Sublime

When you diminish your feelings, you diminish your aliveness. Expanding your capacity for intimacy, love, and connection is one of life’s most precious gifts and stimulates neurogenesis, for the brain is wired for emotional relationships. With negative relationships and chronic feelings of stress and depression this capacity shrinks—and so does neu

Acceptance is in the service of valued living.

To her colleagues she seemed bad tempered, aggressive and impulsive. To cap it all, she was becoming inefficient, forgetful and devoid of creativity. Her private life – such as it was – was equally chaotic. Her second husband had recently left her, and her seventeen-year-old daughter was a ‘disappointment’ because of her devotion

They had learned helplessness.

Speaking on Harvard Business Review’s IdeaCast about a book he coauthored with Sheryl Sandberg—Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy—Adam Grant, a renowned organizational psychologist and Wharton professor, describes the business incentives of group support. Studies show that when companies provided assistance programs th

These managers are more committed to their employees’ development, and to their own.

All of us have elements of both—we’re all a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets.

disorientation: keeping us from appreciating the full range of our life choices that are here, right in front of us.

Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.