El detonante universal del enfado sea la sensación de hallarse amenazado.
El descontrol emocional obstaculiza la labor del intelecto
Writing about the coming information-rich world, he warned that what information consumes is the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.9 PART I THE...
Whenever you notice your mind wandering, a fundamental instruction in meditation advises, bring your mind back to its point of focus. The operative phrase here is whenever you notice. As our mind drif...
What allows people to have such a strong inner compass, a North Star that steers them through life according to the dictates of their deepest values and purposes?
We typically avoid situations or fields in which we fear we might fail; even if we actually have the abilities it takes to succeed at a job, if we lack the belief that we can handle its challenges, we...
We transmit and catch moods from each other in what amounts to a subterranean economy of the psyche in which some encounters are toxic, some nourishing.
Una persona muy autoconsciente sabe adónde se dirige y por qué; así, por ejemplo, se mostrará firme al rechazar una oferta laboral que resulte tentadora desde un punto de vista económico pero no encaj...
Todo padre sabe que, desde el momento de su nacimiento, un niño es tranquilo y plácido o, en cambio, irritable y difícil.
Todas las emociones son, en esencia, impulsos que nos llevan a actuar, programas de reacción automática con los que nos ha dotado la evolución.
The worst period I ever went through at work, a friend confides, was when the company was restructuring and people were being ‘disappeared’ daily, followed by lying memos that they were leaving ‘for p...
The neocortex is the seat of thought; it contains the centers that put together and comprehend what the senses perceive. It adds to a feeling what we think about it—and allows us to have feelings abou...
The neocortex allows for the subtlety and complexity of emotional life, such as the ability to have feelings about our feelings.
The longer someone ignores an email before finally responding, the more relative social power that person has. Map these response times across an entire organization and you get a remarkably accurate...
The goal of attunement is not simply continual meshing, with an utter entrainment of every thought and feeling; it also includes giving each other space to be alone as needed. This cycle of connectedn...
Tania Singer, director of the social neuroscience department at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, has studied empathy and self-awareness
She had moved to Los Angeles from the Midwest, lured by a job with a publisher. But the publisher was bought by another soon after, and she was left without a job. Turning to freelance writing, an err...
Según el estudio de Yale, el ánimo influye en la eficiencia de los trabajadores; si es positivo fomenta la cooperación, la imparcialidad y el rendimiento laboral.
Según Huxley, el eterno ahora alberga todo lo que necesitamos para vivir una vida plena. Pero la capacidad humana de pensar en cosas que no están presentes en el ahora eterno es un requisito para todo...
Researchers find that the prevalence of obesity in the United States over the last thirty years tracks the explosion of computers and tech gadgets in people’s lives—and suspect this is no accidental c...