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For one thing, the shy growth-minded people looked on social situations as challenges.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
there are three kinds of people—givers, takers, and matchers—and on research findings that the most successful people are likely to be givers.
Zoe Chance • Influence Is Your Superpower: How to Get What You What Without Compromising Who You Are
Systematic studies indicate that two-year-olds begin to show genuine empathy toward other people for the first time. Even younger babies will become upset in response to the distress of others (we all know the disturbing way the baby will suddenly begin to howl when a marital argument starts). But only two-year-olds provide comfort. They don’t just
... See moreAlison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, • The Scientist In The Crib: Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn
Annual Review of Neuroscience 32 (2009): 289–313. For recent thinking on the amygdala, see: FeldmanHall, Oriel, Paul Glimcher, Augustus L. Baker, NYU PROSPEC Collaboration, and Elizabeth A. Phelps.
Dacher Keltner • Awe: The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder
To do that effectively, she helps people ask and answer the question, Is the person I’m interacting with trying to hurt me? Or do they actually mean well?
Chris Schembra • Gratitude Through Hard Times: Finding Positive Benefits Through Our Darkest Hours
become available. He was making a valuable point: when we observe people acting in ways that seem odd, we should first examine the possibility that they have a good reason to do what they do. Psychological
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Practice Going First GABBY: “I always say that I’ll go first. . . . That means if I’m checking out at the store, I’ll say hello first. If I’m coming across somebody and make eye contact, I’ll smile first. [I wish] people would experiment with that in their life a little bit: Be first, because—not all times, but most times—it comes in your favor. Th
... See moreTimothy Ferriss • Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Darwin reasoned that the blush is a manifestation of our moral beauty, signaling that we care about the opinions of others; studies 130 years later would find that others’ blushes trigger forgiveness and reconciliation in observers—a millisecond pattern of behavior joining perpetrator and victim in a transformative dynamic at the heart of restorati
... See moreDacher Keltner • Awe
Of the many emerging descriptions of our social brain, for me the simplest and most elegant is the highly regarded Social Baseline Theory of Lane Beckes and James A. Coan, two researchers at the University of Virginia.