If your boss gives you a high five ✋🏻or a fist bump 👊🏻as a form of appreciation for your work, would you like it? Would you like it even more if your boss lunches with […]
Bonding is the result of establishing an emotional connection. You feel that you’re in touch with someone who cares about you and vice versa. Yet work relationships are vulnerable to emotional disconnections that require an extra effort […]
Here’s a statistic that may be hard to believe: There are more than 6.9 billion subscriptions for cell phones around the world, yet only 4.5 billion people have access to working toilets. While the estimated 3.5 billion people without […]
Our minds have the tendency to turn away from what we fear and resist the most. We naturally don’t like pain, frustration, and difficulty. So turning away and avoiding such things are protective acts. And […]
In “The Princess Bride,” while disguised as the Dread Pirate Roberts, Westley delivers one of writer William Goldman’s classic lines: “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” The Stoic philosophers weren’t trying to […]
Ringing in the New Year calls for a celebration. For advice on throwing a fun but fuss-free New Year Eve’s party at home, I turned to Elisa Marshall, party planning guru and co-founder of cafe […]
Reject fear, choose love. This is a popular refrain and wonderful advice. Many believe that there are only two primal emotions in the human being, love and fear, and that we cannot feel both at once. And, that in the same […]
Americans seem awfully divided these days. Everywhere I look, I see signs of antagonism and conflict between groups—and many politicians seem intent on making it worse. Perhaps that’s why a recent USA Today poll revealed that […]
Why be good? People have spilled a lot of ink on this one. There are more good arguments for being good than you might guess. Some are pretty simple—and while they aren’t full, rigorous systematic […]
Right now there’s something going on in my life that’s very difficult. I definitely wish it wasn’t part of my life and yet it’s clear my wishing has done nothing to change it. As is […]
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