Positive Psychology: Coaching or Teaching? What is the Difference? Harvard Education video

Friday, November 2, 2012

Coaching or Teaching? What is the Difference? Harvard Education video

John Wooden: "Details create success"

"Atul Gawande’s Askwith Forum talk covered observations from sports and music, as well as anecdotes from his career — including his experience working with a surgical coach. In addition to suggesting some technical changes (like changing the position of his elbow), the coach also 'pointed out the ways I’d missed opportunities to help the team perform better,' Gawande said. After making changes and re-focusing on small details, 'I saw my complication rates go down.'” - Harvard Gazette

Atul Gawande is a physician and journalist. He serves as a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and associate director of their Center for Surgery and Public Health. He is also an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He writes on medicine and public health for The New Yorker and Slate and is the author of the books Complications, Better, and The Checklist Manifesto.

Atul Gawande: The Difference Between Coaching and Teaching

Atul Gawande: The Difference Between Coaching and Teaching

by HarvardEducation

On Wednesday, October 24, HMS and HSPH Professor Atul Gawande applied his observations from the fields of sports, music, schools, and medicine, to a discussion of how different professions produce top-level performers.

Read more: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news-impact/2012/10/atul-gawande-the-difference-between-coaching-and-teaching/#ixzz2B62a52nW

Published on Nov 2, 2012 by HarvardEducation

On Wednesday, October 24, HMS and HSPH Professor Atul Gawande applied his observations from the fields of sports, music, schools, and medicine, to a discussion of how different professions produce top-level performers.

Read more: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news-impact/2012/10/atul-gawande-the-difference-be...

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Positive Psychology given credence by Academia:

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Commentators on the subject Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, note that:

"The field of positive psychology at the subjective level is about valued subjective experiences: well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the past); hope and optimism (for the future); and flow and happiness (in the present).

At the individual level, it is about positive individual traits: the capacity for love and vocation, courage, interpersonal skill, aesthetic sensibility, perseverance, forgiveness, originality, future mindedness, spirituality, high talent, and wisdom.

At the group level, it is about the civic virtues and the institutions that move individuals toward better citizenship: responsibility, nurturance, altruism, civility, moderation,tolerance, and work ethic."