Know thyself - it's advice as old as the hills, and it's the core of authenticity. When you know yourself, you are comfortable with ...

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one’s feelings by controlling one’s thoughts – or by changi...

Excessive and unproductive meetings can lower job satisfaction for several reasons. First, they generally increase fatigue as well as our su...

Name It to Tame It is a technique that involves noticing and labeling emotions as they’re happening. Identifying an intense emotion (“naming...

You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you. Things can’t shape our decisions by themselves. Marcus Aurelius Me...

Concentrate every minute like a Roman – like a man – on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willing...

THE BETTER ARGUMENTS PROJECT—a civic initiative founded by Allstate, The Aspen Institute, Facing History and Ourselves, and the Bezos Family...

When [Head Coach Monty] Williams was asked how he has evolved since New Orleans, he didn’t shy away from being honest. “I thought I had the ...

Team members need a keen awareness of the difference between emotion and passion.  “You don’t want an emotional team; you want a pass...

An Australian study has found that about one in five corporate executives are psychopaths – roughly the same rate as among prisoners.  ...

The ability to engage in crucial conversations, absent from the pervasive authoritarian leadership style of the past, is now recognized a...

Perhaps the most telling testimony to the healing potency of emotional ties is a Swedish study published in 1993. All the men living in t...

Saying your boss makes you feel bad about yourself gives that person power over your emotions. And declaring you have to go to your mothe...

These days, it’s practically meaningless and way too easy to say something “sucks,” or (much) worse. And the rough waters in which we a...

Anger can be a powerful and positive motivator, useful to move us toward loving action to right wrongs and correct injustice – but it a...

Because the emotion of anger comes on so suddenly, often we are caught up in a verbal or physical response to the anger before ever consc...

Gardner’s influential 1983 book Frames of Mind was a manifesto refuting the IQ view; it proposed that there was not just one, monolithic...

In a sense we have two brains, two minds – and two different kinds of intelligence: rational and emotional. How we do in life is determin...

Feeling entirely at home with persons of high or lowly rank [ George Albert Smith ] rejected the idea of class distinctions. When his fri...

There are different levels of listening. Not every conversation requires the highest levels of listening, but many conversations would be...