Dave is a CEO of an Internet startup that failed to get funding, and he’s got to find something else to do. But he’s so focused on his failure that he’s having a hard time seeing what talents and skills he could leverage. Something invisible but crucial is standing in his way — his mental model. Let me explain what I mean.

Carol Dweck is a professor of psychology at Stanford who studies why some people succeed and others fail. What she’s discovered : At a young age, people develop beliefs that organize their world and give meaning to their experiences. These mental models determine the goals we pursue and the ways we go about achieving them.

1. Fixed mind-set
Intelligence is static and leads to a desire to look smart and therefore a tendency to:

• Avoid challenges
• Give up easily when faced with an obstacle
• See effort as fruitless or worse
• Ignore useful negative criticism
• Feel threatened by the success of others

As a result, may plateau early and achieve less than full potential

2. Growth mind-set
Intelligence can be developed and leads to a desire to learn and therefore a tendency to:

• Embrace challenges
• Persist in the face of setbacks
• See effort as a path to mastery
• Learn from criticism
• Find lessons and inspiration in the success of others

As a result, reach ever-higher levels of achievement

When someone like Dave, with a fixed mind-set, fails at something, they believe the situation is out of their control and nothing can be done.

They lose faith in their ability to perform. They shrink previous successes and inflate failures. They give up.

Those with a growth orientation do not see failure as an indictment of their capacity. For those folks, a problem is just an opportunity to learn new things. Their attention is on finding strategies for learning. When they blow it or meet an obstacle, they realize that they just haven’t found the right strategy yet. They dig in and make optimistic predictions: “The harder it gets, the harder I need to try. I need to remember what I already know about this. I’ll get this soon.”

Two questions can determine failure or success

These mind-sets can powerfully affect our career trajectories. One of Dweck’s research studies was with Chinese students in Hong Kong who were given the opportunity to learn English, which in the long run would increase their ability to get good jobs. The students with the fixed mind-set turned down the opportunity because they knew it was hard. But the students with the growth mind-set said, “ Sure, I’ll do it; e ven if I don’t do well, I’ll grow my capacity.”

She also discovered that extremely highly paid athletes with a fixed mind-set often don’t do well on a team. They decide they don’t need to practice because they are so good, and they flame out.

Want further proof that success comes from accepting that you will make mistakes and you have the ability to learn from them?

Would-be neurosurgeons were studied to determine who would succeed and who would fail. The researcher discovered that the answer came down to how they responded to the following two questions:

1. Do you ever make mistakes?
2. If so, what is the worst mistake you ever made?

Those who flunked out claimed never to make mistakes or attributed any error to things beyond their control. Successful neurosurgical students admitted to many mistakes and described what they had learned about avoiding them in the future.

Dweck’s research offers powerful evidence that when it comes to moving through the challenges of a job search and career change, we need a growth mind-set. When we see our minds as capable of learning and life as a chance to grow, then everything we do is grist for the mill. We don’t give up when we experience setbacks but learn what we can from the experience and begin again, wiser.

Your attention is focused on the question, “ How can I use the constraints and challenges I’m facing to grow my own capacity?”

Where do these orientations come from? It turns out that it has to do with whether you think intelligence is fixed — you’re born as smart as you’ll ever be — or changeable — you can get smarter throughout life. When provided with evidence that the brain can grow new pathways, fixed-oriented freshman college students on the verge of dropping out switched to a growth orientation and graduated.

What about you?

In working with hundreds of executives, I’ve found that many of us have a growth orientation in some of these attributes and not in others. Each person is different based on his early history. For instance, I’ve got no trouble with the first three or the last one. I’m still working on seeing mistakes as learning opportunities. There continues to be a voice of perfectionism inside me that panics when I find I’ve made an error, although it’s much softer than it used to be. And I still have trouble seeking out feedback because I’m afraid it will be negative. But I’m working on it! I’ve gotten much better at feeling the discomfort and asking for input anyway.

Looking at the list, is your mind-set a growth or fixed one? Which of these are easy? Difficult? Try to notice without beating yourself up. That just interferes with a growth mind-set because it reinforces the belief that you should know everything already.

After all, even know-it-alls don’t know it all. And accepting this premise is the key to success.

Jason E. Lewis

In order to create a better world with less people suffered from cancer, the American Cancer Society tirelessly holds a number of different events annually to encourage people all around to join in and help. One of them is the Coaches vs Cancer event, which is basically a joint effort by the American Cancer Society and the National Association of Basketball Coaches that empowers basketball coaches, their teams, and communities to help win the fight against cancer.

Last Friday, my friend and I went to see one of the basketball games in University of San Diego (USD) as part of the Coaches vs Cancer campaign. The game was between the USD Torreros and Standford Cardinals. It was a such a great game and USD won 77-64.

If every American Family wrapped just three presents in re-used materials during the winter holidays, it would save enough paper to cover nearly 50,000 football fields.

- Standford University Recycling Center

Copyright Kristoffer Tripplaar

After seeing these two wed, it was back to LA to continue cleaning out my grandparent’s house. Then we journeyed north to San Francisco, seeing old friends and visiting my old stomping grounds.

Enjoying Turkish food with my Godfather Stuart

Stanford Uni

We met up with friends from W&M, the PCT and even Emily, a long-lost friend who I found again on Facebook (of course!). Back eastside…..

from Nancy~ in AZ

I’ve been in awe of the fall colours (it’s been 2 years since we’ve been in this area in autumn) and eating crazy amounts of gorgeous gelato! I still can’t believe I get paid to eat gelato (and serve it to others)!

Pitango gelato!

Dan’s been drawing personal portraits and making miniature books! For Halloween we were gypsies and this past weekend we enjoyed stupendous sunshine while camping with friends in the Shenandoah’s.

But I’m not quite ready for winter…

Antes tenia otro blog que era un desastre, bueno, acá les dejo un video que es de Steve Jobs, se que dirán que soy un perno y bla bla bla, lo importante es su contenido.

Ahi va.

Steve Jobs is one of my heroes. I watch this commencement speech he gave to the Stanford Class of 2005 all the time. Figured I’d share.

“…you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. . . Believeing the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.”

Leaner Times at Harvard: No Cookies

No flapjacks, sausages and hot syrup in dorms; no pastries in the libraries and faculty have to buy their own cookies if they have a sweet-tooth.  A slide in the investment of their endowments; budget cuts and and a plain ole return to conservative spending habits have affected life on campuses like Harvard, Princeton and Stanford…

Read Full Article Here

So I started reading this piece of news, I guess you can call it, and was surprised to see that some places such as Standford have co-ed rooms. Think about it. We already have co-ed dorms, but now someone decided to take it to the next level. How does that make you feel? Would you want to go to a school that allows you to sleep in the same room as the opposite sex? Would that scare you?

As for me, I’m perfectly fine with the notion. It really doesn’t bother me. As long as there is an understanding between the men and I that there will be no touching, I can live with it. Although changing my clothes would be a problem. I guess the set up has a lot to do with how comfortable a person would be with the situation. I would go with it if it meant that the room was set up like a hotel suite. You know, one big room that has two bedrooms attached to it. But then again, that’s me. I wonder what the rest of the world has to say about it?

To read the article yourself, please click the link below.

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/013122.html

Hoje em dia, quando compramos uma câmera digital, ficamos presos ás definições que a marca impõe de origem na máquina, impedindo que o utilizador possa fazer grandes alterações ao estilo de fotografia, a não ser que a sua máquina custe uns bons milhares de Euros.

Em Standford, um estudante graduado Andrew Adams e o seu professor Marc Levoy, são os responsáveis por este projecto, que promete tornar as máquinas digitais do futuro, em verdadeiros mini-pc’s vocacionados para a fotografia, onde quase todas as peças podem ser substituidas, e todo o trabalho do software pode ser modificado pelo utilizador, de modo a obter fotos perfeitas, sem recurso a manipuladores de imagem.

Las mejores escuelas para cursar una MBA

Stanford, Darthmouth, el IPADE  Business School y la IESE de Barcelona están dentro del ranking de Forbes; las escuelas de Europa son las más rentables del mundo.

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (CNNExpansión.com) — En Estados Unidos, la universidad de Stanford es el mejor lugar para cursar una Master of Business Administration (MBA), sin embargo las escuelas de Europa son las más rentables del mundo, señala un ranking de la revista Forbes.

La lista, con periodicidad bimestral,  se divide en tres categorías: MBA de Estados Unidos, y MBA en el resto del mundo, que a su vez, ofrece las mejores opciones a uno y dos años. En este último listado, México está presente con el Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas (IPADE Business School) de la Universidad Panamericana en el quinto lugar de las diez mejores con programas MBA de dos años.

En los diez primeros lugares en la Unión Americana destaca la universidad de Stanford, seguido por Darthmouth y Harvard. La universidad de Columbia alcanzó la sexta posición y Yale logró colarse al número 10.

En la lista de escuelas extanjeras, Iberoamérica sólo está presente con el IPADE Business School de México y con otras universidades españolas como la IESE de Barcelona y el Instituto de Empresa de Madrid.

El ranking se realizó evaluando el desempeño de 4,000 graduados de 103 escuelas de negocios de todo el mundo que hayan finalizado sus estudios hace cinco años. Se calculó el tiempo que tardaron en recuperar su inversión y la evolución de sus salarios desde que finalizaron el curso.

Fuente: CnnExpansión.com
www.cnnexpansion.com.mx

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Researchers at Standford are now into their next stage of clinical trials of looking at low doses of Naltrexone for use with fibromyalgia patients. The first study which was implemented early in 2007 showed hope that Naltrexone might work for fibro patients with little side effects. Typically, Naltrexone is used in 50 mg dose to help treat alcohol and opiate addiction. They tested the drug for fibro in a very low dose, around to 4.5 mg. Instead of blocking the bodies pain receptors, the dosage of the medication “modulated activity of glial cells to act as a neuroprotectant and suppressant of proinflammatory cytokines”. (medpagetoday) The study was lead by Jarred Younger, PhD and Sean Mackey, MD, PhD. Here’s a great chart showing their results:

“Overall, self-reported, daily fibromyalgia symptoms (scale 0 – 100, with 100 being most severe symptoms). Time periods are: baseline, placebo, LDN, and washout. The data are separated into drug responders (solid line, 6 people) and drug nonresponders (broken line, 4 people). Drug responders are individuals who had at least a 30% greater reduction of symptoms during LDN versus placebo.” -stanford.edu

Hopefully by the end of this year we will know if the dug will help those of us with fibromyalgia.

Link to Stanford post

Here’s a great lecture from The Standford University Medical Center Health Hour:
ResearchChannel – An Update on Fibromyalgia

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O sea que ahora que ahora que me ha dado por escribir un blog de vez en cuando me he enterado que todavía no soy un blogger (o bloguero) propiamente dicho. Al parecer tengo que cumplir algunos requisitos como que me enlacen algún post, ir a un beers&blogs o escribir algo super inspirado, super profundo y super reflexivo. Como tengo tres visitas (gracias, queridos desconocidos!!!!!) y no conozco a nadie a quién no me de vergüenza pedirle que me enlace veo difícil el primer punto. Además no me gusta la cerveza, así que lo del beers&blogs es complicado. He decidido tirar por la calle de en medio y ponerme a teclear a ver si me gano los galones.

Lo que pasa es que yo de inspiración algo ando corto últimamente. Afortunadamente lo que si tengo es tiempo libre, así que me he puesto a buscar la inspiración por todos los cajones a ver si la encontraba. Como no ha habido suerte he llamado a mi musa, pero el abogado de la Srta. Keira Knightley me ha pedido por última vez que la deje en paz si no quiero problemas. No me ha quedado otra que buscar corriendo mi mantra particular en busca de la Iluminación.

Este maravilloso estado mental es alcanzado, en mi caso, de varias maneras. Normalmente llego a él por accidente a base de hincharme de chocolate, otras veces es una canción la que me provoca ese “click” etéreo, pero lo que sé que seguro que me va a llevar al Valhalla cerebral es repasar el discurso de graduación del curso 2005 de la Universidad de Stanford que fue pronunciado por Steve Jobs.

Para el que viva en una cueva y no lo conozca, Steve Jobs es el dios particular de los maqueros en general. No me voy a explayar sobre él porque en la Wikipedia viene hasta su talla de cinturón. Pero me interesa centrarme en su discurso.

Steve Jobs es un tío que dejó la universidad, fundó una empresa, triunfó en su sector, fue fulminantemente despedido, fundó otra empresa, triunfó en el nuevo sector, fue fulminantemente contratado por su anterior empresa, volvió a triunfar en el sector de ésta, padeció un cáncer incurable, dijo que se iba a curar, se curó, siguió triunfando, le transplantaron un hígado hace un mes y volvió para seguir triunfando.

El tío es un triunfador, eso está claro. Pero sobre todo es un luchador. Una persona que no se arruga cuando vienen mal dadas, si no que da el paso y se enfrenta a lo que le echen, y como es un triunfador pues suele salir airoso del lance.

A mi me gusta la gente que no duda, que arriesga, que toma decisiones sabiendo que puede estar equivocado, pero que peor que una mala decisión es una no-decisión. También me gusta pensar que soy una de esas personas.

Me pregunto qué pasaría si todos viviésemos pensando que hoy es el último día de nuestras vidas. ¿Nos arriésgaríamos más? ¿Nos enfadaríamos menos? ¿Haríamos sólo las cosas de las que nos fuésemos a sentir orgullosos? Seguro que si. Hasta los políticos mejorarían si legislasen pensando que es el último día de sus vidas.

Por eso cuando busco inspiración repaso las líneas del discurso de Jobs. Porque son palabras ciertas, todos moriremos algún día.

Y recordarlo me hace vivir más intensamente.

[BONUS VIDEO] El discurso íntegro (22 minutos)

Gente fina.

Pra quem não conhece esse aí é o Orkut Büyükkökten, o criador do Orkut. Estudei doutorado com ele em Standford. Lá a gente apelidava ele de Leite Gonzalez, ou Buiú para os mais íntimos.

…il motto del  grande Steve Jobs che incita gli studenti della Standford University a seguire i propri sogni e disegnare il proprio futuro.

A lui e’ andata decisamente bene!

This is an interesting collection of short, potent videos and podcasts by successful entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerburg, Larry Page and Michael Dell.

Inspiring and successful entrepreneurs. They’ve been doing this for a few years, and new additions are added regularly.

Link: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/index.htm

The Biggest Successes are Often Bred from Failures

Stanford Business School is one of the most sought school by graduates aspiring for MBA. The school is much popular among Indians seeking MBA from reputed institute and looking for jobs in US. One of the biggest impediment is the high cost of programme. Well here is some good news for Indians seeking admission. The Reliance Industries in collaboration with Stanford Business School has announced scholarship for Indian students.

The salient features of scholarship are:

• The committee started accepting applications this year from 1st April 09 – 1st June 09.
• The Reliance will shortlist 50 applicants. These 50 applicants will receive free GMAT vouchers from Reliance .
• The shortlisted students applications will be forwarded to Standford which will admit up to 5 students to its famous MBA programme.
• The shortlisted students will be attend all expense paid programme from Stanford.
• The only restrictions to students receiving scholarship is that after completing their graduation, they have to come back to India within 2 years of completion of graduation and work for any Indian company, private or public, for two years. Failing to comply with this condition, the student has to refund the amount received via scholarship.

This year the applications were invited from 1st April 09 to 1st June 2009. The application form is simple, asking about academic and professional experiences, financial details and asking to write an essay : “How do you aspire to shape the Future of India”. The essay has a limit of 250 words which is very short considering you have to build up and present an idea. The form also asks to upload a CV briefing about your professional experience.

You can find full details for scholarship here

I hope applicants from India will find this information useful. For any kind of query feel free to ping me.

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Từ một nhân vật tiếng tăm trong giới tài chính Mỹ, tỷ phú Allen Stanford bị cáo buộc lừa đảo 8 tỷ USD và chuẩn bị ra hầu tòa vào cuối tuần này.

Tỷ phú Allen Stanford. Ảnh: AP

Dự kiến giới chức Mỹ sẽ công bố cáo trạng đối với ông Stanford trong ít ngày tới. Cách đây vài ngày, vị tỷ phú này đã trình diện FBI và sẽ ra hầu tòa tại thủ phủ của bang Virginia là thành phố Richmond. Cùng lúc này, một cuộc điều tra lớn cũng được thực hiện nhằm tìm hiểu những hoạt động bị nghi là lừa đảo của Tập đoàn tài chính Standford do ông này làm chủ tịch.

Trước đây, Allen Stanford vốn là một trong những nhân vật nổi tiếng trên thị trường tài chính Mỹ cũng như trong làng cricket thế giới, vì thường xuyên là nhà tài trợ lớn cho các giải đấu. Đầu năm nay, vị tỷ phú sinh trưởng tại bang Texas này bị buộc tội gian lận khi thông báo với đối tác về độ rủi ro của những khoản đầu tư mà họ chung vốn.

Ủy ban chứng khoán Mỹ (SEC) đã lập hồ sơ dân sự cáo buộc Stanford và các cộng sự chủ chốt lừa đảo khoảng 8 tỷ USD, thông qua hoạt động tư vấn đầu tư cho các khách hàng.

Theo đó, họ đã tư vấn cho khách hàng mua chứng chỉ tiền gửi do Ngân hàng Stanford International có trụ sở tại Antigua phát hành. Ngay cả mức lợi nhuận Standford hứa hẹn với khách hàng của dự án tại Miami, Nam Florida cũng không có thật.

Các cơ quan pháp luật chủ yếu đặt nghi vấn vào lãi suất không tưởng mà Ngân hàng Standford International đưa ra đối với người gửi tiền. Một cựu nhân viên ngân hàng này cho biết, Standford đã cung cấp cho khách hàng những số liệu vượt xa kết quả kinh doanh thực tế.

Allen Stanford còn bị cáo buộc đã biển thủ một phần tài sản trong danh mục đầu tư của nhà băng này để mua cổ phần tại một số doanh nghiệp và bất động sản.

Tỷ phú Stanford được biết tới từ những năm 1980 khi bắt đầu giàu lên nhờ kinh doanh bất động sản, rồi chuyển sang tài chính, chứng khoán. Ông này nhập quốc tịch Antigua & Barbuda, một quốc đảo tại vùng Caribê, cách đây 10 năm và từng được phong tước Hiệp sĩ tại đây.

Ngoài Stanford, một quan chức tài chính khác của tập đoàn tài chính Stanford là James M. Davis cũng bị cáo buộc thực hiện một kế hoạch đầu tư siêu lợi nhuận (Ponzi scheme). Trong đó, người đầu tư trước được hưởng lợi từ những khoản tiền do những người đến sau nộp vào. Hiện Davis đã cam kết với giới chức Mỹ sẽ hợp tác trong quá trình điều tra.

Cho đến nay, tỷ phú Stanford vẫn khẳng định mình vô tội.

Ngọc Châu (Theo AP)

Bài viết liên quan

Bí ẩn đằng sau đường dây lừa đảo 8 tỷ USD ở Mỹ

7 sai lầm chết người trong đầu tư

Tổn thất của ngân hàng Mỹ có thể lên đến 600 tỷ USD

Có thể cấm ngân hàng đầu tư chứng khoán, bất động sản

Nguồn: viencanh.com Tỷ phú chứng khoán Stanford sắp hầu tòa

Picture is from there archive

http://ai.stanford.edu/

The Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) is the intellectual home for researchers in the Stanford Computer Science Department whose primary research focus is Artificial Intelligence. The lab is located in the Gates Computer Science Building and the new Clark Center, where 100+ people share the space with 30+ robots

Stanford University (AI Lab) Interview

The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) set up a panel of journalists and investors to talk about the future of news in the 21st century

No point in hiding our face in the sand.

Printed media is in danger: bankruptcy of the Tribune Company, Seattle is now a one-newspaper city (Seattle Times), Boston maybe next (the Globe might also have to stop its printing press leaving it all to the Herald), troubles at Philadelphia and Minneapolis newspapers and many other media outlet around the country have shut or are in turmoil.

With that as a backdrop, the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) asked a panel of journalists and investors to explore some of the hard issues the media is currently facing at the dawn of the 21st century at an event last night.

So what’s the future of printed media? How will journalism and the news business evolve with technology? What are the new opportunities for entrepreneurs? How can high-tech innovators build new business models around news and the barrage of newly unemployed journalists?

For Silicon Valley celebrity Guy Kawasaki, printed newspapers simply have no future.

“I think it’s going to take the death of the organizations, it’s just like car companies, there’s too many car companies. We’re maybe in this perfect storm where death may be accelerated but I think it’s an over-supply issue… I think newspapers are going to die, but wether journalism does, that’s the issue,” added Kawasaki, the chairman of Garage Technology – a venture firm – and Alltop founder.

Journalists and Bloggers: different ethics

The panel also raised the issue of bloggers vs. journalists. Are bloggers really journalists? For tech analyst and columnist Larry Magid, bloggers are just oblivious of conflict of interests pointing to a mommy blogger that is blogging about candies and is on a candy company payroll (Hershey’s).

“I call that a whore and not a journalist… And she’s not even apologizing for it,” said Magid.

Although not all bloggers are oblivious of conflicts of interests, many are and would simply not say anything negative about a company or its products for fear of loosing “access” or even sponsorships.

For acting director of Stanford University’s graduate program in journalism, Ann Grimes what sets journalism apart from other forms of communication is:

“the practice of verification and confirmation and it is key for journalists to understand that and we trained our journalist students at old-fashioned gumshoe watchdog reporting… We teach them standards and ethics we think it’s important for them to understand the role of the press in a democracy.”

Citizen journalism is just not sustainable

I remember just a couple years ago when citizen journalism was all the rage and, in some cases, still is, in France for example with AgoraVox.

But both Grimes and Magid questioned the sustainability and the agenda of the citizen journalists.

“Citizen journalism is hard to sustain… Journalism is a full time job: hanging out at City Hall, developing sources, doing the nitty gritty work that is required to really break stories…,” comments Grimes.

“The thing that concerns me with citizen journalism… is what is the business model to do the kind of really really hard work that traditionally local papers do (like covering City Hall, small businesses…)… and are they doing it honestly, objectively, thoroughly, and are they going to continue doing it after there mood changes,” adds

Lots of experimentations going on to monetize content

Many business models are currently being tried today to monetize content. Grimes cited a few:

1. Subscription
2. Hyper-local models, with deep dives in local businesses
3. Micro-payments
4. Non-profit models for niche sites
5. Big media companies are talking about profesionnal subscriptions with niche and deep verticals that you can get professionals to pay for
6. Devices like the Kindle which open up the way for pay-content

Venture capitalists want either “eyeballs” i.e. “traction” or revenue

But at the end of the day what venture capitalists want to see is either lots of traction or some revenue generation.

“If you’re pitching venture capitalists many of them will tell you that they want to see a proven business model… [Twitter] may be the only company that raises money without a business model but it does open up the possibility that if you are showing them [VCs] eyeballs that are exponentially growing,it’s a good thing… So show them a lot of eyeballs or a lot of revenues, either one will work,” said Kawasaki.

And here are some random comments heard from the panel about journalism: it’s hard and now real-time, and it’s both an honorable profession and a privilege to tell stories and to be read by many.

Ditto.