While we all expect setbacks and challenges in work and life, sometimes they’re beyond epic. Perhaps you lost your job a year ago or you’re about to run out of money. Maybe you flunked your certification exam for the third time and everyone knows about it. Or it could be that your angry rant went viral, and now all of your coworkers are either whispering about you or shunning you entirely.
An occasional disaster does happen for most of us, either in our professional or personal lives. And while it’s not helpful for someone to say, “Well, at least you didn’t [insert something worse],” many people have been through unimaginable hardships. The skills required to bounce back from a major professional trauma are remarkably similar to those necessary for resilience in virtually any other area of life. Here’s what highly resilient people do in the face of adversity: Continue reading. Originally posted on Fast Company.
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"IF YOU CAN’T TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF, THEN YOU CAN’T CARE FOR OTHERS. BEING SELFISH IS CRITICAL".
Being called selfish doesn’t feel like a compliment, but the trait can actually make you a better person, psychology experts say. “When you take care of yourself first, you show up as a healthy, grounded person in life,” says Bob Rosen, author of Grounded: How Leaders Stay Rooted in an Uncertain World (Jossey-Bass, 2013). Oriented around survival, Rosen says it’s in our nature to take care of our own needs first. The instinct eventually got a bad rap, however, and became the source of negative emotions like fear and guilt. “As we evolved, we developed higher order needs, [such as] becoming community centered,” he says. “Our theory of human development is based on a model that you’re either selfish or you’re community oriented. The truth is that you need to be both. It’s not an either-or.” Melissa Deuter, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, agrees. “Selfish is an ugly word but it can mean two different things,” she says. “One connotation is that you’re unkind and inconsiderate of others. The other is that you take responsibility for getting your personal, emotional and physical needs met, and that’s an important part of becoming an adult.”. Continue reading. Originally posted on Fast Company. On the surface, stress might seem like a good way to kick-start productivity, but studies show that when we are under stress we can’t think as broadly, widely or deeply.
Stress can increase motor function but it decreases perception, cognition and creativity. David Rock, author of Your Brain at Work and the co-founder of the NeuroLeadership Institute, studies the intricate mechanics of the brain, creativity and stress. Rock works with organizations using brain science to help leaders perform and manage more effectively. “Even a small amount of stress is noisy in the brain,” says Rock. The NeuroLeadership Institute surveyed 6000 workers, and found that only ten percent of people do their best thinking at work. Expanded technology, multitasking and a competitively demanding (or threatening) company culture, can add to the noise in the brain, which crushes creativity. Continue reading. Originally posted on Business to Community. Failure is the most important step to reaching success, but it can still feel like it's crushing your soul. To make failure your friend and not your enemy, you must overcome it. Here are some strategies for moving on after a tough break.
What is Failure? Failure is defined as a lack of success, but its true definition is really up to you. Small things can be failures. Maybe you blew an easy sale today at work, or forgot to grab something important when you were at the store. We all make mistakes, and the mistakes we make that have some weight to them — big or small — make us feel like we've failed. Normally, though, we reserve the word failure for the bigger things. The times when we've let others down, and, more importantly, ourselves. Trying your hardest to do something important and failing is when it really stings and shakes your confidence. Maybe your start-up business idea failed, you lost the big match, or you let someone you care about down. Sometimes failure can leave a mark — but it doesn't have to. Continue reading. originally posted on Lifehacker. I could overwhelm you with statistics showing how improving your memory will positively impact your professional and personal life... but what's the point? Who doesn't want to remember more?
So let's jump right in. Here are six ways you can improve your memory from Belle Beth Cooper, content crafter atBuffer, the social media management tool that lets you schedule, automate, and analyze social-media updates. (Belle Beth was also the source for two extremely popular articles, 5 Scientifically Proven Ways to Work Smarter, Not Harder and 5 Incredibly Effective Ways to Work Smarter, Not Harder. And yes, my headline creativity levels were clearly on a down-swing.) Here's Belle Beth: Science continually finds new connections between simple things we can do every day that will improve our general memory capacity. Memory is a complicated process that's made up of a few different brain activities. Before we look at ways to improve retention, here is a simplified version to show how memory takes place: Continue reading. Originally posted on Inc.com. According to a new study, lack of sleep can promote atrophy (shrinkage) of the brain and cognitive decline. The brain is responsible for cognitive abilities; therefore, faster shrinkage of the brain is associated with decline in cognitive performance. The study was published on July 1 in the journal SLEEP by researchers at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore.
The objective of the study was to examine the impact of sleep duration and quality to age-related changes in brain structure and cognitive performance among relatively healthy older adults. The study group comprised 66 relatively healthy adults aged 55 years or older (average age: 67 years) at the beginning of the study. The seniors underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and neuropsychological assessment every two years. Self-reported sleep duration was recorded and blood samples for high-sensitivity C-reactive protein were drawn. (C-reactive protein is a marker for systemic inflammation.). Continue reading. Originally posted on Examiner.com. |
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