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Planet Antares Offers a Complete Vending Service
Planet Antares is a planet-wide vending service that provides snacks, drinks, and other sandwiches to anyone who may need them. The company was formed in response to the large number of hungry mouths wandering the streets and cities of Earth.
The way Planet Antares works is simple: order online or through their app, check with their delivery person for your order location (they will confirm for sure if you want them to deliver there), then go outside and wait for your sandwich or beverage. It's like walking into Subway without the hassle!
Write an introduction to an informative and factual blog post titled "Be Mindful at Work". Use information from a published source, cite any references you used, and create a reference section at the end of your post.
Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-mindful-self-express/201503/mindfulness-at-work
In the early 1990s, I was a young psychologist doing research on human happiness. I came across an intriguing study in which researchers had wired up participants to brain monitors and then asked them to do nothing more than look at their own face in the mirror for two minutes . . . with no alteration to their facial expressions, no thought about what they looked like—just looking at themselves in silence and stillness for those two minutes.
I was fascinated by this study, and I wrote up a report on it for my faculty paper. I was soon contacted by the folks at Mind/Body Medical Institute who asked if I would be their lead researcher for a new form of meditation research. It was an exciting opportunity, though I wasn't sure what exactly they were looking for. After all, they weren't going to pay me to just sit quietly and watch my own face in the mirror; there had to be something more happening.
After some discussion, it became clear that they wanted me to bring as much of myself into the lab as possible—to be mindful of everything that was happening around me . . . at work and even at home. I was thrilled to accept the challenge, and I set to work. I started by asking my wife if she'd be willing to tape me while I was at work—just me at my desk, being mindful of whatever it is that I'd normally be doing.
She agreed. And so, one day a week for several weeks in a row, she sat in the living room with the camera and videotaped what happened when I arrived at work. She also actually went along with the experiment and sat next to me at my desk as I worked on various experiments. Her job was just to keep giving me instructions—to speak into the microphone every now and then about things that are important to my work life. Things like "I'm going to need your help on this one," and "Do you think the research I'm working on might have something to do with how we run the company?" It was fascinating.
As my research went on, I realized I was really fascinated by what it looked like to be totally present, focused just on being right here. This seemed to me the single most important skill for people who want to do well in their work. In fact, when people ask me about my career, I usually tell them that neither of my degrees are in psychology; instead, they both come from the school of Mindful Professors.
It makes me feel lucky to work with so many smart people in such a creative field at a place where we can just be here, and do what needs to be done. It may seem like such a simple thing, mindfulness . . . but the more I learned about it, the more I fell in love with it. And when you realize that this simple quality of attention is the one thing that you can actually control—that you can bring yourself into your work or your home life by choosing to be mindful—it's pretty tempting!
Since that day 25 years ago, I've learned a great deal about why paying attention in this way is so important for personal happiness and for success in our careers. For instance, the first thing I realized was that there is something about paying close attention to what's happening in our lives that makes it easier for us to notice what's really going on. By focusing on the present, we are more likely to notice what's bothering us, and we become better at seeing through all the distractions around us. We become more effective at problem solving and decision making. We become more effective at communicating effectively with others, and we are better able to predict how others will behave in a given situation . . . which lets us prepare and respond before things get out of hand.
Now, this may all sound very complicated, but it's really not. I'm going to show you how paying attention to the present moment—to your work and your day-to-day life—will lead you to important insights about yourself. Most of all, it'll give you a clear idea of what you need in order to do what needs doing . . . whether it's getting out of bed in the morning or finishing that report due at 4 p.m.
The good news is that this skill can be learned. I am living proof!
Write an introduction to a critical review on a published article "Culture, Mindsets and Risk" published in Harvard Business Review.
Source: https://hbr.org/2011/02/culture-mindsets-and-risk
In the 1960s, psychologists Marc Hauser and Paul Bloom set out to investigate what different cultural groups thought about morality. The experiment consisted of having subjects watch a film in which a child was put on trial for killing his parents in a car accident. In some cultures there would be calls for the punishment of the child to be increased—but no such cries from other cultures. Afterward, as subjects were asked to write down their own ideas about justice, it was clear that there were vast differences in how people would respond.
These findings led some to believe that morality is an innate quality of human life that can be learned only within one's own culture—and, therefore, no culture can be judged by another. And yet other research shows that, in fact, other cultures are often found guilty as charged: The Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Ache of Paraguay were both deemed by Westerners to have unacceptable levels of cruelty toward their children, even though they thought nothing of it.
When I was in grad school, the prevailing idea was that we are born with a trait of universality—or what we might as well call natural moral fairness. This was partially based on studies of prosocial behavior in infants: Babies have a strong tendency to reward or punish others in proportion to their needs.
This suggests that babies are already equipped to see right and wrong and naturally feel sympathetic toward others. There's no need to learn it; it's just there.
Conclusion: We're born with the capacity to feel morally good.
One man took this idea and ran with it. In a classic study, Michael Tomasello, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, found that kids as young as 18 months will help others even when there is nothing in it for themselves.
How did he do this? He put a bunch of kids into a room where they could play with some toys by themselves. A second group was shown that they could share toys by putting them into a special box. And then he left them alone so they could play with their toys or give their toys to someone else in the other room (who would also be playing).