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Encourage Your Brain: How Impostor Syndrome Can Give You Confidence
I’m enjoying Adam Grant’s book, Think Again. Among the many things I learned was a fun insight that might alleviate some of the Impostor Syndrome attacks that I hear about from so many of my colleagues, and that I encounter myself! Grant talks in his book about some...
A Different Kind of PRIDE Celebration
As Pride Month comes to a close, I asked one of our instructors if we could share an article she had written, because it touched my heart and reflects our tagline, "Changing Minds, for Good." We want every mind to be able to look at life through the lens of love and...
Encourage Your Brain: How to Get Hard-Headed People to Change Their Mind
https://youtu.be/vBTttWKWh2s There’s a quote attributed to Dick Cavet that says “It’s the rare person who wants to hear what they don’t want to hear.” So the question I ask myself is, how do you get people who don’t want to hear,...
Being Able to Say No, and Brava Simone
I’m betting that this message is evergreen, even though it’s birthed from today’s headlines – which is that Simone Biles pulled out of the team competition at the Tokyo Olympics. Wow. Today's message is evergreen because it has to do with being able to say no, even...
Encourage Your Brain: Practice NOT Avoiding
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...
Encourage Your Brain: Getting Unstuck
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...
Encourage Your Brain: Your Brain is on a Budget
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...
Encourage Your Brain: Suit Up
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...
Encourage Your Brain: Avoid the Super-Chicken Syndrome
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...
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