ALL-ROUND IMPROVEMENT – Spirituality for Thinkers. Tools for Doers
Author: Richard Weissbourd, a Harvard psychologist with the graduate school of education, and the Making Caring Common Project have come up with recommendations about how to raise children to become caring, respectful and responsible adults. 1. Make caring for others a priority Why? Parents tend to prioritize their children’s happiness and achievements over their children’s concern for … Read more
“THERE’S A STRONG ASSUMPTION STILL THAT EXERTING SELF-CONTROL IS BENEFICIAL … AND WE’RE SHOWING IN THE LONG TERM, IT’S NOT” Studies have found that trying to teach people to resist temptation either only has short-term gains or can be an outright failure. “We don’t seem to be all that good at [self-control],” Brian Galla, a psychologist at the … Read more
Self-Esteem – The School of Life – Liking ourselves is crucial to our wellbeing. – People you don’t have perfect bodies or anything love themselves so much. While some people with everything you could wish for still feel they need to achieve to ‘earn’ love and respect. – 3 factors: 1. What your same sex … Read more
Psycho-Cybernetics Lessons Video with Summary by Dr. Maxwell Maltz 1 – You have a self image and you can change your self image. 2 – You have a success mechanism in you that will help you if you let it. 3 – You can use your imagination constructively or destructively. 4 – Don’t only think … Read more
Dr. John Gottman began gathering his most critical findings in 1986, when he set up “The Love Lab” with his colleague Robert Levenson at the University of Washington. Gottman and Levenson brought newlyweds into the lab and watched them interact with each other. With a team of researchers, they hooked the couples up to electrodes … Read more
Ok so this video is dedicated to my wife since she likes dedicating so many posts about me not listening (and to all couples where one partner complains about the same thing).First things first – if you feel you need to repeat yourself a lot and it’s an on-going issue guess what? You may need … Read more
