The hijacking occurs in an instant, triggering this reaction crucial moments before the neocortex, the thinking brain, has had a chance to glimpse fully what is happening, let alone decide if it is a...
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...
Psychologists use the rather ponderous term metacognition to refer to an awareness of thought process, and metamood to mean awareness of one’s own emotions. I prefer the term self-awareness, in the se...
Mindfulness helps especially for those of us for whom every setback, hurt or dissapointment creates endless cascades of rumination
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...
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...
Hay muchos estudios que corroboran la persistencia de la agresividad infantil en chicos como Jimmy.11 Como ya hemos visto en otro lugar, los padres de los niños agresivos suelen alternar la indiferenc...
Good work requires enthusiasm, ethics, and excellence.
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...
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...
Carol Gilligan points to as a key disparity between the sexes: boys take pride in a lone, tough-minded independence and autonomy, while girls see themselves as part of a web of connectedness. Thus boy...
And that is the problem: academic intelligence offers virtually no preparation for the turmoil—or opportunity—life’s vicissitudes bring. Yet even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, presti...
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...
Tienen suficiente tiempo libre para pensar. Ese es el entorno más favorable para incubar la creatividad. 5.
There was one meta ability that emerged: self-awareness. Chief executives need this ability to assess their own strengths and weaknesses, and so surround themselves with a team of people whose strengt...
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.
Como dicen los japoneses: «Todos somos más inteligentes que cualquiera de nosotros aisladamente considerado».
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...
We're being judged by a new yardstick: not just by how smart we are, or by our training and expertise, but also by how well we handle ourselves and each other.