How can I be happy, EI, Resilience, and some – My Favorites January 2015: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

My monthly  “My Favorites”    routine includes posting links to great content I ran across, to encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. Enjoy!

 

“How can I be happy?” Narrated by Stephen Fry – That’s Humanism!

 

  

 

6 Mindsets That Will Boost Your Vitality
How many times have you heard the statement, “people have a natural resistance to change?” Is that true? Dig a little deeper and you might discover resistance to change is just the symptom. People have a natural resistance to feeling incompetent. Humiliation is a deep fear we all possess. We don’t want to feel or look incompetent and change has the potential to activate that feeling. (MICK UKLEJA) Read HERE

 

Ignore Emotional Intelligence at Your Own Risk                                                          Call it Grant vs. Goleman. Two academic heavyweights face off on a topic that every student of leadership and HR cares – or at least hears – a lot about: emotional intelligence. Wharton professor Adam Grant kicks it off with a LinkedIn blog post, “Emotional Intelligence Is Overrated,” arguing that “it’s a mistake to base hiring or promotion decisions on it” and that “even in emotionally demanding work, when it comes to job performance, cognitive ability still proves more consequential than emotional intelligence.” Daniel Goleman, the psychologist credited with coining the term EI (and, full disclosure, a friend), issues his rebuttal, “Let’s Not Underrate Emotional Intelligence,” questioning the specific assessment of EI used by Grant, and referring to the various studies conducted by “The Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence.” And the comments fly. Harvard Business Review

 

How to develop extreme resilience (Prof.Rao)

 

20 Signs You’re Succeeding In Life Even If You Don’t Feel You Are                         We all feel like failures from time to time. While this is a normal feeling, you have to find a way to see yourself and your life from a different perspective. Sometimes we ignore the “little things.” Just because you are not a millionaire, don’t live in a mansion, and you don’t drive a fancy car, that doesn’t mean you’re a failure. In fact, it’s quite the contrary. Here are 20 signs that you are succeeding in life

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter Langenecker
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