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Lasting Memories: How to Create Them to Improve Learning and Remembering
At a recent memory conference, a colleague asked whether creating lasting memories can help students remember what they learned. This is even more crucial during tests and examinations when students are anxious and nervous, with a strong tendency to forget. Lasting...
Why Keeping a Gratitude Journal Can Make You Feel Great and Alive
In 2019, a study showed Positive Psychology interventions can improve work-related outcomes including job stress, mental health, and organizational prosocial behavior (Sin, et al.). From this and other studies, gratitude emerged as an emotion or personal trait that...
How to Reduce Your Emotional Burden and Improve Your Well-Being
If you were to conduct a survey about teaching a course on managing emotions at your workplace, there would be overwhelming support from your managers and staff for it. Many people know the dangers of carrying an emotional burden but not many know how to manage or...
Why Checking Your Strategy, Effort and Work Attitude is Important for Success
Like most people, you are busy at work and the idea of stopping to check on your strategy, effort, and work attitude is a tough one. Most are just too busy to reflect on how they are doing at work or whether they are achieving their objectives. Checking your strategy,...
Are You Overcoming Adversity Effectively During This Difficult Time?
Studies in positive psychology have shown that resilience is one of the most important protective traits that will help you succeed in your career. These studies show that overcoming adversity effectively is now considered an essential business skill for success....
How to Change Your Mindset and be More Successful
Have you had friends who when you disagree with them, will say "You need to change your mindset!" And it's always you that has to change your mindset, not them. Anyway, what is a mindset? Are there different types of mindsets? And more importantly, can you really...
Is the “Fight or Flight” Response a Myth or Science?
When a person feels threatened, we tend to refer to this person's immediate response as a "fight or flight" response. This "fight or flight" response can be: Fight: talk back, argue, shout, throw tantrums, refuse to move, hit out physicallyFlight: ignore, keep quiet,...
Does Experience Rewire Your Brain Leading to Better Thinking?
Is your brain shaped by your experience? And does that lead to better thinking? Research has shown that your brain is altered by everyday experiences and these brain changes do lead to better thinking. To find out what experiences can rewire your brain leading to...
Brain Hemispheres: How to Get Them to Work Better
Currently, there is a tremendous amount of interest, among scientists and educators, in how each brain hemisphere processes information, how information is shared between the brain hemispheres, and how the two hemispheres work together to process information. This...