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When emotionally upset, people cannot remember, attend, learn, or make decisions clearly. As one management consultant put it, “Stress makes people stupid.”
Daniel Goleman • Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence
The sooner you can hone your ability to spot safety,
Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves • Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Your octopus gets tired if it has to keep switching its focus from one set of brain-links to a completely different one. So try to avoid distraction and task switching.
Barbara Oakley PhD • Learning How to Learn: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying; A Guide for Kids and Teens
Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn’t mean that others can’t do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
David Barlow. He was (and still is) one of the premiere anxiety researchers on the planet.
Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
Sometimes the issues may be so complicated, the time so tight, the distractions so intrusive, the emotional arousal so strong, or the mental fatigue so deep that we are in no cognitive condition to operate mindfully. Important topic or not, we have to take the shortcut. Perhaps nowhere is this last point driven home more dramatically than in the
... See moreRobert B. Cialdini • Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion
Obviously, a company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
competitive stress results in exces- sive arousal, which leads to disruption of thought, lack of concentration, confu- sion, and excessive body tension. These and other responses to stress result in the poor performance. Biofeedback intervention should theoretically result in decreased muscle tension, autonomic responses, and self-report state
... See moreIn a complex environment, experts are up against two main difficulties. The first is the fallibility of human memory and attention, especially when it comes to mundane, routine matters that are easily overlooked under the strain of more pressing events. (When you’ve got a patient throwing up and an upset family member asking you what’s going on, it
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