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• Caroline Myss on healing

  
  Talent Development Resources Talent Development Resources the psychology of creativity, personal growth, gifted/talented adults — Authority: 118
  Author Caroline Myss says that healing is not only physical – “it is also a mystical phenomenon that transcends reason.” She “instructs readers to move beyond the dilemma of needing to find logical reasons for why an illness has developed and instead get on with the task of personal transformation.” ...
  10 hours ago

• Can you stand up in front of 1000 people and state your personal elevator speech in 20 seconds?

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 435
  A personal elevator speech When I taught at the University of Canterbury, my colleague Peter Cammock, would ask our class of 900 or so students, whether they could stand up and state their life purpose in a 20 second elevator speech. Elevator speeches are hard to write at the best of times. When they are yours too, ...
  20 hours ago

• Happiness, positive thinking, nonsense?

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 435
  Are you confused by the nature of happiness?  Or the usefulness of positive thinking. This picture from Roy Goodman explains the essence of happiness. Happiness by Roy Goodman The idea is to live happily.  Period. Being successful or getting somewhere doesn’t make you happy.  Nor does being happy get you ...
  1 day ago

• Pull people together? No? Is the problem that you don’t believe in you?

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 435
  Down-to-earth expressions I heard the expression “pull people together” today for the first time in a long time.  General Colin Powell used it ~ and he is a very down-to-earth man. Down-to-earth actions But how many of us have any ability to “pull people together”?  When was the last time that you ...
  2 days ago

• Dont Worry, Be Happy! The Surprising Benefits of Optimism

  
  Prescriptions for Life — Authority: 99
  How do you view the difficult events that show up in your life, or happen in the world around you? Im open about the fact that I was very depressed during my residency, and even before that, it often seemed that lifes events were relentlessly unfair. Yet something has happened to me over the last few years, perhaps as ...
  3 days ago

• Happiness getting confused with the pleasure of meanness

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 435
  Image by Sokwanele – Zimbabwe via Flickr I’ve just read this on  a university chat board: If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich? Sadly, our first impulse is to try to answer the question. Then we do a double take.  Are we trying to sell happiness?  Aren’t ...
  3 days ago

• Barbara Ehrenreich on the Sources of and Problems with Dispositionism

  
  The Situationist — Authority: 514
  From GRITtv: “Barbara Ehrenreich’s new book looks at the downside of looking on the bright side, which she says has undermined America.” * * * * * * * * * To read a sample of related Situationist posts, see “ Barbara Ehrenreich – a Situationist ,” “ The Motivated Situation of ...
  5 days ago

• Dacher Keltner on positive emotion and living a good life

  
  Talent Development Resources Talent Development Resources the psychology of creativity, personal growth, gifted/talented adults — Authority: 118
  Dacher Keltner (PhD in Social Psychology, Stanford University) has worked with Paul Ekman, and is now a professor in U.C. Berkeley’s Psychology Department. Here are the Youtube notes from the following video : In Born to Be Good, Dacher Keltner demonstrates that humans are not hardwired to lead lives that are ...
  5 days ago

• For people who don’t get Twitter, Facebook, etc. Nice story ~ other people can read it too

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 435
  This is a long story and a tame story in many respects, read on . . . I am a psychologist. Any one who has majored in psychology knows that we are trained at university and college to be distant from our clients. We are even trained to call people “subjects” – or we were in my day. We are also trained to see ...
  5 days ago

• Respectfully describe reality and it will respect you

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 435
  Image via Wikipedia Where are you in your life? Where are you in your life? On a complicated English roundabout with 15 exits and cars whizzing around on all sides of you? Streaming down the motorway, very happy that there is no tailback but a little bored? On a country lane with hedges to the left and to the ...
  6 days ago

• Find the courage to apologise and invite by understanding the deep hurt

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 435
  When we are outraged, we don’t make a lot of sense I went to a fairly “diverse” university during a civil war: we had black students, white students, and others! Life as an “other” was interesting. People who were partisan assumed that you were “for” them, or “against” them, on whatever criteria ...
  6 days ago

• The Situational Power of Appearance and Posture

  
  The Situationist — Authority: 514
  From EurekaAlert : First impressions do matter when it comes to communicating personality through appearance, according to new research by psychologists Laura Naumann of Sonoma State University and Sam Gosling of The University of Texas at Austin. Despite the crucial role of physical appearance in creating ...
  6 days ago

• Make your team ~ break your team ~ it is in your gift

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 435
  Psychologists know that IQ matters at work I am a work & organizational psychologist and I might even administer an intelligence test to you if you apply to one of my clients.  I can promise you one thing. No matter who the client is, or what they do, it will matter if your IQ were 25% higher or lower.  That ...
  1 week ago

• Make your team ~ break your team ~ it is in your gift

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 435
  Psychologists know that IQ matters at work I am a work & organizational psychologist and I might even administer an intelligence test to you if you apply to one of my clients.  I can promise you one thing. No matter who the client is, or what they do, it will matter if your IQ were 25% higher or lower.  That ...
  1 week ago

• Exercise in extreme living ~ impersonate who you are not?

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 435
  Extreme living ~ become a banker? A few days ago, I suggested an experiment in extreme living: deliberately take a job you hate.  Why not?  Take a job you despise.  Become a banker or a politician. Why would we want to live extremely? A young member of the coaching world commented irritably – why would we want ...
  1 week ago

• The hidden strength of a good friend in today’s shocking world

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 435
  We live in times when there is plenty to shock us I have an old-fashioned habit of switching on the radio to catch the news.  It really is a habit I must break because the quality gets more variable by the day. Today, a little tired from a full Friday night’s work, I feel particularly jaundiced by gibberish that ...
  1 week ago

• Expand your life: one frontier at a time

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 435
  Where is your frontier? Where are the places in your life where you are trying something new and where you know neither the rules and the outcome? Why those places?  And where are the places that you don’t want to try? One frontier at a time I think that like good Generals we can only have one frontier at ...
  1 week ago

• If you care enough, you can build it, and they will come

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 435
  I am amazed by what I wrote months and months ago.  You really should keep a blog and write and write.  At the time, your posts may be rough, but they will clarify and when you reread them months late, you will be surprised by your insights. It seems that some months ago, I jotted down some of my thoughts on using ...
  1 week ago

• Will you look back in wonder? Or are you sleepwalking through an institutionalized life?

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 435
  Is your life institutionalized? Some many of us are institutionalized.  We live our lives as if we are on a long distance flight.  I am travelling from Heathrow to Auckland via LA.  My, doesn’t that feel good.  I am going somewhere you want to go, on a route you would like to follow. But that isn’t life.  ...
  1 week ago

• What can I COUNT ON you to do?

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 435
  Yes,”count on”, “depend upon”, “know that you will do as surely as the sun rises and sets”.  And you ask the same question of me.  What am I 100% committed to doing for you?  That is the foundation of our relationship. Our relationship may be more. It will include What do we do together? What do we ...
  1 week ago

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