In every workplace, there are three basic kinds of people: givers, takers and matchers. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant breaks down these personalities and offers simple strategies to promote a culture of generosity and keep self-serving employees...
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7 Reasons Why Smart, Hardworking People Don´t Become Successful
For the longest time, I believed that if smart people worked hard and grew up in a reasonably nurturing environment, success would come eventually. I looked at other people and thought, “Wow, that person’s going to go on to do great things.” But as I...
Read moreExcerpts from Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence
Image by John Hain from Pixabay. What follows is an excerpt by EE Magazine from a longer article originally published as Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence, by Daniel Christian Wahl. In Reflections on Evolutionary...
Read more3 things modern managers can learn from decades’ old studies of human behavior
The field of social psychology has long grappled with questions inspired by real-world events. Here’s how half-century-old findings can teach today’s leaders. Often, articles that draw advice from psychology for people in business focus on exciting new...
Read moreYour environment could be changing your IQ on a genetic level, study finds
This is a hugely important link. The nature-versus-nurture argument of intelligence just got a lot more complicated with the discovery that the environment can modify the expression of a key gene in the brain, affecting intelligence far more than we previously...
Read moreThird-person self-talk facilitates emotion regulation without engaging cognitive control: Converging evidence from ERP and fMRI
Abstract Does silently talking to yourself in the third-person constitute a relatively effortless form of self control? We hypothesized that it does under the premise that third-person self-talk leads people to think about the self similar to how they...
Read moreWhy emotions should be taught in schools rather than ignored and suppressed
What exactly is education? Today, many view it as an opportunity to learn, thrive, and excel in the world. Others see it as a necessary step toward obtaining a piece of paper that ensures one’s entrance into the professional world. Regardless of your...
Read moreMeetings With Remarkable Men
This video is about Untitled Project Esoteric Teachings. G.I. Gurdjieff is a spiritual teacher and mystic who, after a lifetime study, developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
Read moreThe dark side of always thinking positively
You’re feeling down? Life hit you too hard, so now it seems to you that nothing makes sense? Think positively! When you shift your mindset, your life will change, too. Positive psychology may look silly when you see it from the outside, but it totally...
Read moreCulture’s Effect On Workplace Psychology
In 2011, the Financial Times released an important article that had helped reveal an interesting fact. Hedge funds and private equity firms weren’t just looking for new innovative companies — for research, they began looking at something more interesting:...
Read moreHallucinations are much more common than we think
When certain experiences fall outside of societal norms, people tend to keep their personal events to themselves. For instance, you probably don’t hear people walking down the street talking about their hallucinations as candidly as they do, say, their...
Read moreThis One Simple Technique Will Stoke Your Creativity Every Day
Mindfulness isn’t only a meditation technique, it’s a way to observe the minutiae of daily life to unlock creativity. Source Fast Company Newsletter By Gwen Moran One key to innovation is creativity–and organizations spend a great deal of time looking...
Read moreThe Broken Brain documentary
I Made a Documentary SourceThe Broken Brain website by Mark Heyman MD I was a thriving, young doctor with a promising career ahead of me. Then, within a short amount of time (it felt like it was almost overnight), my entire life changed. Suddenly, depression...
Read morePhysicists Overturn a 100-Year-Old Assumption on How Brains Work
The human brain contains a little over 80-odd billion neurons , each joining with other cells to create trillions of connections called synapses. by Science Alert Mike McRae The numbers are mind-boggling, but the way each individual nerve cell contributes...
Read moreRiding the Waves of Change – How Altering Your Brainwaves Can Change Your Life
The scientific idea of brainwaves has made its way into popular media as can be witnessed in art, movies and science fiction. The image of a person with electrodes on his scalp while his brainwaves are being recorded is almost as iconic as the symbol...
Read moreIntroverts And Spirituality
Why do introverts tend to be highly spiritual? Society dictates that we follow specific images projected by the main stream media, so why do introverts tend to rebel from these stereotypes? Introverts tend to look within for answers versus having the...
Read moreThe Dawn of a Conscious Business Movement
Let’s start by clearly communicating an intention: this is more of a call to action than an article. Urgent action is needed if we are to navigate through an immediate U-turn to reverse the effects of unconscious business. Most of the challenge and chaos...
Read moreThis Photographer Shot The Same People On Their Way To Work Over 9 Years
Peter Funch stood outside Grand Central for nearly a decade photographing the daily rituals of commuters. source CO.Design Blog By Katharine Schwab We all have our little morning rituals, whether on the train, at the coffee shop, or while walking into...
Read moreThis Is The Mind-Set You’ll Need In Order To Thrive In The Future Of Work
Dealing with unpredictability requires what one Harvard psychologist has called a “self-transforming mind.” Here’s how to develop one. Source FastCompany Blog by Liz Alexander In the 1930s, long before machine learning was anything more than a figment...
Read moreHow to Flourish After Economic Collapse
Using the stress of uncertainty as fuel for innovation The first challenge to overcome, for those going through either slow economic decline or sudden economic collapse, is uncertainty. In the culture I grew up in, there’s no need for too much concern...
Read moreJim Carrey: I Needed Color
For additional information regarding Jim's art please visit: www.signaturegalleries.com For all other inquiries email info@befreejc.com Director/Producer David Bushell Associate Producer - Linda Fields Hill Editor - Nicole C. Conrad Music - Dave Palmer...
Read moreThe Cosmic Giggle - Spirituality and Consciousness Documentary
The Cosmic Giggle is an experimental documentary film that explores the human energy field's dynamic relationship with our environment. Naturally as human beings, we are connected to a vast network of fluid information inherent to the world around us....
Read moreNeuroscience Shows Us That The Way We Work Is Wrong
Source pixabay via Corporate Rebel by by Danielle Freude-Hellebrand, executive coach Slowly we are waking up to realize that a lot we’ve been taught about management and leadership is wrong. Most of us grew up in the business world believing that a manager’s...
Read moreIs there a metaphysical aspect and approach for dealing with EMFs?
Source pixabay_ritual via Nexusfeed Newsletter Everyone probably is familiar with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Ayurveda, the oldest form of ‘organized’ medicine on the planet—close to five thousand years before the American Medical Association...
Read more7 ideas about finding the work you were meant to do
You don’t “find your calling,” you fight for it — and other lessons from people who found their passion (sometimes late in life). Via TED Blog By Kate Torgovnick May on May 10, 2016 in Interviews Whether it was during a career aptitude test or in a heart-to-heart...
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