A Persuasive RSAnimate
View two or three examples of RSAnimates and then choose the one you find most persuasive.
In a paragraph, explain why you find it persuasive (in a way, persuade us that we should also watch it!). Post your paragraph here (150 to 200 words) before coming to class.
Be sure to bring your work to class, word processed, next Wednesday.
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RSAnimate: Re-Imangaing Work
"Re-Imangaing Work" by Dave Colpin (Chief Envisioning Officer at Microsoft) show that work can be boring and out of place sometimes. What to i mean by out of place?, for example some offices are open floor as stated in the video this makes people who work there out of place. An example given in the video is that you might send emails to people who maybe a desk front of you or behind you. That makes us people lazy and unproductive. My older son is going to university right now and he was telling me that: "We are not allowed to colloborate over social media during class!" I asked why? "The professor says that speaking face-to-face makes it more easy for people to understand." he said. Dave Colpin states that people can make better use if they get rid of social networking once awhile. The second thing that surprised me is when, he says is that we should have "flexible work" meaning working from home when possible. I really recommend seeing this video : "Re-Imanging Work" by RSAnimate. -- 178 words
https://www.thersa.org/discover/videos/rsa-animate/2013/09/rsa-animate---re-imagining-work/
A Persuasive RSAnimate - “The Truth About Dishonesty”
I spent two days in reading all RSA animate series on Youtube, and at last, I find this one -- “The Truth About Dishonesty” by Dan Ariely-- is the most interesting and persuasive as it reveals something deep in human nature. I am impressed by several points Ariely mentioned in his speech. First of all, people try to “feel good” while we “want to benefit from being dishonest,” and we could “do both through rationalizing our actions.” I don’t want to admit this but it is true. When human cheat or do something wrong, their first reaction is to find an excuse to release themselves and make them look innocent; just like dictators always find a strong reason before they take cruel actions. Moreover, everyone wants to “keep the feeling of being good” even though he might cheat or do something wrong; that means everyone cares about morality, and that is why we feel pleasant and peaceful if we do a good thing or our wrong-doing is forgiven. At last, people can be deeply influenced by “the right circumstances,” That changing the circumstance is the most important to “let ourselves get away with less (cheat) activities,” as Ariely states. I believe in someone above is watching us no matter where we are and what we do, supervising us “to a higher degree.”
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RSAnimate: Smile or Die
"Smile or Die" by Barbara Ehrenreich illustrates negative aspects of positive thinking. This is the idea of too much positive thinking could lead to delusional thinking. She perfectly summarize many aspects of our daily lives including the corporate and social world. In one of Barbara's example, “You change the world with your thoughts” with that idea, she believes the corporate world is delusional because they only hire people that are cheerful and positive without actually having the skills required for the job. Another interesting example she provides is the idea that “Anybody can be rich just by thinking about it.” According to Barbara this way of thinking is delusional, yet many people believe in it. My personal opinion on this matter is that without action there is no reaction. So one must work hard to get rich and not simply think about it. This is a must see because it will broaden your knowledge about the negative aspects of positive thinking.
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The Power of Outrospection
“The Power of Outrospection,”by Roman Krznaric (International Philosopher, expert on Empathy). Is an attractive video with spectacular examples in which explain all about empathy. Through this video we can really understand what empathy means, how empathy drives us to socially change and behave, and be more sensitive to others. You will love how in a short period of time (just only 10:29 min) this video can engage you with the interactive animations, in clear examples that let us understand how empathy is needed to develop strong relationship between humans. In addition --it let us think-- how our interactions with others can lead us to great experiences and positive reactions to changes in our behavior to others and to the world. Furthermore, the language is clear and simple. “The Power of Outrospection” is a well done video that will entertain and lecture at the same time, and you won’t regret watching it.
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Persuading to watch “The Paradox of Choice”
“The Paradox of Choice” by Professor Renata Salecl is a very interesting video because it talks about weaken anxiety and dissatisfaction surrounding endless choice. The concept that choice provokes anxiety for a few reasons—We choose what other people are choosing, we want to make an ideal choice and choice always involves a loss—which provokes high anxiety in our lives. For example, an ideal choice can be when a man is ordering wine in a restaurant. He doesn’t want to order the expensive wine because he will be known as a show off. If he were to order the less expensive wine his friend would think he is a cheap skate. The best choice for him to make is to choose the wine with the price in the middle of the two. This will make him “appease the anxiety and guilt in regard to this choice.” So does making a choice really help us or can it cause anxiety? “The Paradox of Choice” has great information and is recommended to watch.
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RSAnimate: Paradox Of Choice
I watched a few of the RSAnimates on the website and found a couple I really enjoyed. The one that stood out the most was the one by Renata Selacl entitle “The Paradox of Choice.” In it she describes how society is essentially being dumbed down by the fact that we can make our own choices and take our life in any direction we choose, yet the reality is even though we have the right to make our own choices, we are swayed to the choices that others make or that others might find more acceptable. She goes on to describe how these tendencies of making our choices fit the social norm tend to make our society go all one way rather than each of us figuring out our own path. Her argument was very persuasive, she gave examples which I’m sure the regular person would see every day. After watching all the videos on the website, the first one I’d pick to see again would be this one.
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The Secret Powers of Time
I am persuaded by the presentation of Philip Zimbardo, illustrated in “The Secret Powers of Time” which reinforces the importance of our time perspective to overcome some problems in life. In fact, most of us are future oriented because we like working rather than seeking pleasure. However, some individuals are “hedonistic” (who pursued pleasure) in particular the present and past oriented ones. This theory helps us to understand time orientation and its effects in our lives. Moreover, Robert Levine (social psychologist) confirms that “pace of life” – which is the notion of time to complete a work—identify the characteristics of nations. What is more interesting is the struggle that facing each parent regarding the screening time of their kids. It seems that we under estimate the danger of this technology and its impact on our kids. For instance, the average screening time for kids is one hour a day (7200 hours in 20 years) that will surely affect their social skills and “digitally re-wired” their brains. Indeed, many problems in our lives could be solved if we understand and respect our time perspective. For these reasons, I strongly recommended to watch “The Secret Powers of Time”.
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In Sir Ken Robinson’s speech “Changing Education Paradigms” he talks about how the current school system in America is outdated and mundane, causing the majority of children to fail classes or not do as well as they could. I chose this animation because I can relate to it very well; throughout my school life I struggled in my classes because I have ADD meaning I found it harder to focus. In his speech Robinson said there was a pandemic of children being diagnosed with ADHD, when in fact it wasn't that at all. Kids nowadays have more interesting things to do such as watch TV, play video games or go on social media websites, then they come to school and can’t focus or do well because of how and what is being taught is boring. Another thing that caught my interest was when he explained how schools today are still like factories, with bells, separated buildings, different categories of classes and putting a child in a specific grade based on when they were born instead of what level they are at. I agree with Robinson that the school system is outdated. Some school boards are trying to fix it by updating the curriculum; for example allowing students to use iPads in the classroom and being more inclusive and realistic in sex-ed. However, I think they could do more such as teaching based on level as opposed to age and focusing on less memorizing and more learning how to think, challenge the status quo and solve problems. -256 words
https://www.thersa.org/discover/videos/rsa-animate/2010/10/rsa-animate---changing-paradigms/
RSAnimate: Language as a window into Human Nature
“Language as a window into human nature” by Steven Pinker show us how language works and how that can be related to human thinking. The author speaks about the using indirect speech when people veil their intention in innuendo hoping for listener can read between the lines and understand a real meaning. Another point of indirect speech is an opportunity to avoid awkwardness. Also, author says about three relationship types: dominance, communality, and reciprocity, when behaviour is acceptable in one type of relationship or situation and can be anomalous in another. For example, at a party you might go over to your husband or wife or boyfriend or girlfriend and to take a prawn from his or her plate. But you would not go up to your boss and to do the same. Also, Steven Pinker explains what is the difference between the mutual knowledge and the individual knowledge. He believes that putting your thoughts directly, without hints, can prevent a large number of conflicts. This video will be useful for those whose first language is not English and may help us to understand the a role of language in society.
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Changing Paradigms
“Changing Paradigms”, by Ken Robinson explains a different way to see things from another perspective. It’s an interpretation about an important subject that we are living nowadays, where technology is taking away the capacity of being original. How the industrialization separate children in groups for their education. He also explains how the divergent thinking is an essential capacity for creativity. That it has been blocked at school. At the same time we are getting “educated”. Ken Robinson talks about why we believe that education will help our children to stay in a good economic status. By trying to guess what the world will look like in the future. How the kids are being “medicated”, living in the most stimulating period in the history of the earth. This is a video that shows the other side of the coin. That everyone should watch.
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RSAnimate: The Truth About Dishonesty
“The Truth About Dishonesty,” by Professor Dan Ariely, was the most persuasive and informative among all videos that I watched. Have you brought pencils from the office? Have you had illegal downloads on your computer? Have you cheated a little on taxes? Have you purchased fake designer bags? If you say, “Yes” (I did.), you are actually cheating and stealing something without knowledge. Surprisingly enough, these actions affect the whole global economy tremendously. He stated, “Thanks to our ability of rationalising our actions, we can do both: we want to feel good about ourselves, but at the same time, we want to benefit from being dishonest.” The magnitude of dishonesty we see in society is by good people who think they are doing good, but in fact they are cheating just a little like many of us. Also, he added that the distance between us and the consequences of our actions in our cashless society-credit cards, electronic wallets, and esoteric financial instruments-allowed people to rationalise dishonesty to a much higher degree. Since we all are (little) cheaters, “The Truth About Dishonesty” that makes us more thoughtful about our own actions is worth watching.
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Henry Young
"RSA Animate - The Divided Brain" was the video I found very interesting and persuasive. Although the context is extremely informative and relatively hard to understand, the video really stands out from previous videos that I watched. It talks about one of the most, if not the most, important thing in human - rational/intuitive thinking, imagination, and reason - the brain. The left part and the right part of the brain are particularly explained in detail(thus hard to follow), and clarified of many myths that people used to believe. Continuing the explanation, the speaker pointed out some century shifts in the brain that further alternates our human world in an unbalanced way. After all, "RSA Animate - The Divided Brain" shows professionalism and I do recommend it to people who are interested in science(like me) and those who want to expand their knowledge.
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Positive? Negative? Realistic!
“Smile or Die”, by Barbara Ehrenreich, povides me a different view of positive thinking. There are so many difficulties and unpleasure things happen in our lives: be fired unexpectedly with no reason, the one you love betrays you, or some one break into your house. Nothing we can change, so we are taught to change our attitude. Stop complaining, think positively, and smile, then good things will happen. Since you change your attitude, “you can change the physical world with your thoughts.” However, Ehrenreich tells us it's not ture. “Delusion is always a mistake.” (doesn't matter it's a positive delusion or negative delusion.) She suggests that we should be realistic. We have to figure out what is actually happening in the world, and think what we can do about it. Only think positively can't solve any problem or make any difference. Don't be unrealistically optimistic. We have to run when a leopard is coming. We won't be rich if we just dream about it. Ehrenreich provides some convictive evidences, such as financial meltdown in 2007, tsunamis in 2006, and George Bush invading Iraq to support her opinion. “Smile or die” is very interesting , and it gives me a new idea of positive thinking. It's worth watching.
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RSAnimate: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
“The surprising truth about what motivates us,” by Professor Dan Pink, has unbelievably interesting and knowledgeable ideas that I enjoyed learning. The components of motivation come in three ways – autonomy, mastery and purpose – helps the reader understand in depth definitions on how the motivational system works amongst humans. One of the most intriguing facts that the professor mentions is when he says, “give people an innovation bonus, and one day of autonomy produces things that never emerge.” Yes, I do believe that this strategy works. Many people do more impressive work when they are rewarded for it. Another eye opener is that at certain contests: such as, mathematics competitions, and other similar competitions – prizes that are given are divided from lowest, to middle and highest. This has been proven to de-concentrate the competitors and result in more confusion. Full of experiential and evidence-based information that distinctly explains and gives awareness into how easy it is to either motivate or de-motivate people, “The surprising truth about what motives us” is a must-see lecture.
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RSAnimate: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
“The surprising truth about what motivates us,” by Professor Dan Pink, has unbelievably interesting and knowledgeable ideas that I enjoyed learning. The components of motivation come in three ways – autonomy, mastery and purpose – it helps the reader understand in depth definitions on how the motivational system works amongst humans. One of the most intriguing facts that the professor mentions is when he says, “give people an innovation bonus, and one day of autonomy produces things that never emerge.” Yes, I do believe that this strategy works. Many people do more impressive work when they are rewarded for it. Another eye opener is that at certain contests: such as, mathematics competitions, and other similar competitions – prizes that are given are divided from lowest, to middle and highest. This has been proven to de-concentrate the competitors and result in more confusion. Full of experiential and evidence-based information that distinctly explains and gives awareness into how easy it is to either motivate or de-motivate people, “The surprising truth about what motives us” is a must-see lecture.
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RSAnimate: Smile or Die
Smile or Die
By: Barbara Ehrenreich
I had trouble a video of my interest until I watch “Smile or Die” by Barbara Ehrenreich. She talks about in today “perfect” world to get a job, you need a positive attitude, skills and experience doesn’t matter anymore. And when you hit you hit a low point in your life, you have to “get over it”, “put on a smiley face” and “stop complaining”. I can relate to that because, it’s kind of the same thing when it comes to high school student because, I remember when I was going through some really tough time in high school and when I talked to my parents and some of my teachers they told me I should “suck it up” because a teenager (like myself) shouldn’t be going through such things when it’s the beginning of my life and I shouldn’t complain. A good lesson I’ve learn in watching this video is that we as human, has grown to be greedy. We don’t have time to be worrying about some guy who lost their jobs, if it pays good money and there’s an open spot the other guy will take it. As long it doesn’t affect their lives, you are the least of their worries.
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https://www.thersa.org/discover/videos/rsa-animate/2010/03/rsa-animate---smile-or-die/
RSAnimate: The Paradox of Choice
"The Paradox of Choice," by Professor Renata Salecl, is a persuasive presentation. We live our lives with the choices we make; some are important, some are not. Solecl said "choices provoke anxiety and there is less and less of a feeling that choices is actually related to social change." I absolutely agree with this statement. In our modern society of today the most vulnerable target group amongst us - the children. Most of teens are suffering from social media anxiety. They are "afraid to be laughed at, to be judged by others for the choices they made, they choose what others are choosing and often some of these choices involve a loss," Solecl claimed. How often do we hear teens taking their own lives due to bullying - often enough. We worry too much of what others would think - it's consuming! Let's provoke social change before it paralyzes us. "The Paradox of Choice" is worth watching.
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RSAnimate: Drive
After watching almost all of the RSAnimate videos, I found two that were interesting. But since I had to choose only one, the winner was “Drive” by Dan Pink. I especially liked this video, because it was about improving human conditions and making the world a better place. Some of the other videos talked about the problems in the world and in society, but did not offer solutions or simply they were not convincing ones. However, this particular video, offered persuasive solutions based on science and scientific experiments. It was interesting to know that we are purpose maximizers and not profit maximizers; and that we are driven mainly by three factors – Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose. At the end of the video, Pink’s message was “If we start treating people like people, and not assuming that they are simply horses, not only we would build organisations and work lives that make us better off, but we would make the world a little bit better.” And in my opinion, that is a message worth watching!
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"Smile or Die," by Barbara Ehrenreich, indicates the issue of over optimism in the society. Absolutely, positive attitudes are necessary in our life, but it may lead to a delusion without thinking what the reality is. People consider losing job is a new opportunity and ignore the reality that they are fired and there are mortgage and rents need to pay. There is an interesting example she mentioned that a men gets fired because he said the price of their products can’t rise forever. It’s the truth, isn’t it? However, people only want to hear positive thoughts. They believe the force of thinking can make those ideas come true. In fact, the magnetism of your mind is too tiny to bring what you what. You can’t change the world with your thoughts. You need to put your thoughts into actions. As a result, people should find a balance between being optimistic and being too optimistic.
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RSAnimate: The Secret Power of Times
“The Secret Power of Times,” by Professor Philip Zimbardo, has many very interesting and helpful ideas. It has lead me to understand how our individual perspective on time affects our work, health and well-being. He categorizes people into six of time zones: two who focus in the past (past positive and past negative), two in the present, and two in the future. The people who live in the past time zone, will always deal with past memories; whether it was sweat memories (success, happy birthday) or bad memories (regret and failures). They who live in for the future, will tend to work rather than to play, and also avoid temptation. However, the majority of young people, whom has affected so badly with the negative-side of technology, are living the present mindset. They are people who can’t wait; for them, waiting is a waste of time. Ironically, the adults do not know the change in our kids. “We are under-estimating the power of technology in re-wiring young people’s brains,” said Zimbardo. So, in summary, I agree with him that by simply understanding our own and other time perspectives, many of life’s puzzles can be solved. His ideas are very intriguing.
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RSAnimate : The Secret Power of Times
I watched “The Secret Powers of Time,” by Professor Philip Zimbardo. His video was the most memorable compare to the other two videos that I watched because of the explanation of why people behave differently among their time orientation. The most interesting fact is when he describes there are 6 main time zones that people live in: 2 focus on the past, 2 focus on the present and 2 focus on the future. It helps me to figure out that I am a past oriented person who thinks of only regrets and failures. I was amazed about the truth result. However, the second memorable part is about children dropping the school in America; he tells that a child drops out of school every 9 second because they are so into their own creative world. In the result, the boys spent more than 10,000 hours on the computer game until the age of 21 years old. I doubt the true, but when I look around the society that I'm living in, I agreed right away. The last memorable fact is when people can't wait for the computer to boot up and waiting for the program to download. It reminded me that we are loading our pace of life too fast and we are drain into the fast technology systems. For these reasons, I strongly recommend this video to parents to let them know the serious of the reality.
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RSAnimate: The Truth About Dishonesty
In the video “The Truth About Dishonesty” by Dan Ariely, he makes a very interesting comment on our society. Ariely claims people try to balance two goals at the same time. “On the one hand we want to be able to look good in the mirror about ourselves. On the other hand we want to benefit from dishonesty.” It all depends on humanity’s –rationalisations. For example, as humans, we all know cheating is wrong, but still some people cheat a little bit for their benefit. In fact, they don’t feel guilty about their actions because they have excuse for their mistakes and see themselves as good people. If they don’t confess their wrong actions, it can lead them to become big liars. “The Truth About Dishonesty” is an eye-opening video and I absolutely recommend that my classmates watch it.
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“The Paradox of Choice”, by Professor Renata Salecl, is one of the most powerful and persuasive clip that I have watched among many RSAinmate. This video is demonstrating several reasons about why people are being afraid of when they make a choice. The most impact reason was that choice involved loss all the time. Every time we need to make a decision and that specific decision will bring results, including some benefits and damages. According to my recent experience, I had an anxiety when I was in a clothes store in metro town centre. There was a really nice denim jacket and I was struggling if I had to buy it or not. I kept comparing benefits and losses, followed by my choice. Likewise, I was able to substitute my own experience while I was watching “The Paradox of Choice.” It helped my understanding a lot about “the choice” and persuaded me strongly. —153 words
"The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us," by Dan Pink, reveals a strategy that could create revolution in long term. He says that money is a motivator at work. The best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table." This strategy produces focused ordinary results. But what really produces extraordinary results? The answer to this question is based on 3 factors--autonomy, mastery and purpose. Autonomy is the human desire to be self-directed. Atlassian, an Australian software company, proved that only one day of pure autonomy could lead the mankind to a whole array of innovative and new products. Pink taught us that if we want a revolutionary society, motivation is also required alongside money, and this motivation only can be achieved by letting people choose their own way of thinking and doing something. Following Pink's strategy would definitely make our world a better place for living.
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Fatemeh Faraji Karimipour
“ Changing Education Paradigms “
“Every country on Earth reforming public Education.” The rsanimation by Sir Ken Robinson was
Persuasive and intereting because it is about Education, and how we can change that. He says there are
two reason for it”economic” and “cultural”. How we educate our children for model Globalization.He
wrote we can not expect that it goes very fast.The second reason is cultural. Our parents went to school
and college and get a job. After “industrial Revolution”it was like everybody should study. Many people
were against it. The rsanimation talks about ADHD children. This children are distracted from school
subject. They cannot concentrate themselves on i- phone, computer and many T.V channels.The doctors
put them “on dangerous drugs as routinely as tonsils to be taken off.”And he talks about “Aesthetic and
anaesthetic experiences.” He says that it is a bad idea to put these people on drugs.”I like this
rsanimation because in some countries you don’t have go to school to get the job. That’s good for
distracted children. They don’t need to take drugs that brings bad experiences.
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