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Emotion: Who Needs to Know About it Anyway?
What is your current state of mind? Emotions are a tricky subject for me. For much of my life, I have believed what many people have thought about the nature of emotion: that emotions require too much...
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Don’t Wait Forever
Plaster casts of famous tombs at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London There is nothing like a brush with mortality to strike a chord of urgency in a person. What do I mean by urgency? I mean the...
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Keeping Your Brain Razor Sharp
The brain and gut are intrinsically related. A happy mind is a happy gut and a happy gut is a happy mind. My great aunt grew up on a diet of fatty meat, dumplings and potatoes. Vegetables were usually...
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What a Scissors Attack Taught Me About Brain Energy
Death by scissors… almost. Imagine a man with arms like an albatross swinging a pair of scissors at you, then cornering you in a room with his wheelchair. That happened to me once when I was working...
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Understanding Emotions is Essential to Brain-Based Learning Strategies
I just attended the 37th Learning and the Brain Conference, in San Francisco. This my 3rd such conference, and as usual, the speakers did not disappoint. The theme was using brain science to build...
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Get Your Priorities Straight
Did you know…leaders are great at setting goals, but seldom set priorities. Another way to put this is that leaders far too frequently bite off more than they, or those they lead, can chew. Lack of...
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The Logistics of Leadership: Beware of Your Blind Spots
Strengths-based leadership gets you heading in the right direction. Blind spots will trip you up! Organizations, now more than ever, are facing complex and unpredictable competitive landscape, one that...
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The Seesaw of Social and Non-Social Thinking in Leadership
According to Dr. Matthew Lieberman, our social and non-social brains have a see saw rather than a facilitative relationship with each other. You have a see saw in your brain. Thinking socially and...
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Unresponsiveness is a Relationship Killer
Our ancestors had no hope of survival in the absence of banding with others. It seems that studying the caveman, or our ancestral heritage, has shed light on how ill-equipped we are to handle 21st...
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Emotional Intelligence and Volkswagen
Emotional intelligence is another way of describing and/or measuring habits of the mind. Emotional intelligence skills can be learned by anyone willing to first become self-aware then set goals to...
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Self-Awareness is Other Awareness
“Self-awareness becomes other awareness when we realize the broader impact of our behavior.” Everyday we encounter people who could use a dose of self-awareness. If we are honest with ourselves, we...
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Make 2018 the Year of Improved Sleep
“Scientists have discovered a revolutionary new treatment that makes you live longer. It enhances your memory, makes you more attractive. It keeps you slim and lowers food cravings. It protects you...
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Versatility in the 21st Century
Versatility has always been a desirable personal attribute. The ability to flex and adapt allows individuals to land on their feet like a cat being able to course correct when falling from a high...
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Self-Awareness is Other Awareness
“Self-awareness becomes other awareness when we realize the broader impact of our behavior.” Everyday we encounter people who could use a dose of self-awareness. If we are honest with ourselves, we...
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Make 2018 the Year of Improved Sleep
“Scientists have discovered a revolutionary new treatment that makes you live longer. It enhances your memory, makes you more attractive. It keeps you slim and lowers food cravings. It protects you...
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Versatility in the 21st Century
Versatility has always been a desirable personal attribute. The ability to flex and adapt allows individuals to land on their feet like a cat being able to course correct when falling from a high...
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Is Technology the Only Race that Matters?
Technology is the rabbit on the track that is making the greyhounds run faster and faster. It doesn’t take long for an operating system to be replaced by something better or an app to updated....
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