Risk Taking And The Drive To Pursue

There Are Some Surprising Payoffs With Only A Few Minutes' Practice, Like Eliminating The Loss Of Concentration That Multitasking Usually Brings. Short Daily Mindfulness Practice In Beginners Also Improves Memory, To The Point That A Group Of Students Who Volunteered For A Study Got Significantly Better Scores On Their Graduate School Entrance Exams.

We're Exposed And Carry In Our Bodies Multiple Chemicals, And We Have To Understand How They Interact. Both How They Individually Interact And The Thousands Of Effects They Can Produce When They Interact With The Receptors That Run Our Bodies.

Every Morning, I Go Off To A Small Studio Behind My House To Write. I Try To Ignore All Email And Phone Calls Until Lunchtime. Then I Launch Into The Sometimes Frantic Busy-ness Of A Tightly Scheduled Day.

Our Genetic Heritage Endows Each Of Us With A Series Of Emotional Set-points That Determines Our Temperament. But The Brain Circuitry Involved Is Extraordinarily Malleable; Temperament Is Not Destiny.

There Is Perhaps No Psychological Skill More Fundamental Than Resisting Impulse.