by MAI Team | Business, Career, Education, Employees, Feedback, Heroes, High Performance, Inner Strength, Leadership, Motivation, Team Performance
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower And just how, exactly, does one do that? It’s the $64,000 question, isn’t it? Chris Lowney, a Jesuit seminarian turned investment...
by MAI Team | Education, Feedback, Flourish, Flourishing, High Performance, Intelligence & Abilities, Learning, Motivation, Positive Psychology, Strengths, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries, The Mind, Values
Imagine there’s a heaven… Where every kid learns at his or her own pace, in accordance with their learning style, with an emphasis on what interests them. Well, heaven has moved a step closer to reality, as described in this article by Wired Magazine and in...
by MAI Team | Education, Flourish, Happiness, Intelligence, Learning, Physical Fitness
Many of us grew up believing that our IQ was an important, and unchangeable, measure of our intelligence. When not provided with our scores directly, we inferred them from how we managed in school. If we sailed through, we were comfortable with the notion that we...
by MAI Team | ADHD, Aging, Anxiety, Attention Deficit Disorder, Education, Intelligence, Mental Fitness, Mind/Body Connection, Motivation, Physical Fitness, Physical Health, Resilience, Self Confidence, Stress
Students from Naperville, Illinois sure are smart. In 1999 Naperville’s District 203 eighth graders scored sixth in math and first in the world in science in an international standards test called the TIMSS (Trends In International Mathematics and Science...