My daughter visited me this past week and she brought her talents along with her. And those talents are her organizational genes. She loves organizing and winnowing, letting go of things that no longer serve their original purpose, creating environments that feel...
In one of our leadership coaching classes, we had a fascinating discussion about getting to the root of a client’s challenge. I had to laugh, because that same day, I joined my husband in digging a trench in our backyard so that we could lay an electrical line out to...
Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, is the author of 7½ Lessons About the Brain. She offers some eyebrow-raising ideas in the book, and it’s a fun, fast, fascinating read—I highly recommended it. An important point she makes early in the book is that the brain’s...
A friend of mine is taking a masterclass on fashion and came across an interesting piece of research about what happens in the brain when we wear certain types of attire. A researcher had subjects wear a white coat that they believed belonged to a doctor. Those who...
William Muir is an evolutionary biologist who was studying what would increase the egg-laying productivity of chickens. His hypothesis was that by continually breeding the Super-Chickens of the flock generation after generation, one would progressively develop a...
