“Fascinate?” you may wonder. In conflicts, people argue, fight, yell, accuse, threaten, push each other’s buttons…but fascinate? That doesn’t seem to fit into our typical paradigm of conflict behaviors. Perhaps, it’s time for a mind shift. Triggers are not just those pesky things that we become all worked up about and that send our brains [...]
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Once upon a time, Discourse possessed a creative seed that in the right conditions had the power to germinate into better understanding among people and offer new solutions to their problems. The wise and the elderly knew how to take care of the creative seed and help it sprout into a peaceful growth until one [...]
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Rewire your brain for positive influence and happier relationships View more presentations from Anastasia Pryanikova.
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The more you learn about the brain, the more you realize how wonderfully delusional our brains are. As Anais Nin put it, “We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.” Whatever seems real to us may turn out to be a fabrication of our subconscious mind and the senses. How [...]
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My computer slows down to a halt. I get impatient. I start looking for the cell phone. I can check Twitter, and Facebook, and email faster that way. I can’t find the phone. Instead, my eyes catch the cover of a coffee table book about luxury brands. It’s in Russian, and it has beautiful photos. [...]
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In a recent study on persuasion, UCLA neuroscientists have shown they can use brain scanning to predict whether people will use sunscreen during a one-week period following public service announcements even better than the people themselves can. ScienceDaily reports: The participants had their brains scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at UCLA’s Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain [...]
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I went to a book store in a local mall the other day. As I was passing a small chocolate shop, a huge sign in front – “Store Closing – Sale 50-70% off”- caught my eye. Inside the shop, there was a commotion of people that you’d expect to see on a Valentine’s Day. It [...]
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“Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.” ~ Harriet Goldhor Lerner Important relationships, service, and influence all start with a human connection. John Ryan, president of the Center for Creative Leadership, talks [...]
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It’s been four years since I received Vogue in the mail. The birth of my daughter, several moves and other priorities took time away from this element of self-indulgence. Nevertheless, I still remember how flipping through those glossy pages made me feel. Like Carrie Bradshaw proclaimed in “Sex and the City,” spending a leisurely morning [...]
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With exclusive interviews from
Dr. Farhad Saba,
Dr. Rosemary Lehman,
Dr. Donna Gibbs,
Dr.Germain-Rutherford,
Anastasia Pryanikova, M.A., J.D.,
and James Breeze.
