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Upcoming: Virtual book tour to explore the frontier of Emotional Intelligence...
__ Dear SharpBrains community, I hope you’re staying healthy and safe. As you may know, my memoir, Girl Decoded, published by Penguin Random House, comes out on April 21st. I’d planned numerous events...
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Three tips for wise minds to calm coronavirus anxiety
__ In the early days of COVID-19, we faced many difficult decisions in everyday life: trying to weigh risk and decide whether to meet up or stay home, send kids to school or visit the gym. Now that my...
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New book shares science and techniques to breathe better and promote calmness...
Scrolling social media, amid frantic election-related posts and news of escalating COVID-19 cases, you may have come across a friend reminding everyone to just breathe. But can just-breathing really...
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On becoming a psychotherapy pioneer and bestselling writer: A fantastic...
If you’re interested in the life of the mind, here you have an awesome window into a unique mind — a profound memoir by bestselling writer and psychotherapy pioneer Irvin D. Yalom. It was published...
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How Wonder and Awe help us transcend self, regulate stress, and improve...
What is awe? We have all experienced it, even if we didn’t know what to call it. Whether we’re overlooking a beautiful view after a challenging hike or watching a new leaf grow on the plant we’ve been...
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To prevent “cognitive entrenchment,” think like a scientist and be wrong often
In a rapidly changing world, it’s important to be able to adapt and change rather than stubbornly adhering to old ideas and opinions. This was one of the lessons of 2020, a year that forced us to...
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Neuroscientist Lisa Genova, author of the beautiful novel Still Alice,...
A Neuroscientist’s Poignant Study of How We Forget Most Things in Life (The New Yorker): Any study of memory is, in the main, a study of its frailty. In “Remember,” an engrossing survey of the latest...
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Shape your environment, shape your mind
One of the biggest contributors to our happiness is something we barely pay attention to: the voice inside our own heads. As psychologist Ethan Kross describes in his new book Chatter, that voice is...
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New book provides practical guidance for women (and men) to rebalance our...
On one of our “walk and talks” around the lush trails of Rock Creek Park in DC surrounded by bikers, runners, cars and the occasional deer, Wendy and Lisa talked about aging. Wendy’s mother, who had...
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The Mindful Body argues against mindlessly accepting age-related decline in...
In 1979, Harvard researcher Ellen Langer invited elderly men to spend a week at a retreat designed to remind them of their younger days, surrounded by the art, music, food, games, décor, and more from...
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