Laura Pike Seeley

In a study published by the journal Nature in July, a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, Stanford University, University of Rochester, and Google Empathy Lab found a way to do that. The researchers used a 30-minute online training session to teach participants about a mindset that sees stress as an opportunity to learn and... See more

Nowadays, whenever I feel scared in the face of a decision and yearn for the safety of an optimizing formula, I try to remind myself that there’s another way of feeling safe. It’s not about perfection, about invulnerability, about control. It’s about leaning into the fact that we are imperfect and vulnerable creatures and that even when we’re... See more

How many of these things we produce is not productivity. How you spend your life is.

There are those who fear that modern knowledge workers are losing the ability to "go deep" and achieve a state of flow, an erosion that undermines true learning, innovation and professional success.

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Contemporary research has shown that children do pretty well when offered autonomy. 

Many 80s parents practiced what University of Pennsylvania sociologist Annette Lareau, PhD, has come to call “accomplishment of natural growth.” That’s the idea that parents are there to provide kids with food, safety and love, in order to facilitate a self-directed... See more

Intranets are most commonly perceived as a means to share items of interest with employees. The objective in this case is to facilitate access to helpful news, articles, documents and tools for employees.