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Can you learn how to be positive or resilient?

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Can you learn how to be positive or resilient?

We all know someone who says: “I’m sorry, I’m like that!”, but is this totally true? The answer is, no, it is not true. We all have the ability to change if we set it as a goal to improve our quality of life and relationship with others.

 

Because human beings are not something degerminated. We are being all the time,  and this is essential to keep in mind when making the wise decision to change those not so positive characteristics of our personality.

 

The study, published in the journal Nature on October 19, details how “a team of researchers from the Princeton Neuroscience Institute placed small mice in proximity to larger, more aggressive mice. And they found that a display of defensive behaviors predicted the mice’s ability to be resilient after the stressful event. In addition, the scientists found that by activating dopamine while the mice were defending themselves, they could further bolster resilience”.

 

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The article about the study, published on the website scitechdaily.com, relates how “Resilience can be learned and even reinforced”.

 

So we could say that even though we may have a tendency to certain moods, resilience is a virtue that can be worked on, and that will undoubtedly help us to cope with life situations in a better way. In addition, we have the ability to teach our group to include this attitude in the different situations that may arise.

 

“In the study, the researchers measured resilience by monitoring the behaviors of the mice over the 10 days during which they were attacked by the aggressor.

 

The mice that tended not to fight back ended up displaying depression-like behaviors, such as social avoidance after the stressful event. Meanwhile, the mice that fought back showed greater resistance.

 

By stimulating dopamine while the mice defended themselves, the researchers found they could make the mice even more resilient. On the other hand, stimulating dopamine during avoidance behavior did not make the mice more resistant.

 

It’s a complicated environment where a mouse has to decide what to do with a bully mouse”, said Ilana Witten, professor of neuroscience and author of the study. “The decision he makes has profound consequences in terms of how it ends”.

 

So, it could be said that although everything depends on the glass with which you look at it, it will depend on each person how clean or cloudy their glass is, and also, be clear that it is the decision of each one to choose to be positive every day. . Since although we cannot end the problems, we can face them in a more accurate and forceful way, instead of fleeing and losing due to lack of strength.

 

This type of investigation, especially in the times in which we live, where there is negative news that spreads quickly, wars, invasions, crises, inflation, and hunger; it is very easy to have win than to give up. If you take into account that we are capable of changing our reality with our attitude, we are certain that we have that power, the last word to decide our attitude.

 

It is also very important to keep in mind that the reference group in which we live has a direct influence, for better or worse, on our attitudes towards life. Being real the saying: “you are the average of the 5 people with whom you relate the most”.

 

Are you willing to be an agent of change in your reference group? If you are interested in this topic, we share a series of readings related to the subject:

 

“Behavioural and dopaminergic signatures of resilience” by Lindsay Willmore, Courtney Cameron, John Yang, Ilana B. Witten and Annegret L. Falkner, 19 October 2022, Nature.

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05328-2

Researchers Find That Resilience Can Be Learned, and Can Even Be Reinforced

Withstand Psychiatric Stress: Jumping Gene Strongly Linked to Depression, Fear, and Anxiety
SciTechDaily, 2022

How Does the Brain Decide in Chaos? SciTechDaily, 2022

Neuroscience Experiment Shows How Dopamine Drives Hallucination-Like Perception in Mice. Mike ONeill, SciTechDaily, 2021

Reward Neurotransmitter Dopamine Involved in Recognizing Emotions
Society for Neuroscience, SciTechDaily, 2022

“Feel Good” Brain Chemical Dopamine Can Be Willfully Controlled
Mike ONeill, SciTechDaily, 2021

Resilience, Rebekkah Smith Aldrich, 2018

Resilience : The Science of Mastering Life’s Greatest Challenges, Steven M. Southwick, Dennis S. Charney, 2012.

Finding Resilience : Change and Uncertainty in Nature and Society, Brian Walker, 2019.

The Resilience Workbook : Essential Skills to Recover From Stress, Trauma, and Adversity, Glenn R. Schiraldi, 2017.

Researching Resilience, Linda Liebenberg, Michael Ungar, 2099.

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Fall Back

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Do you look forward to the end of daylight saving time? Or do you dread it?

Word of the Day: predilection

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Self-Regulated Learning and Personality

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Self-Regulated Learning and Personality

By Althea Need Kaminske

I recently taught about effective learning strategies in one of my courses and, as I do every week, reserved a day for questions and clarifications. My students asked a version of a question that I get a lot about effective learning strategies: “If this is so effective, why isn’t it being taught in schools?”. I’ve talked about different aspects of this previously (and argued that in the U.S. our time and money would be better spent on school meals ) but I wanted to talk about a different challenge to simply teaching learning strategies and hoping for the best: studying can be complicated! Improving students’ knowledge and understanding of effective strategies would certainly be helpful – we’ve spent the last year writing a book hoping to do just that! – but it is only one component of effective studying and learning. When students are tasked with making choices about their learning a number of cognitive, motivational, behavioral, and contextual factors come into play. The suite of skills learners use to handle those factors is referred to as self-regulated learning (1).

Self-Regulated Learning

Pintrich (2000) defined self-regulated learning as “an active, constructive process whereby learners set goals for their learning and then attempt to monitor, regulate, and control their cognition, motivation, and behavior, guided and constrained by their goals and the contextual features of their environment” (2). In this framework, self-regulated learning occurs in a series of stages (1, 2, 3). First, in a forethought phase, learners must set goals and plan out their learning activities. Next, in a learning or performance phase, learners must engage in the learning task and monitor and control their learning. Finally, in a self-reflection or assessment/adjustment phase, learners must evaluate their learning and decide how they feel about it.

Even if a student understands that a certain strategy is effective, they may have trouble setting reasonable goals or assessing their performance. Without proper time management skills and academic motivation, this student may not see the full benefit of an effective learning strategy. This is reflected in a meta-analysis of psychosocial skills, study skills, and college outcomes (4). Researchers found that the best predictors of college (university) GPA were academic self-efficacy and achievement motivation, while academic self-efficacy and academic related skills were predictive of retention (persistence) (4). Academic success is about more than just knowing what works and what doesn’t. Self-regulated learning emphasizes that learning is a process that is greatly affected by motivational and attitudinal components.

I would like to note that there are a lot of interesting ways in which different learning strategies may influence self-regulated learning. See this review of student ability, self-regulated spaced practice, and performance in online learning by Carolina.

Does Personality Play a Role?

An intriguing question about student study habits and self-regulated learning is to what degree individual difference like personality may play a role. A recent study by Albar and colleagues (2022) investigated whether there was a correlation between personality traits and learning strategies (4). They measured the Big 5 personality traits (5) using the NEO-Five Factor Inventory-3 (6), and measured study skills using the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) (7).

The Big 5 consists of Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism (making the handy acronym: OCEAN). Each of these traits are mutually exclusive and fall on a spectrum. This means that where you fall on each of these traits does not depend on where you fall on the others. For example, it’s just as likely that someone scores high on both Agreeableness and Extraversion as is that they score low on Agreeableness and high on Extraversion (and are probably somewhat unpleasant at parties). Thus, while people may share similarities, everyone has a unique personality made up of these traits. Further, while it is possible for personality to change over time, on the whole these traits remain relatively stable. It’s unlikely for someone who is very agreeable to suddenly become very unagreeable, though there may be slight changes over time.

Coursera appoints Tim Hannan as Chief Marketing Officer

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Coursera appoints Tim Hannan as Chief Marketing Officer

By Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO Coursera

Over 110 million learners have come to Coursera to learn new skills and transform their lives. I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished, and we still have much work ahead. Amid rapid digitization, there are millions of learners around the world whom we have yet to reach that need access to high-quality, affordable learning to prepare for the digital economy.

To help us seize this opportunity, I’m excited to welcome Tim Hannan as our new Chief Marketing Officer, effective October 31, 2022.

Tim will harness the full power of Coursera’s marketing engine to identify new growth opportunities, deploy data-driven solutions, and find effective ways to bring the Coursera community together to transform lives through learning. 

With over 15 years of leadership experience at top consumer and enterprise marketplaces, Tim brings expertise in growing and scaling brands to Coursera.

During his nearly five years at eHealth, Tim served as Chief Marketing Officer and, most recently, Chief Revenue Officer. He oversaw and optimized departments, built industry-leading digital marketing capabilities, and created a more dynamic, rapidly growing business. Previously, Tim was CMO of Ibotta, Inc., one of the nation’s top shopping apps, and held leadership positions at Trip.com, Orbitz Worldwide, and Expedia. He earned his undergraduate degree in quantitative economics and finance from Providence College and an MBA from London Business School. 

As we welcome Tim, I want to extend my deepest gratitude to Kim Caldbeck, who has served as our CMO since 2018 and will continue as an advisor to Coursera. Since joining the company in 2015, she helped launch our enterprise and degree segments, powered affordable degrees through data-driven marketing, and led go-to-market strategies for two initiatives during the pandemic that reached 3.7 million students and workers. Kim wants to spend more time with her family while continuing to serve our mission, and I’m glad we can support her. Thank you for setting us up for the future, Kim. 

I look forward to seeing Tim expand on the foundation Kim built and enhance our marketing system so that we can further deliver on our mission and better serve our learners, partners, and customers around the world.

How I Went From Structural Field Engineer to Software Engineer at Okta in 6 Months

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How I Went From Structural Field Engineer to Software Engineer at Okta in 6 Months
How I Went From Structural Field Engineer to Software Engineer at Okta in 6 Months

Learning to code so that you can land a job in tech can feel daunting. That’s why we’re sharing inspiring stories from Codecademy’s community — to show how people like you (yes, you!) can embark on a learning journey and end up with a totally new career. We hope these stories serve as a reminder that there’s no single path to a more fulfilling work life.

Today’s story is from Michael Wiltfong, a 29-year-old Software Engineer in Test at Okta living in Ottawa, Canada. Read more stories from Codecademy learners here — and be sure to share your story here.

Why I chose to learn to code

“What really motivated me was my happiness. I was in the structural engineering space, but I wasn’t doing what I wanted. I found myself thinking: What’s my next move? I was four years out of college, and had no design experience, so finding a mechanical engineering job was a little difficult. That’s when I realized, no matter what direction I go, I’m pretty much starting from zero or taking one step back at least.

I moved to Canada, and my first job was with Shopify on the customer support side. That job reaffirmed that I liked the tech space. Shopify offered low-code solutions, and there was one app written in a watered-down version of Ruby. I found that these are the types of questions I like to answer. That’s when I said, I really like this. I want a career in this. What are the ways that can facilitate this?

At this time, I was already on Codecademy doing the Full-Stack Career Path, but knew I wanted to put more focus into it.”

How I made time to learn

“I became a night owl and a morning person, which isn’t the best combination, because around 1 p.m., I would be like, I don’t want to do anything. It’s really difficult to find time to do everything but I was lucky to have my wife who really supported me.

Even now, I really lean on my community. We do a study session every Tuesday, and then a JavaScript hour every Wednesday — and that was like my anchor. Taking this position [as Codecademy Detroit chapter lead] was how I motivated myself.

Sometimes I failed; there were days where I threw something up on the screen and I thought I knew how to describe it, but I didn’t know. Luckily we have really good members who are always willing to help. There was one member based in Bali who is a Senior Engineer with a lot of experience; he came to a study session and explained  how he would do something.  It was different from what I had learned originally, so I learned something new.”

Want to join a local Codecademy chapter? Find one near you here and connect with other learners.

How I saved up money to switch careers

“You can’t return knowledge. The only question I had for myself was whether I was going to get valuable knowledge from the money I was putting down. That’s what I asked myself with my Codecademy Pro membership: Am I learning something from doing this? And the answer is: Most definitely. You should see my Codecademy profile — there’s so much stuff that I want to come back to and learn.”

How long it took me to land a job

“It’s kind of tricky to say: I was already in a customer support role at Shopify when I started learning through Codecademy, but after gaining more experience and showing up at the Codecademy chapter, I would say about six months later I got a big break as a Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer — although I was still learning on the job.

As I was learning to code, I would see a job that looked interesting and I’d apply for it. You hear from job seekers — especially people who are switching careers — that it’s a numbers game. Some people have really impressive numbers when it comes to applying for jobs, like 4,000 applications, 30 interviews, 20 of which were second rounds. I thought, I might as well  start applying. And the more experience I got, whatever it was, whatever task it was, I always made sure to update my resume with that. One day, it happened: I got the opportunity I applied for.”

How I got in the door

“I did a bootcamp program and became a co-lead of the Detroit Codecademy chapter. During that time is when I got my first job in tech, in software development, as a Quality Assurance Engineer. I was doing manual testing. Many of the programmers didn’t like writing unit tests, but they saw I was really enthusiastic about it, and asked if I wanted to write unit tests for them. I willingly took it on.

At that point, we had been writing unit tests in the chapter for a community-led project working on a band name generator app. So I was writing unit tests at work, I was writing unit tests after work, and I got really good at it.

For my current job at Okta, I saw on LinkedIn that someone was advertising for a Front-End Engineer position so I messaged the recruiter. We spoke, and the recruiter said, ‘They’re looking for someone with four years experience — you have maybe around a year, but I think you’d be a good fit for this.’ So that was the first step: taking that first step and getting the recommendation.”

How I nailed the interview

“The first round of interviews was, in hindsight, the hardest. It was a coding interview with the person who is now my mentor. It was Leetcode-esque, and it was agnostic, meaning I could pick any language. I chose JavaScript with Python as my backup.

I didn’t do well. I left the interview feeling, If I put this in Leetcode or AlgoExpert, I’m not going to get a green checkmark. Then there was a practical part of the interview, because it is a testing position. So the questions were like, How would you test this? I told my wife after the first round, ‘I don’t think I got it. I don’t think it’s going to happen.’

About two weeks later, I got invited to the second round. The recruiter believed in me — I don’t know why, but she did. She told me, ‘They agree that you need more experience. Between now and the next interview, work on these things.’ When the recruiter told me these things, most of which were technical aspects, I quickly stopped everything and said, I need to do these coding exercises.

There were some things on the second round that were heady to learn, like testing frameworks and things like that. I did a little bit better on the second round: I identified the data structure and I gave an answer that worked conceptually. The third interview was purely practical. I’d been reading and trying to find ways to supplement my learning and testing at this point, and by chance I read a random article on Datadog that helped me get past the third interview. The fourth round was the final round, and they asked questions like, ‘What do you think of our culture?’”

How I evaluated the offer

“When you’re doing a career-switch, you kind of tap into a culture where a lot of people are talking about how to negotiate your salary and benefits. But because I had already come from a job that really took a toll on my ego and my mental health, I was asking myself, Is this a place where I’m going to be happy? Is this a place where I’m going to stop looking at other jobs? Am I going to be excited every day to do this job?

After I met with the director of our department, I looked online to see what the company publishes about their culture. And I said, ‘I think I’m going to do it.’”

How day one & beyond went

“I wasn’t sure how this change in careers was going to go. At Okta, they have a 2-day ramp-up program where you learn about the benefits, the culture, and the company’s origin story. I found that I could rally behind the company. There was a moment at the end of the presentation where I looked around and was like, I made it. I’m a Software Engineer.

Immediately, I was doing work that I not only was succeeding in, but that I felt accomplished doing. Basically, I started getting tasks where I was coding and actually contributing. It was really exciting.”

What I wish I knew before I started learning

“I would have started learning how to do interviews much sooner. Once you learn the basics of a language — whether it’s JavaScript, Python, or Java — that’s just the vehicle that you use to carry the knowledge. In interviews, it’s data structures and algorithms. As soon as I got JavaScript under my belt, I wish I’d learned data structures and started doing interview questions  so that I’d be ready when the day came.”

Learn like Michael

See the courses and paths that helped him most.

Not sure where to start? Check out our personality quiz! We’ll help you find the best programming language to learn based on your strengths and interests.

Want to share your Codecademy learner story? Drop us a line here. And don’t forget to join the discussions in our community.

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