Las ideas creativas son como un capullo delicado: hay que mimarlas para que florezcan.
If you want to make a real difference for psychiatric illness like depression, you have to do something before the kids get sick in the first place, Kovacs commented. The real solution is a psychologi...
From the vantage point of the brain, doing well in school and at work involves one and the same state, the brain’s sweet spot for performance. The biology of anxiety casts us out of that zone for exce...
Es la combinación entre el talento razonable y la capacidad de perseverar ante el fracaso lo que conduce al éxito.
Conta um velho conto japonês que, certo dia, um aguerrido samurai desafiou um mestre de zen a explicar-lhe os conceitos de Céu e Inferno. Mas o monge respondeu-lhe, trocista: Não passas de um estúpido...
But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we should have !
A Persian fairy tale tells of the Three Princes of Serendip, who were always making discoveries, by accident and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of.7 Creativity in the wild operates much li...
«La mente creativa es un don sagrado y la mente racional un sirviente fiel –dijo, en cierta ocasión, Albert Einstein–. Por ello resulta muy curioso que hayamos creado una sociedad que, olvidando el do...
Elementos básicos da inteligência emocional: aprender a reconhecer, controlar e canalizar os sentimentos; ter empatia e lidar com os sentimentos que afloram em seus relacionamentos.
You need the negative focus to survive, but a positive one to thrive,
When people feel good, they work at their best. Feeling good lubricates mental efficiency, making people better at understanding information and using decision rules in complex judgments, as well as m...
What typically escalates to conflict begins, as Vargo puts it, with not communicating, making assumptions, and jumping to conclusions, sending a ‘hard’ message in ways that make it tough for people to...
What can we change that will help our children fare better in life?
This harkens back to Freud’s famous question, What does woman want? As Epstein answers, She wants a partner who cares what she wants.
The emotional/rational dichotomy approximates the folk distinction between heart and head; knowing something is right in your heart is a different order of conviction - somehow a deeper kind of certai...
Moral sentiments derive from empathy, and moral reflections take thinking and focus. One cost of the frenetic stream of distractions we face today, some fear, is an erosion of empathy and compassion.1...
La gente tiende a ser muy eficiente en la gestión de las relaciones cuando logra comprender y controlar sus emociones y demostrar empatía por las de los demás.
It’s the most important relationships in your life, the people you see day in and day out, that seem to be crucial for your health. And the more significant the relationship is in your life, the more...
It is in moments such as these—when impulsive feeling overrides the rational—that the newly discovered role for the amygdala is pivotal. Incoming signals from the senses let the amygdala scan every ex...
In fact, people who are extremely adept at mental tasks that demand cognitive control and a roaring working memory—like solving complex math problems—can struggle with creative insights if they have t...