We all know that we need honest feedback to improve and grow. Lavishing praise on people all the time doesn’t help them. But we also know that it can be difficult to give honest feedback without creating a toxic environment and shutting the creative juices of...
“Studies concerned with functions have identified several domains in which episodic future thinking produces performance benefits, including decision making, emotion regulation, prospective memory, and spatial navigation.”...
We see things not as they are, but as we are. Many wise teachers have used the quote above over the last several centuries. And it is so true. We see the world through the lenses of our own experiences. We think that we see the world as it is, but the truth is that we...
Generous thinking assumes the best about people Generous thinking and my specialist consultant Recently, I consulted a specialist to see one of my hospitalized patients. I was hoping to get her recommendation the same day I consulted her. Two days later, I...
Last month, I had the opportunity to listen to the renown marriage and family expert Jim Burns. He shared some simple but profound ingredients to effective relationships that inspired me to think differently about my relationships. Since then, I’ve spent some...
I teach a course on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution at Servants University. Something I’ve taught for years is that, in a conflict resolution, the stronger party has the moral obligation to initiate reconciliation by going to the weaker party to initiate a...
