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A big thank you to HOK Vice President Daniel Niewoehner for sending me HOK’s recent innovation! The Academic Workplace cards are fantastic. They’re an informal tool to initiate conversations around emerging topics in environmental psychology and design. I’m particularly fond of lenses, failing upward, embrace wellness, and re-imagine entitlements. Would love to work with HOK one day! #OnMyBreakfastTable #HOK #AcademicWorkplace

“The thing I began to notice was not the fear of an ‘F’, it was the fear of any mistake,” she said. “It’s not that students couldn’t get to a final draft, they couldn’t get even their ideas down. From a teacher’s point of view, that’s a nightmare! If they can’t take a risk, then certainly they aren’t raising their hand with an I-wanna-try-this-idea-out kind of thing.” ~ Jessica Lahey (Author of The Gift of Failure). Read more here.

Building on children’s affinity for nature! Love it! More to learn here at Outdoor Recreation Council of British Columbia and British Columbia Federation of Drift Fishers. (Thank you Sarah for sharing!)

You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again.
~ John Denver

We need to commit, as a community, to writing for the masses. Our work needs to be accessible to the public so that they can make informed decisions about their health. For starts, simplify your wording, spell out your acronyms, explain the jargon, and use visuals. And if possible, make it interesting!

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Wow! I’m loving this! Dr. Gokul Krishnan implemented the first makerspace in a children’s hospital! And now he’s been recently awarded a NSF grant to continue his research and development of his Maker Therapy program at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. Congratulations! Learn more at MakerTherapy.com

“Coined in 1999 by then-Cornell psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the eponymous Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias whereby people who are incompetent at something are unable to recognize their own incompetence. And not only do they fail to recognize their incompetence, they’re also likely to feel confident that they actually are competent.”  ~ Mark Murphy

More on the Dunning-Kruger Effect here.

Part Piranha / Part Dog (I’m thinking Pekingese). On my “must have” list.
Have a great weekend everyone!