Articles
Insights on resilience, stress and performance
Reflections and practical skills on mastering pressure, cognitive discipline, emotional intelligence and flow.
7 Steps for Leaders to Beat the Overload Tax and Reclaim Attention
Our minds remain the most extraordinary product of evolution. But overload is creating a deeper inequality between those who protect their cognitive capacity and those who don't.
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Empathy or professional discomfort avoidance?
Your child melts down. You want to be a good parent so you feel their distress acutely. You give them a treat to make it stop. The child learns to manipulate you, and a vicious cycle ensues. That cycle starts with not knowing the difference between empathy, sympathy, and altruism.
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The neurobiology of play
The instinct to play is ingrained and it may be the portal into your best work yet.
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Why high performers end up listless, directionless, and blaming the job (it's not the job)
So many people have given up on fulfilment. They clip the ticket, get through the day. They do not have time to define their purpose or seek “fulfilment”. But fulfilment matters - more than most people realise.
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Stop the 6,200 Daily Thoughts Wrecking Your Life
The mind generates some 6,200 discrete thoughts per day. Most of this mental chatter is wrecking your life. Master your mind under pressure in 4 learnable steps.
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