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Are you a storyteller? Whether you post to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, or some other venue, what’s ends up being of most significance to others are the stories you tell about your life. The role of storyteller is one of the oldest in history. Episode by episode, we reveal our lives and connect with others. WE…
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Are you and your friends and colleagues able to disagree without coming off as disagreeable? Do you think we should be able to express displeasure without displaying rancor or offending others? Do you? IN THE NEWS Recently President Trump used the “R-Word” when referring to a number of people he disagreed with. Contrastingly, both Lizzo…
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According to LinkedIn, many of the jobs we aspire to fill today have title descriptions that did not exist 25 years ago. Among these jobs are social media influencer, online content creator, knowledge architect, prompt engineer, story-teller, growth officer, and conversation designer. Many of these newer positions involve working with Artificial Intelligence. THE TRANSFORMATION IS…
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Do words matter? Might changing the word school to learning community affect the behavior of students and educators? Might relabeling a population a community alter how members think about themselves? How do the words we use influence our attitudes toward one another? How might they influence our attitudes toward how we should approach our differences?…
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Dictionaries are known for identifying a word of the year. In 2023, different dictionaries identified as the word of the year “rizz””—short for charisma, and authentic. In 2024, the words chosen were polarization and brain rot. For 2025, Oxford University Press has selected “rage bait” as its word of the year, underscoring the potential for…
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When conversing with another person, we often think about what to say and how to say it. Do we do the same when we speak with ourselves? How much do you enjoy and profit from self-talk conversations? What kind of self-talk speaker and listener are you? WHAT SELF-TALK IS Self-talk is that inner voice that…
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The question of how to use generative AI ethically is being debated in workplaces and colleges. Here’s the Issue When business people, educators, and students make unauthorized use of content generated by AI, are they guilty of misconduct—even if the information AI generates for them contains creative output? Or, is the real problem that they…
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The Department of Defense. The Department of War. The Department of Peace. Secretary of Defense. Secretary of War. Secretary of Peace. How do the changes in wording affect what the words represent? What do the changes in terminology signal? Implications of Changes in Terminology President Trump wanted to change the name of the Department of…
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You’re conducting research online for a project. Maybe you’re writing an article. Maybe you’re going to issue a report. Or perhaps you’re creating a novel or screenplay. Whatever your subject and purpose, it’s common for an AI bot to respond to your search prompts with a narrative summary of the information it finds. You marvel…
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