by MAI Team | Anxiety, Business, Coaching, Finance, Flourish, Happiness, Willpower
All right. I understand the Rules Have Changed, and I need to figure out a financial structure for myself. I’ve accepted that my worry about money may be out of proportion from time to time, especially when the Reptile is Ruling. But I want to separate fact from fear....
by MAI Team | ADHD, Anxiety, Attention Deficit Disorder, Changing our Minds, Coaching, Conflict, Disorders, Emotional Intelligence, Flourish, Happiness, High Performance, Meditation, Mental Fitness, Mind/Body Connection, Strengths, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries
Attention seems an odd addition to the dimensions of Emotional Style as described by Richard Davidson in The Emotional Life of Your Brain, since we usually think of attention as a cognitive ability. A closer look, however, reveals that attention has both emotional and...
by MAI Team | Coaching, Conflict, Emotional Intelligence, Happiness, Intelligence & Abilities, Meditation, Mindfulness, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries
Emotions are such messy things. Like subterranean springs, they can thwart the best-laid plans of our rational minds, sap our motivation, send us off into paroxysms of rage and fuel many an “over-served” evening of excess bonhomie. Until fairly recently,...
by MAI Team | Changing our Minds, Flourish, Happiness, Memory, Mental Fitness, Mindfulness, Optimism, Pessimism, Positive Psychology, Self Confidence
The holiday season is looming, and in many households the regular cast of characters is assembling. True to form, the usual sunny-natured suspects will delight in the season and the Scrooge-like participants will not fail to disappoint with their sour demeanours and...
by MAI Team | Disorders, Flourish, Flourishing, Gratitude, Happiness, Optimism, Physical Health, Positivity, Strengths, The Brain Diaries, Values
In Where is its mind? What the battle over the ‘bible’ says about psychiatry, Ian Brown, feature editor of the Globe and Mail, takes the view that the upcoming fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM V) has inflated the definition of mental illness...
by MAI Team | Career, Happiness, High Performance, Motivation, Values
If you want people to perform better, the answer is simple, pay them more, right? Not so, it turns out. Higher financial rewards actually cause a decrease in performance on tasks requiring even rudimentary cognitive skill. Excuse me? This is what Dan Pink shares with...