PAF 101

1. Module 2, Lecture 1 PAF101 “Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”Ben Franklin

2. Class Agenda • Announcements • Dale Carnegie Presentations • Selecting a topic –Ex.2.6 • Quick Intro. to Ch. 3 • Exercise 3.1 • Fighting Procrastination • Assignment for Next Class

3. Lunch with Coplin • Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 11 to 11:30 • Email me to determine which day and meet me at 11 in 102 Maxwell • We can talk about anything • We pay for our own lunches

4. Career Week: February 10-13th • Tuesday February 11th • University Career Fair – 12:30-4:30pm in Goldstein Auditorium • Diversity in the Workplace – 6:00-8:00pm in Panasci Lounge

6. Care about the environment? Want to know how much of YOUR $$$ SU invests in big oil? Want to get involved in a global movement on your own campus? SU Divestment Meetings Friday at 1 Smith Hall rm. 003 Like us on Facebook Follow us at @DivestSUESF

7. The 5 Hour Community Service Requirement • Must be off-campus, but within Onondaga County • Can be at more than one location • Can be paid OR unpaid (i.e. Literacy Corps) • MUST be for a government or a non-profit agency

8. Prospective Community Service Form • DUE FEBRUARY 12th, 2014 BY 12:45PM • If your TA receives your email after 12:45pm, you will lose 5 points. • This is not a binding commitment, it is just a way to get you thinking about where you would like to volunteer.

9. Competition Points Winners Losers Competition Points as of 1/31/2014

10. Meet Dale. Sup. • Dale Carnegie was born in Missouri and was raised by poor farmers. • By the end of his life, he had amassed a fortune and is called the founder of self-help. • His book How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold over 10 million copies.

11. Why should YOU know him? • His principles will allow you to gain knowledge about successfully interacting with others. • You will make a lot of friends and a lot less enemies. • Learning DC will change the way you view yourself, and in turn, help the way others view you. • His principles will allow you to succeed in life…

12. Dale Carnegie Presentations • TA's present how they used DC to fix a problem they faced. • One group will be called on to say what DC principle the TA used.

13. Dale Carnegie Principles • Don't criticize, condemn or complain. • Give honest and sincere appreciation. • Arouse the other person an eager want. • Become genuinely interested in other people. • Remember that a man's name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in any language. • Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. • Talk in the terms of the other man’s interest. • Make the other person feel important and do it sincerely. • Avoid arguments. • Never tell someone they are wrong • If you're wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically. • Begin in a friendly way. • Start with questions the other person will answer yes to. • Let the other person do the talking. • Let the other person feel the idea is his/hers. • Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view. • Sympathize with the other person. • Appeal to noble motives. • Dramatize your ideas. • Throw down a challenge. • Begin with praise and honest appreciation. • Call attention to other people's mistakes indirectly. • Talk about your own mistakes first. • Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. • Let the other person save face. • Praise every improvement. • Give them a fine reputation to live up to • Encourage them by making their faults seem easy to correct. • Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest.

14. Introduction to Module Two Exercises for Chapters 2-4 Due 2/21 One of Seven Topic Areas from Module 1  Not Too Specific 

15. Introduction to Module Two Chapter 2: Use the library (guest lecture on Monday) Chapter 3: Find players to interview Chapter 4: Design a survey on a societal problem or policy in a specified geographical area

16. Getting specific is hard to do • Exercise 2.6 requires you to select a societal problem WITHIN YOUR TOPIC • Exercise 3.1 requires you to choose a local geographic area: Syracuse, Onondaga County, or your home town or county

17. Gun Related Crimes Gun Control For Exercise 2.6: A Societal Problem is Not A Policy You Don’t Like

18. Problem Selection Ex. 2.6 • Choose a specific societal problem within the one of the following topics: • Crime • Education • Environment • Health • Housing • Jobs and Economic Development • Poverty

19. Focus on Specific Problems for 2.6 • A problem is an undesirable societal condition that is at an unacceptable level • Either too low (such as graduation rates) or too high (such as unemployment) • Be sure to indicate geographic location

20. Crime • Too many arrests for homicides, drug sales, theft • DWI/DUI arrest rate is too high • Too many incidents of police brutality

21. Environment • Recycling levels are too low • Air Pollution is too high • Carbon footprint is too big

22. Education • High school graduation rates are too low • Too many students fail state-mandated tests • Students are late too frequently

23. Health • Too many adolescent pregnancies • STD rates are too high • The nursing shortage is too great • Too many people don’t have access to health care

24. Housing • Too many vacant lots • Not enough low income housing • Too many mortgage defaults in the City of Syracuse

25. Jobs/Economic Development • Loss of jobs is too high • Not enough workers with the necessary skills • Too many business bankruptcies

26. Poverty • Too many food pantries run out of food • Too many people live under the poverty line • Too much welfare fraud

27. Focusing on a Societal Problem • Very difficult because “to generalize is to be an idiot.” -Wm. Blake, 18th century poet • What’s wrong about this quote? • Which leads to the two most important quotes of the course…

28. Quote #1 “Life is an aggregation problem”

29. Dealing with “Life is an Aggregation Problem” Canada Geese – a beautiful bird versus a flying crap machine

30. When you can take a 3 page paper and: • Reduce it to 1 page • Reduce that to 3 paragraphs • Reduce that to 1 paragraph • Reduce that to 1 sentence, you will understand that life is an aggregation problem. (37signals.com)

31. Be Both Kinds of a Person Correctly decide when to be • A Tree Person • A Forest Person

32. Quote #2 “Everything is B.S.” When is this a good or a bad thing?

33. BS is the fertilizer of life • Bad • Ignores the truth • Too much creates more harm than good like wrong decisions and tyranny • Good • It serves as play • It drives business and politics • It drives do-gooders • One person’s truth is another person’s BS

34. Create Respect for BS • BS is as essential to the human condition as air is to human life • Respect for BS restores faith to its proper place

35. Exercise 3.1 and 4.1-5 • More on this next week • Get Exercises 2.1-2.6 done in the next seven days.

36. How to Write an Effective E-mail • Proofread and proofread again • No fancy typefaces or background crap • Do not open with “Hey” • If you do not get a response within a week, call • As soon as you get a response, send a thank you or reply. • Email Advice

37. Procrastination

38. What are the causes of procrastination ?  • Fear of failure • Fear of success • Screwed-up priorities • Thinks it is more efficient • and …

39. Peer Pressure is EVIL

40. The Ultimate Vaccine If your friends told you to stick your head in a bucket of $#!+, would you?

41. For Next Class • Read Chapter 2 for next class • Bring a copy of Module 2 to follow librarian lecture • New seats http://classes.maxwell.syr.edu/paf101