As much as it doesn’t seem like it, you have been given a gift. The world has come to a standstill, and a vast disruption has caused the noise of your normal life to be momentarily quiet. Yet, the noise of fear about your job, your career, and how you are going to make a
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In the middle of a first date with Andrew, Jane received an urgent phone call. Could she do an immediate on-air radio interview about her recently published book on politics? There had been breaking political news all week, and her expertise and insight on the situation was wanted. Caught off guard, Jane agreed. She signaled
Everyone wants to win; it feels good! When you win, dopamine is released and hits the reward network of the brain. Your brain celebrates while you create a narrative and story around why and how you won. You deserve the win, you worked hard, you sacrificed, and you conquered. But what did you win, and
Thanks to our hunter-gatherer ancestors, the brain is constantly scanning the environment, watching for a threat. The instinct to search out threats and/or hyper-focus on the “bad” is called negativity bias. This isn’t always a bad thing, the bias toward a threat state improved your ancestor’s odds of survival. The ones who paid attention to
We all have known individuals who freely walk the streets, yet are in their own prison, doing time. Some are doing time with a job they can’t stand. They wake up every morning full of dread, hoping they can make it through the day. They wonder what they have done with their lives.
Why do terrible things spread so fast? The coronavirus, mediocrity, anger, and reality television shows that thrive off arguments, and tearing others down. I read recently the ratings of the television show “The View” in the US skyrocket every time the hosts scream and demean each other. I know it can’t feel good when the show
Imagine what it must be like to be the best in the world at something. To know that few have been able to attain the level of excellence you have. To be admired for what you have accomplished through hard work and dedication. The feeling would be incredible. The truth is you can be, but
The problem with making mistakes is that we tend to make the same ones over and over again. We believe that if we try one more time, the results will be different. Most often, they aren’t different, but you already knew that. It is time to start making new mistakes and making lots of them
I was watching old home videos from twenty years ago that we recently had converted from those small video camera tapes. Five minutes into watching, I had a stark realization that I was not young anymore. What happened, and where did the time go? Later that evening, I wrote in my journal all the ways
