Category: Weekly Postings

In his book “Frames of Mind” (1983), Harvard Psychologist Howard Gardner wrote that we need to stop asking “How smart is the student?” and start asking “How is the student smart?”.   This new question...

Time affluence is the feeling that we have sufficient time to pursue activities that are personally meaningful, to think, or simply for leisure.  Time poverty is instead the feeling that one is constantly stressed,...

Every step we give and everything that happens in our life has a reason to be.  None of what happens is wasted time, even setbacks or failure make us stronger in preparation for what...

If I ask you to name successful people in the world, following a commonly accepted definition of success you will probably mention people like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Lionel Messi, Serena Williams,...

Embracing feelings involves acknowledging and accepting them as a natural part of the human experience. It starts with developing self-awareness and the ability to identify our emotions. Once we recognize our feelings, we should...

We all have something called mirror neurons, that fire (react) exactly the same way when we see someone else, as if we were performing that action ourselves. Brain scans demonstrate that when a person...

Often, the best way to help ourselves is by helping others. Helping other people creates a great feeling of satisfaction and fulfillment that sometimes we lose for being so absorbed and busy with our...

Our brain is designed to protect us.  Since it has an extraordinary ability for scenario simulation, it does a phenomenal work in alerting us about every possible risk or negative outcome.  Even though this...

March 20th, 2023 We tend to complain about the things missing in our life under the unrealistic assumption that everything needs to be perfect, everything around us, all the time.  But in reality, there...

March 13th, 2023 If we look at nature, disturbances like storms, fire and disease, result in areas of dead trees, creating the environment for a new forest to grow.  That is the essence of...