Curious Incidents of a Flailing Mermaid

Genetics, positive messages, happiness & we're still cursed!

30 DBC - 4th Sept - Prompt: Simply telling people that hard work is more important than genetics causes positive changes in the brain and may make them willing to try harder, a study shows. "Giving people messages that encourage learning and motivation may promote more efficient performance," said the lead investigator. "In contrast, telling people that intelligence is genetically fixed may inadvertently hamper learning."

My question to you is: Do you believe it is that simple to improve the way a person approaches learning? I am interested in what you think about the study done by Michigan State University. Did anyone encourage you in the method they are suggesting?


Well, I sure hope so otherwise my job is pointless. Granted, sometimes it feels pointless, but I hope its not *that* pointless!
See, I'm a motivational speaker, working primarily with high-school students. So, obviously my job is to give positive messages and promote hard work, positive attitudes and dealing well when things go wrong or not quite to plan.
I love my job (98% of the time). Sometimes when I work with the same group for a whole day, I can see definite changes in specific students by the time I leave. Other than that, however, I don't know whether what I do helps. Although, I do tend to get positive feedback from teachers.

Then there's my brother. We have the same genetics, same upbringing, same positive motivation. Yet, he is totally different to my other brother. He is so negative and feels the world owes him 1000 favours. What went wrong there? I genuinely have no clue.

I just think, positive messages do work IF the individual person is open to it!

In other news:

Yesterday I donated about 400,000GPs to good causes. Today I've posted a positive message in 14 people's notebooks. This made people smile... my work is done!
Chris took his final tablet on Tuesday night. They were evil things trying to kill off the bug in his system. He was happy about this. But now he's sick again! Seems we are still cursed *punches a pillow*
I still need to write today's poems for "Invalid Item"  and "Invalid Item" 
I'm now off to upload wedding photos for those that keep asking!


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