In this 2017 Tedx Talk (13:13) from Toronto, Canada, "TV star, Catherine Reitman, shares her lessons learned in seeing ideas through to their completion, not allowing others to reshape your vision, and a little bit about family dynamics." Topics include growing outside your comfort zone and making the choices to challenge yourself.
At the time of this review, A Guide to Believing in Yourself had been viewed over two (2) million times.
Type of Material:
Presentation (YouTube Video)
Recommended Uses:
The video can be attached to a course website and assigned for out-of-class viewing with subsequent in-class discussion. Its brevity also lends it to in-class viewing. In addition, it can be used as part of an assignment on taking risks, how personality can help some succeed but keep others from taking chance, how we need to take risks to meet our goals, or a discussion of imposter syndrome.
Technical Requirements:
The video can be accessed using any major Internet browser (e.g., Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox).
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Life is full of choices. This TEDx Talk presentation focuses on making those hard choices that could lead to success or could fail, but we will not know unless we try.
This video can be used to illustrate a wide variety of psychology concepts, depending upon how the talk is embedded in any given psychology course. Examples include self-confidence, self-efficacy, gender & career, risk-taking & career, imposter syndrome, work-life balance or living an integrated life.
Target Student Population:
High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Professional
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
None.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
Everyone should be able to relate to the choice: do you choose to try and risk failing? Or do you choose not to try because of a fear of failure?
This motivational speech particularly relates to imposter syndrome (where we may avoid challenge) and generally illustrates a wide variety of psychology concepts (e.g., self-confidence, self-efficacy, gender & career, risk-taking & career, work-life balance or living an integrated life). The content is compellingly presented in that Reitman shares her experience in very personal, candid terms (even tearing up at one point in the talk). This is relatable (and much of the commentary posted in response to the talk confirms this point).
Concerns:
Instructors will want to provide background readings or lectures that connect the content of the Tedx Talk with psychology concepts of interest.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
The talk does a very good job of illustrating one professional woman's journey toward believing in her ideas and finding the will and the voice to advocate for them. While most will not suddenly change their behavior from watching one talk, reflection on this talk will likely have an impact on at least some of our choices.
Concerns:
Instructors who use the video in class will want to embed it within a broader context that includes specific learning goals for the psychology concepts covered in the course. So for example, an I/O psychology course might focus on career-related elements of the talk while a general psychology course might embed the talk in a discussion of self-esteem.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
As is the case with all TED talks, this is a high-quality, professionally produced video with closed captioning.
Concerns:
None.
Creative Commons:
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