by Evan Dwan | Jan 4, 2018 | News |
Renowned neuroscientist, Richard Davidson, in his book, The emotional life of your brain, claims that there are six dimensions that determine our emotional style. According to Davidson, the six dimensions “arose from systematic studies of the neural basis of emotion”....
by Evan Dwan | Dec 11, 2017 | News |
In their book, Emotional intelligence 2.0, Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves outline the four skills that constitute emotional intelligence. The first two relate to personal competence and the second two relate to social competence. 1) Self-awareness Self-awareness is...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 1, 2017 | News |
Why is it that some people flourish under fire, remain positive in the face of adversity, grow and become stronger through difficulties? In her book Mindset: The new psychology of success, Stanford University psychologist, Carol Dweck, argues that how we deal with the...
by Evan Dwan | Oct 31, 2017 | News |
“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 23, 2017 | News |
We have within us the power to cultivate positive emotions and experiences in our everyday lives. We have the power to develop joy in ourselves in simple yet profound ways. So often we look to the big events in our lives to make us happy: marriage; career; family;...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 15, 2017 | News |
“No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main”. – John Donne “The deepest need of man”, wrote the philosopher and psychoanalyst, Erich Fromm, “is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of...
