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Short, plain-language pieces on how the mind actually works.
Each one explains what the science means for the way we feel and live.
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Diversity and Inclusion
Salesforce audited its own pay and found a gap it had actively tried to prevent. Bias is not usually a failure of…
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Mindful and Compassionate Leadership
Google studied 180 teams to find what makes them effective. The answer was not who was on the team. It was whether…
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Relationship and Social Management
How you manage a relationship depends on beliefs you hold about yourself at least as much as beliefs about the other person.…
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Self-Management
Self-management is usually described as regulating your reactions. That points at the wrong end of the chain. What you are actually managing…
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Compassion
Compassion is not in the 4-Steps™ because kindness is pleasant. It is there because awareness without kindness just gives your inner critic…
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Self-Awareness
There is a part of you that can watch you think, feel, and react. It has been there your whole life. Knowing…
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Mindfulness and Teamwork
Google expected team performance to come down to who was on the team. It did not. What mattered most was whether people…
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The Science of Mindfulness
What the research actually supports about mindfulness, compassion, and belief change, why the order of the four skills is grounded in evidence,…
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Increasing Focus and Productivity
Our minds are elsewhere roughly half the time, and a wandering mind tends to be an unhappy one. Attention is a trainable…
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Reducing Stress and Increasing Well-Being with Mindfulness
We are almost always under some stress. What decides whether it sharpens us or drains us is what we believe about our…
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Mindful Communication
Most of what goes wrong in a conversation goes wrong before anyone says anything difficult. Generous listening, the pause, and why other…
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Mindfulness, Motivation and Goals
Motivation is not a resource you top up. It follows from what people believe about their own skills and the size of…
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