America is in the grips of a mental health crisis. Giving weight to what the experts have known for years, Mental Health America’s latest report provides a snapshot into a very real situation, a situation in which the nation’s mental health is descending to dangerous levels with no easy way out. According to the recent…
1. Failure is a beautiful norm. If science can teach business anything, it is this not so sexy fact: The problem with science isn’t that most experiments fail; it is that most failure is ignored. Lots of research has been conducted that the stuff we read in peer-reviewed journals is biased towards “statistically significant’ results,…
We the people, without question, are currently outraged, divided, and confused by an overwhelming amount of recent news and information being slung at us from every direction. Some of the news is real. Some is complete fiction. However, most of the news we hear is a weird concoction of half-truths and incomplete facts mixed with…
The Importance About Accepting Change Change is good, according to the old adage, but we all know how difficult it can be to adjust to change or to inspire new behaviors and break habits. If change is good, then, why is it often so difficult to bring about? The answer lies in a combination of…
How can I achieve true happiness? This is a question most of us ask from time to time as we tune in to the ideals of happiness that surround us in our everyday lives. Happiness has been making the news in recent years as we hear that more and more people are suffering the effects…
During the recent recession, many industries suffered enormous losses, but one rose triumphant from the metaphorical ashes: the self-help sector. The self-improvement market continued to grow during 2008 and afterwards, now representing $10 billion per year in industry. As our desire to improve ourselves grows, so too does the fortune amassed by the self-help industry,…
I remember being a student at Notre Dame and reading some classic CS Lewis in those required theology classes; a quote of his always stuck with me. Somewhere along the way he was asked in a class he was teaching how to define humility and he answered in a clever way that described what it…
I was asked recently what was a blunder in the early days when I was practicing psychotherapy that embarrassed me and yet gave me pause to learn something profound. With the growth of my current company concentrating on high powered, critical stakes decision making moments with people, I do catch myself going back in my…
One of the bennies of traveling is that one can get some unique local perspectives on larger current issues, which can be so rich when one just happens to be in such a culturally and educationally stimulating region like New England. So, as I was on a hotel treadmill listening to a local network interview…
How are we just like Congressman Weiner? Like you all, I am both oddly perturbed that Congressman Weiner’s sexting scandal is front page news and mildly intrigued. No, not from some perverted visual curiosity of the inappropriate pictures, but from a neuroscience side—-this incident, for me, is rich with key commentaries about: Human Decision Making…