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Positively Deviant

This post was originally published at https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/positively-deviant.

Hi everyone,

I’m moving over the next couple of days, ill, and second guessing both of the two things I tried to write for this week, so I’m giving myself permission to phone it in with a discussion thread this week.

There’s a really useful concept called Positive Deviance, which is the idea that you can improve group outcomes by looking for unusual things some people do that seem to help them and figuring out how to spread those throughout the group.

So, this is a thread for doing positive deviance - comment to share some things you’ve been doing recently that have been life improving but that you don’t think are widely shared. Pandemic coping strategies especially welcome.