RESOURCES:
Stradivarius Effect:
- Violinists Can’t Tell the Difference Between Stradivarius Violins and New Ones – Discover, January 2, 2012
- Players and Listeners Both Prefer a New Violin to a Stradivarius – The Atlantic, May 8, 2017
- Study Finds the Accidental Genius of Stradivarius Violins – The Telegraph, July 11, 2018
- The Secrets of the Violin – Part III: The Stradivarius Effect – Medici.tv (documentary)
- The Look of Music – Harvard Gazette, August 19, 2013
- People Favor Naturals Over Strivers — Even Though They Say Otherwise – Harvard Business Review, May 19, 2016
Dunning-Kruger Effect:
- Why Bad Leaders Think They Are Good Leaders – Business Insider, August 19, 2017
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect Helps Explain Why People Resist Hearing Constructive Criticism – Forbes, February 22, 2017
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect Shows Why Some People Think They’re Great Even When Their Work is Terrible – Forbes, January 24, 2017
Self-Assessments:
- MindTools.com EQ Self-Assessment (FREE) – A great tool for a simple assessment of your emotional intelligence and some steps to improvement. (15 questions, approximately 5 minutes)
- Rebel Talents’ Rebel Assessment (FREE) – How much of a rebel are you? This is a fantastic test to see how rebellious you are in your problem-solving skills…and how to make the most of that talent! (30 questions, approximately 15 minutes)
Other Resources:
- Drunk People are Better at Creative Problem-Solving – Harvard Business Review, May-June 2018 issue
- Is the Dress White and Gold or Black and Blue? – Business Insider
- Bullet Journal: We discussed this as a tool to help track and see emerging trends that can assist you with problem-solving, goal-setting, and EQ development and improvement. The link above is a how-to from the inventor of the Bullet Journal. Also, here’s an alternative link to a very minimalist approach to the Bullet Journal. And one more link you might enjoy (though this video is somewhat lengthy) is this video entitled “what I was doing wrong in my bullet journal.”
Downloads:
- Problem Solving with Emotional Intelligence (worksheet)