especially... I had no idea linguistics was so fascinating), but I'm walking away with a master's in chemistry and $16,000 in debt, but no interest in working in that field.

Of course at this point in my life I fit more into the second video. Making a major career change and hoping things work out, because I need to love what I do. If it wasn't for my disdain for Apple's proprietary policies, I would really admire Steve Jobs.
 

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How would you have changed your college experience Decaf? How could the lecturers have made it more interesting and worthwhile for you? How would you have taught your course? OUr universities in the UK are impoverished, lacking in status and resources. I thought US universities were of a much higher quality. It's shocking how little lecturers get paid in the UK.

Re Steve Jobs, I don't know anything about his policies. They say that before his humbling experience of getting sacked from Apple he was impossible. Now apparently he's more approachable. I just liked what he said:

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do….Your time is
limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life…Don’t let the noise of
others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice” Steve Jobs

- and he has lived his life that way too. Many people who I show this too say they are inspired by it. But hey... I also love the Lovelock quote: stay hungry, stay foolish.
 

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stay hungry, stay foolish.

Another quote I enjoy...

"Get busy livin', or get busy diein'. That's God damn right"
Ellis Boyd Redding
 

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Hello Edemonia,

To give some context, I am a junior in my university with a major of Education with a focus on social studies and psychology. I am studied to be a high school teacher or university adjunct. I live in a conservative part of th USA. I foresee many conflicts with the ESFJ types who hold a monopoly on the profession, but I hope I can stand out to those that can't function under such demagogues.

I have had 3 teachers I really enjoyed being taught by. The first was a man that I would think is an INTP. He was more of a tutor so we had a much more close relationship. He was a math teacher for future comparison.

The seconds was a psychology professor. He did nothing but power point lectures but despite that he did them truly well. They were chalk full of videos and slide shows with a bare minimum of lists that he just read verbatim. I never really got to know him, but he was quite humorous as well.

The third is an ENTP sociology teacher. He is so NP that he publicly declares lecture as the most overrated method of teaching ever, followed by reading. He commonly tells people to stop taking notes. His class usually plays out as follows. The first 10-15 minutes are lecture, essential S type details and definitions necessary to discuss and understand the concepts. The rest of the class he arbitrates the students teaching other students in group assignments and class discussion that they were assigned to reaserch the previous class. It is always clunky the first few days but as the class gets situated it begins to become a cohesive learning method. He devides the class into groups where each person takes an aspect of the subject to be discussed, forcing them to learn so that the group doesn't fail by not haveing the aspect addressed.

He also asks alot of questions rather than just giving info away. He clearly rather have us come up with it ourselves. The first day he asked us to stereotype each other. Within the first 15 minutes I described the nature of an ENTP and he almost felt threatened by my monopoly of understanding on his personality. It was quite amusing.

Its atypical, but I find it much more appealing then the S type lectures and list copying.

I can't suggest any media for you to augment your class, but i would suggest that you outline the different types of leaders. E, S, F, and J types will likely have a narrow vision of what leadership should be, so I would start by breaking down those assumptions. http://www.paladinexec.com/personality_comparison/INTJ/ will give alist of each types view of what leadership should be. That it is a conglomerate of people pushing, conflict resolution, content analysis, system analysis, polotics and a slew of other things and not just one.
 

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As far as education, I think it helps to eat away at the students preconceptions even if it means playing devil's advocate. Pull the rug out from under them and force them to defend themselves intellectually. That is what worked for me ( tell them some of that 9/11 stuff to work up some spirited debate :D).

The best professor I ever had completely shattered all my dearly held preconceptions on day one. Some students hated him for it, but I for one, will be thankful to him for the rest of my life. I ended up taking 13 classes with him and at the upper levels, sometimes we only had 4-6 students (it was a smalll college but that is a really small class even there).

If you force students to think for themselves, they become engaged. In my case, I found myself reading up in a subject beyond the class requirements just because I wanted to hold my own intellectually. I think that at the university level, INTP's have the potential to make the very best professors.
 

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Thanks for these replies. It's very interesting how different teaching in a university will be from 'management/leadership development'. There's a culture in MD that as a facilitator you are there to provide experiences that people reflect upon. Management is largely inhabited by 'doers' and there is often a culture of 'thinking = analysis paralysis'. Inputs or theories should be kept to a minimum of 15 minutes and should always be followed by lots of exercises that illustrate the point and enable people to 'see', 'experience' and 'feel' the truth. This is all very well, and I sympathise, its just that I got bored. Once you have seen 100 people go through an exercise, all making the same mistakes and all coming to the same conclusions, you begin to lose faith in human nature:)

I am really looking forward to doing some experimentation along the lines you suggest and adding the experiential element as well.
 

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He also asks alot of questions rather than just giving info away. He clearly rather have us come up with it ourselves. The first day he asked us to stereotype each other. Within the first 15 minutes I described the nature of an ENTP and he almost felt threatened by my monopoly of understanding on his personality. It was quite amusing.

That would be hilarious. What did he say? You remember any quotes?

If someone had done that to me before I knew about the MBTI, I would have been thinking, "Wow, this person knows me almost better than I do! What's going on?"
 
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