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ATTITUDES ARE CONTAGIOUS: IS YOURS WORTH CATCHING?

The importance of attitude: How changing your attitude will change your life.

The importance of your attitude on learning



Attitude problem?: Victor Kuppers at TEDxAndorralaVella
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."
Even though in Spanish I really wanted you to listen to what he has to say: Never ever will we be able to change the hand we are dealt but we can ALWAYS choose our attitude, our ultimate freedom.



Ordinary Day song by Great Big Sea (a group from Newfoundland, "Terranova")
I'm free to be whatever I, whatever I choose song by Oasis
Unwritten song by Natasha Bedingfield

"That's the attitude!", Ellen says to Michael J. Fox who talks about staying positive through Parkinson's, a disease he has been suffering from for 20 years but which hasn't prevented him from appearing on tv shows. One of them is The Good Wife in which he plays the role of Louis Canning, an opposing counsel whom Alicia Florrick faces in court many times. He has tardive dyskinesia, a condition which gives him visual tremors and which he has no shame about using to his advantage to elicit sympathy in court.



The Good Wife: Beware, binge watching alert!

Michael J. Fox, my memory lane:





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