The classical literature in psychology describes the relationship between anxiety and performance, including mental performance, in terms of an upside-down U. At the peak of the inverted U is the opti...
Social rejection—or fearing it—is one of the most common causes of anxiety. Feelings of inclusion depend not so much on having frequent social contacts or numerous relationships as on how accepted we...
Our sense of well-being depends to some extent on others regarding us as a You; our yearning for connection is a primal human need, minimally for a cushion for survival. Today the neural echo of that...
Los niños de hoy en día crecen en una nueva realidad, una realidad en la que están muy desconectados de sus semejantes y mucho más conectados que nunca, por el contrario, con las máquinas, una situaci...
It’s not the highs along the way that matter. It’s who you become.
It takes a panoramic attention to appreciate system-level interactions,
In the brain’s architecture, the amygdala is poised something like an alarm company where operators stand ready to send out emergency calls to the fire department, police, and a neighbor whenever a ho...
In a complex world where almost everyone has access to the same information, new value arises from the original synthesis, from putting ideas together in novel ways, and from smart questions that open...
Forthrightness is the brain’s default response: our neural wiring transmits our every minor mood onto the muscles of our face, making our feelings instantly visible. The display of emotion is automati...
For leaders to get results they need all three kinds of focus. Inner focus attunes us to our intuitions, guiding values, and better decisions. Other focus smooths our connections to the people in our...
Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and proofs all their own.
Existe una clara evidencia de que las personas emocionalmente desarrolladas, es decir, las personas que gobiernan adecuadamente sus sentimientos, y asimismo saben interpretar y relacionarse efectivame...
El pensamiento profundo requiere de una mente concentrada.
But these most visible leadership abilities build not just on empathy, but also on managing ourselves and sensing how what we do affects others.
Bereavement is useful; full-blown depression is not. William Styron renders an eloquent description of the many dreadful manifestations of the disease, among them self-hatred, a sense of worthlessness...
As poet Charles Bukowski put it, It's not the big things that send us to the madhouse, not the loss of a love, but the shoelace that breaks when there's no time left.
As Freud observed, Mortals can keep no secret. If their lips are silent, they gossip with their fingertips; betrayal forces its way through every pore.
Although you set your goal of getting a B, when your first exam score, worth 30% of your final grade is returned, you have received a D. It is now one week after you have learned about the D grade. Wh...
A series of studies by Marian Radke-Yarrow and Carolyn Zahn-Waxler at the National Institute of Mental Health showed that a large part of this difference in empathic concern had to do with how parents...
A mente intuitiva é um dom sagrado e a mente racional, um servo fiel, disse um dia Albert Einstein. Criamos uma sociedade que honra o servo e se esqueceu do dom.12