To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress. Connection is… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share
We live in a paradox: connected electronically but disconnected interpersonally. However, when you recognize the problem, you can take steps to correct it. You… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share
In order to do what really matters to you, you have to, first of all, know what really matters to you. — Edward Hallowell Copy Share
Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence. — Edward Hallowell Copy Share
Several elements of the ADD mind favor creativity…As mentioned earlier, the term 'attention deficit' is a misnomer. It is a matter of attention inconsistency.… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share
No work is "most important." Or, put differently, all work is important but work done poorly becomes most important. — Edward Hallowell Copy Share
I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share
Modern loneliness is an extraverted loneliness, in which the person is surrounded by many people and partakes of much communication but feels unrecognized and… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share
Newcomers should be put in an established position where the expectations are known and help is available. New major assignments should mainly go to… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share
Fear shuts people down. When you feel safe, your brain is free to soar. When you feel in danger, your brain goes into survival… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share
A human moment is a term I invented to distinguish in-person communication from electronic. Human moments are exponentially more powerful than electronic ones. I… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share
Young people beginning a career need to realize that there are lots of "buses" in life. More often than not, selecting which one to… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share
It is especially important for managers to know about, neuroplasticity, the greatest discovery in neuroscience in the past 20 years. It refers to the… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share
From the biological standpoint, people deprived of the human moment in their day-to-day business dealings, actually in all domains of their lives, are losing… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share
