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Resilience Isn’t Fixed—It Can Be Learned and Strengthened It is common to think of resilience as an inborn personality trait. Many people assume that some individuals are simply wired to handle stress better than others. However, a substantial body of research challenges this assumption, suggesting ...
What It Really Means to Savor In a private notebook entry from around 1840, a young Gustave Flaubert—then roughly eighteen years old and years away from writing Madame Bovary—wrote a striking reflection on happiness. “The secret of being happy consists of knowing how to enjoy yourself—enjoy being at...
The Hidden Cost of Productivity: Why Managing Yourself Matters More Than Managing Your Calendar For decades, the productivity industry has promised that the secret to accomplishing more lies in mastering calendars, email, meetings, and task lists. Every few years, a new system emerges to help people...
The Power of Mary Pickford's Quote on NegativityMary Pickford, once the most famous woman in the world, faced a career collapse and a crumbling marriage. In 1934, she wrote, "All the water in the world cannot sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. All the negativity in the world cannot sink a p...
Kurt Vonnegut once said, “The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.” This emotional intelligence quote of the week challenges how quickly we judge events. Instead of immediately calling something “good” or “bad,” Vonnegut urges u...
What Kurt Vonnegut Taught Us About Good News vs. Bad News In this week’s emotional intelligence quote of the week, novelist Kurt Vonnegut reminds us that we rarely know what is truly good or bad news. During a lecture, he drew a graph of Shakespeare’s Hamlet to show the “shapes of stories.” Then he ...
Picture two colleagues telling you the exact same false statement. One knows it's a lie and says it anyway. The other has no idea whether it's true, and doesn't really care – they just want to sound confident. You instinctively relax around the second person. They're not a "liar," you tell yourself,...
What Seneca Knew About Pessimism Bias Long Before Psychologists Proved It This week's emotional intelligence quote comes from the Stoic philosopher Seneca. He wrote to his friend Lucilius, who was worrying about a danger that hadn't arrived and might never arrive. Seneca's advice? Don't be unhappy b...
Why CEOs Are Botching AI Layoffs and Destroying Employee Trust When companies announce layoffs due to AI, the way they deliver the news matters just as much as the decision itself. Recent layoffs at Microsoft and General Motors show that CEOs are botching AI layoffs, and it's destroying trust with e...
Why Guilt and Shame Fail to Build Lasting Habits Most people try to change their habits by focusing on what they should stop doing. "Don't eat junk food," "Don't skip workouts," or "Don't leave the lights on." But research from psychologists Dr. Jiaying Zhao and Dr. Elizabeth Dunn shows that shame a...
What Serena Williams Taught Us About Emotional Intelligence Under Pressure On June 30, 44-year-old Serena Williams walked onto Centre Court for her first singles match in nearly four years. Her opponent, Maya Joint, was a 20-year-old Australian less than half her age. Fifteen thousand fans filled th...
How Folarin Balogun Turned a Controversial Red Card Into a Lesson in Emotional Intelligence Folarin Balogun, the U.S. striker, was having the game of his life. He had just scored his third goal of the World Cup when, in the 64th minute, referee Raphael Claus reviewed a slow-motion replay of an accid...
