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Table of ContentsDepression as an Adaptive StrategyDepression is an adaptive life strategy that looks and feels like anything but adaptive. So, here’s how that works.According to psychiatrists Stevens and Price, whether we have lost an attachment and may feel alone and unloveable, or have lost standing somehow and feel like
Table of ContentsAttractiveness Attracts SuccessYou knew that. We all did. We knew that, or at least are not surprised to hear that:Studies show that you’re more likely to get hired if you look well-groomed, that good-looking people make about 12% more money than less appealing folks, and that attractive real-estate brokers bring in
Table of ContentsHuman Intelligence Every once in a while, I read something that knocks my socks off. This time it was Annie Murphy Paul’s piece on Intelligence in the New York Times, “How to Think Outside Your Brain.”If I understood correctly, the rough idea is that the human brain has
That doesnât happen to us. Or does it? How many times a year, or a week even, do we feel like we are getting hit by something, at work or at home, thatâs knocking us more than 5 inches off our mark. Here in the US, we struggle on so many frontsâjustice, education, election, immigration, infrastructure, prison, jobs, housing, climateâand there is no telling when we will get hit, as individuals or as a nation, with a major destabilizing crisis on any one of these fronts. We struggle with each other on the bes...
The International Leadership Industry spends about $50 billion/year teaching people authenticity. What does that even mean?What is Authenticity?Here is partial definition from Merriam Webster: 2: not false or imitation : REAL, ACTUAL an authentic cockney accent 3: true to one’s own personality, spirit, or character is sincere and authentic with no pretensionBeing real, actual, our essential, true self.