Positive Psychology

Having a resilient brain is about how well your brain handles stress. Developing resiliency is a neuroplastic process your brain can learn.

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The human brain is fascinating. It’s so complex that it’s hard to believe we will ever understand it. We still have yet to think in quantum terms about our biology, and just like physics, factoring consciousness into the equation is going to change everything. Right now, we are in the midst of a new scientific […]

Feedback loops are powerful forces of nature. Melting polar ice caps reduce the earth’s reflectivity, causing it to absorb more heat from the sun, which accelerates the melting. The cumulative, accelerating aspects of such loops make it imperative to break the cycle before it gets out of control. Below, I identify three feedback loops among financial …

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, a new study shows differences in the brain’s emotional network in people who don’t meditate, people new to meditation, and people considered long-term meditators, who have thousands of lifetime experience with mindfulness meditation. Mental training such as mindfulness meditation – an accepting awareness of the present moment – has been …

Christine Comaford discusses how to develop emotional agility at work, and shares tips on how leaders can build the resilience their teams need.

Why are some people better at creative thinking than others? And what can science teach us about improving our brain's own power for creativity?

When business leaders think of the term “positivity,” too many envision a kind of squishy, touchy-feely happiology that seems out of place in today’s fast-moving workplace. But positivity should not be dismissed so easily.

As Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has put it, leaders should be striving for an organization full of "learn-it-alls," not "know-it-alls."

Almost every person procrastinates to some degree.

 

If you want to figure out how to stop procrastinating, you need to start by learning about procrastination as a general concept, since in order to figure out how to overcome your procrastination problem, you must first understand the nature of your procrastination.

 

In the following article, you will learn what it means to be a procrastinator, what types of procrastinators exist, and how to tell if you yourself are a procrastinator, before seeing what you can do in order to get yourself to stop procrastinating.

Those who are more mindful are less caught up in the experience of pain, and report feeling less pain than those who are less mindful, a new study reports. Researchers say higher disposition mindfulness during painful heat is associated with greater deactivation of the posterior cingulate cortex.

A culture of trust yields higher engagement, happier employees, greater productivity, and higher profits. And it all starts in the brain.

 It’s the-in-thing to eat healthily and exercise. Social media are oozing with motivational quotes and selfie-styled affirmations. We’re perpetually improving and inspiring ourselves.

 

So why aren’t we happy, dammit?

Reputational motives drive prosocial behavior. How can we harness them for good?

It's one of the most popular questions we get: is there a difference between mindfulness and meditation? If so, what is it? Find out here.

How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies "originals": thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals -- including embracing failure. "The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they're the ones who try the most," Grant says. "You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones."

Ask anyone that has experienced a true, high-production virtual reality experience and nearly all can remember our “first time.” The immersive nature of the technology tends to evoke such a visceral response that it often remains with us long after our dive into the virtual realm. Most people I’ve s…

Over-working leads to burnout, here's a better way to get things done.