Building a culture focused on performance may not be the best, healthiest, or most sustainable way to fuel results. Instead, it may be more effective to focus on creating a culture of growth. Building a growth culture requires a blend of individual and organizational components such as an environment that feels safe, a focus on continuous learning, time-limited experiments, and continuous feedback.
Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our “psychological immune system” lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.
We will always experience pain, loss, discomfort, disappointment, and frustration. There is absolutely nothing you can do to prevent these things.
Richard Davidson is researching how mindfulness changes the emotional life of our brains.
…”Getting anything you want”…(1)
The Practice(1)
Why 80% of relationships don’t last(1)