How can recognizing, understanding, and managing our emotions contribute to our happiness, success, and well-being? Emotions play a big role in our lives. Yet, for most of us, they’re viewed as something to ignore or overcome. For these reasons, we often have little experience identifying our feelings. We say we’re stressed out, when what we…
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In a world where empathy is in decline, how can we learn to care more? If you sense we’re less empathetic today than decades past, you’re right. Studies show there’s been a 48 percent decline in empathy between 1979 and 2009. Though human beings are wired to care about each other, we need the right…
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What if the very tech that connects us is taking away our need to interact? Technology connects us to more people than ever before. Yet, as Adam Waytz, author of the book, The Power of Human: How Our Shared Humanity Can Help Us Create a Better World, points out, the data shows we’re interacting with…
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How would our decision-making change if we shifted focus from the present to the future? Instant gratification comes easily to us. But when we delay tackling long-term problems associated with things like, health, climate, or society, we cheat our future selves. Bina Venkataraman, author of the book, The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless…
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How does work change when we have five generations in the workplace at once? For the first time in history, there are five different generations working alongside one another in the workplace. In some organizations, that makes for a potential 60-year age difference among employees and, for that reason alone, it makes sense that there…
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