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  We tend to think that we are who we are and there is not much we can do about that. But the fact is, we choose our personality and who we are. Our personality is shaped by the choices we make over time. One of the most frequent questions in personal development probably is “Can I change my personality type?” According to most personality type theories, the person’s type is inborn and does not change . However, people can develop traits and habits that differ or even directly contradict the description of their type.   An example may help us understand better. Suppose lights in the room suddenly go off and we are in complete darkness. We may be able to navigate our way to the door, but which of our senses will come into play? Touch? Hearing? Smell? It would be anything but vision, our preferred sense. As soon as the lights come back on, we will switch back to using vision again as it makes it much easier to navigate around the room. The way our personality works is quite ident

  For many years now, researchers in educational fields have been trying to understand the influence of technology in the classroom. After all, technology is not in the classroom today, technology is the classroom . Discussions with online educators and trainers yield that despite their best efforts in trying to make the session innovative and experiential, it was evident that they were struggling to keep their participants engaged. “ It’s so much harder [especially] with the younger members to engage online ,” is a common statement. E-learning is especially challenging when the subject we are trying to teach is Social and Emotional Learning . After all, the reason we focus so hard to build social and emotional skills is often because of the negative effects of technology . How E-Learning Might be Helping All challenges considered; it just would not be true to assume that because online education has underperformed in the past, it necessarily means that it will do so again in the fu

It is safe to assume that an overwhelming majority of the population has now participated in a videoconference. People who may not have even known how to start one six months ago now use them daily —and it is all beginning to feel normal. The technologies that we have all come to rely on have so seamlessly infiltrated our lives that it is easy to overlook their impact. But when we consider the repercussions of remote working, we will see that these platforms have taught us more than just how to use them. They have made us better leaders, collaborators, employees, and employers. Here are some lessons we did not realize we learned from the tools we use to work from home. Lesson 01- Transparency is not so frightening after all: . . . .. . . . . . .   Many of us who came of age in the business world between the 1980s and the 2010s have an innate fear of letting a client see anything before it is “ready.” As businesses, we are entrusted to lead projects that constitute millions of dollar