A simple way to appreciate the good things at work
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Any job has good and bad things to it. Any job. Yours too. Maybe you kinda like your co-workers, you're good at what you do and the food rocks - but on the other hand the commute is deadly and your boss is a bit of a jerk.
Here's the point: Even though all jobs contain good and bad elements, most people over focus on the bad things. In this 4-minute video I talk about why that is and what you can do about it.
This is the first video in a series of five that we did for Danish enzyme producer Novozymes. They are already a great workplace, and as part of a campaign called "It's Great to be a Zymer" wanted a simple, fun way to communicate the basic concepts of happiness at work to their employees in Denmark, China, USA and Brazil and hired us to do these videos, which their employees can access on the intranet. They have very kindly allowed us to share the videos with a wider audience.
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I think it's great to understand why we tend to be pessimistic, and to acknowledge that this tendency had purpose and was useful at one point. But no longer. With consistent intention we can change, evolve, and adapt a new habit that is more life supporting than our last: optimism.
Thanks for another great video, Alexander!
I think it's great to understand why we tend to be pessimistic, and to acknowledge that this tendency had purpose and was useful at one point. But no longer. With consistent intention we can change, evolve, and adapt a new habit that is more life supporting than our last: optimism.
Thanks for another great video, Alexander!
I am extremely happy to find such great place for sharing experiences. It is great! I am a possitive born man :-) but Alexander leaves me a little behind.
I am going to enjoy all ur advice!
Thanks
Best regards,
Catalin
Daisy