{"id":3869,"date":"2016-08-22T14:27:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T22:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/sdgc\/cgi-bin\/ycisl\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2016-08-22T14:37:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T22:37:58","slug":"linkedin-positivity-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/?p=3869","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn: Positivity Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #339966;\">P<\/span><span style=\"color: #999999;\">OSITIV<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">E<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>This entry is about a LinkedIn posting attributed to Pravin Shiv (sorry, I did not save the\u00a0URL ). Since I am not sure of the copyright behind the graphic that was posted, I will just paraphrase here instead of inserting\u00a0the graphic.<\/p>\n<p>The graphic is of a &#8220;positivity test&#8221; and asks you to think of words that start with the letter &#8220;P&#8221; and end with the letter &#8220;E&#8221; &#8211; and it gives you 10 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>This fits well with the Positive Mindset topic in our YCISL workshops.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting for several reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the word &#8220;positive&#8221; can readily be derived from the word &#8220;positivity&#8221; on the slide.<\/li>\n<li>there are actually a quite a few positive words that fit these rules.<\/li>\n<li>there are relatively few negative words that fit these rules.<\/li>\n<li>there are several neutral\/non-emotional and bi-polar words too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So it would be interesting to try this positivity test in the YCISL workshops and reflect on the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POSITIVE This entry is about a LinkedIn posting attributed to Pravin Shiv (sorry, I did not save the\u00a0URL ). Since I am not sure of the copyright behind the graphic that was posted, I will just paraphrase here instead of inserting\u00a0the graphic. The graphic is of a &#8220;positivity test&#8221; and asks you to think of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3875,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}