“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” Ben Franklin PAF 101 Module 2, Lecture 1 “Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” Ben Franklin

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

Nicole Danielle Osborne ndosborn@syr.edu

Katie Hoole <kathoole@gmail.com>

Need some community service hours? What: Volunteers needed for the annual Firefighter Cancer Foundation fundraiser When: Sunday, September 18th Where: Dinosaur BBQ Time: 1-6 *If you’re interested please email Amanda at acrussel@syr.edu *Failure to show up if you confirm to go results in a loss of 5 points on Module 2 *COUNTS AS YOUR 5 HOURS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE

Lunch with Coplin Monday and Wednesday 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

Extra Credit Opportunities! Receive extra credit throughout the semester by attending any speech related to Public Policy. You may receive up to 3 points per event that you attend: 5 total events x 3 points per event = 15 possible points *These 15 points can make the difference between an A- or a B+

How extra credit works! After the event, fill out the Extra Credit Speaker Evaluation Form located under the Extra Credit tab on the PAF website: https://paf101.expressions.syr.edu/extra-credit/ After you complete the on-line form within 48 hours, I will send you an email letting you know that I received it and the total amount of points you have received. If you do not receive an email within 48 hours, please contact Alison Eardley at aeeardle@syr.edu to ensure that you get points!

Other Extra Credit Opportunities: Blood Drives Donating blood also counts for 3 extra credit points. To receive the credit you MUST: Submit a separate blood drive form found under the Extra Credit tab on the PAF 101 website within 48 hours of the blood drive. *You may only receive credit for donating blood twice* *If you are denied because of health problems, you may still complete the form and receive extra credit, however, you may only do this once* *Lying about giving blood counts as plagiarism and you will fail the course*

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Do you know of other Extra Credit Opportunities? If you are aware of any future presentations related to public policy that the class could attend, please contact Professor Coplin! wdcoplin@maxwell.syr.edu

Competition Points Winners Losers Group # Points 3 7 5 6 2 4 1 8 9 10 12 14 16 17 18 19 20 15 11 13 Winners Losers As of 9/16/16

Dale Carnegie https://youtu.be/O48JaCuiH34

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.

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…

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

Famous DC Users http://www. bloomberg Dale Carnegie Training that shaped the lives of such people as Warren Buffett, Johnny Cash, and Emeril Lagasse, can claim an additional ardent disciple: Charles Manson.

What is Dale Carnegie? It depends A tool A way of life

Introduction to Module Two Exercises for Chapters 2-4 Due 10/7 One of Seven Topic Areas from Module 1  Take notes-remember that exercise 1.4 is good for the topic for Module 2.  Not Too Specific

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 geographic area

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

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

One Way to Fail PAF 101 NEVER define a problem as some policy you don’t like Always start with some condition in society that needs to be ameliorated as the problem. Starting with the problem rather than the solution is the essence of ???

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

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 rates) Be sure to indicate geographic location

Crime Too many arrests for homicides, drug sales, theft in the City of Syracuse DWI/DUI arrest rate is too high Too many incidents of police brutality

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

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

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 $30 a month of children in NYS who make as much as $60,000 a year is a fact and raises questions about health care coverage

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

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

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

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…

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

Dealing with “Life is an Aggregation Problem” Canada Goose– a beautiful bird versus a flying crap machine Notes Who can give me an example? Compare Liberal Arts from the brochures and the words of the Dean to your actual experiences. Public Policy Analysts must talk to stakeholders, players, and experts.

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.

Be Both Kinds of a Person Correctly decide when to be: A Tree Person A Forest Person

“Everything is B.S.” Quote #2 This is reality; learn to deal with it. Hint: Ask yourself why do cows defecate and what are the consequences?

Example: The Magna Carta QUOTATION OF THE DAY "The myth of Magna Carta lies at the whole origin of our perception of who we are as an English-speaking people, freedom-loving people who've lived with a degree of liberty and under a rule of law for 800 years. It's a load of tripe, of course. But it's a very useful myth." NICHOLAS VINCENT, a professor at the University of East Anglia and author of a book on the document.

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

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

Antidote to BS Excesses Avoid groupthink and too much cognitive dissonance Use analysis rather than emotion Be ???? ??? –pragmatic

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

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. When responding, keep the thread Email Advice

Procrastination -Everyone stands to end procrastination -lead group in declaration “My name is ________ and I am a procrastinator.”

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

Peer Pressure is EVIL There is a solution to your problem

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

For Next Class Read Chapter 2 for next class Bring a copy of Module 2 to follow along with the librarian lecture New seats