Emotions

How to Sustain Your Empathy in Difficult Times

Jamil Zaki

Preserving our capacity to demonstrate empathy in difficult times.

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It’s cool to be kind: The value of empathy at work

Jamil Zaki, Bryan Hancock, Brooke Weddle, Lucia Rahilly

This article transcribes an interview between experts from McKinsey and Jamil Zaki, a psychology professor at Stanford University. It simultaneously highlights the virtues and the potential excesses of empathy, in order to help us use it wisely.

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Building the Cognitive Budget for Your Most Effective Mind

Jordan Birnbaum

Managing our cognitive energy like we manage a budget.

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10 Skills Created By The Highly Sensitive Brain

Esther Bergsma

An article on the cognitive functioning of highly sensitive persons and the advantages they may derive from it.

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Le cerveau des personnes très sensibles réagit plus intensément aux émotions

Jadzia Jagiellowicz, Saverio Tomasella

[The brains of highly sensitive persons react more intensely to emotions] What happens in the brain of highly sensitive persons when they are confronted to positive or negative emotions?

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Stop Being So Hard on Yourself

Melody Wilding

Appeasing our inner critic and getting it to reconsider its level of expectations. 

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How to Overcome Your Fear of Making Mistakes

Alice Boyes

Accepting our fears, taming them and channeling them to our advantage. 

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Tuning in, turning outward: Cultivating compassionate leadership in a crisis

Nicolai Chen Nielsen, Gemma D’Auria, Sasha Zolley

Knowing oneself well and knowing others well to better face difficult times.

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SurveyMonkey’s CEO on Creating a Culture of Curiosity

Zander Lurie

How can you encourage your team members to show greater curiosity in their daily lives? A case study based on the example of online survey company SurveyMonkey.

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To Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking, Stop Thinking About Yourself

Sarah Gershman

Getting past the anxiety that is almost always associated with speaking in public.

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