Charisma is the ability to attract and influence others with your ideas and communication style. There are many different types of charismatic people, and there is no moral component associated with this trait. This means that some charismatic people are quiet, graceful, and principle-centered like Jackie Kennedy, while others are much more extroverted, and self-centered …
Bob Barkley commonly said that dentists who graduate from dental school tend to leave there with a combination of a superiority complex and paranoia. The superiority complex evolves because dental students are sheltered from seeing some of their clinical dentistry fail (an issue Bob struggled through and which ultimately led him toward the creation of …
Commitment is at the very core of every genuinely helping relationship. And health-centered / relationship-based practices are all about helping, so without commitment, very little helping can occur. As we have all experienced, commitment is variable and never assured when we meet a person for the first time. This is because commitment involves risk on …
Yesterday, I spent the day on the New River of West Virginia with my 16-year-old son Evan. The New River Gorge is a majestically rugged and beautiful place -the kind of place you remember for the rest of your life. So, I wanted Evan to see it, feel the thrill of the rapids, and experience …
Isn’t this an amazing black and white photograph? Well, it’s not a photograph, it’s a pencil drawing by a self-taught Irish 16 year-old, Shania McDonagh. Clearly, some of us are able to excel in the areas of our strengths well beyond what others could ever even imagine. I can tell you a similar story about …
In the beginning, it was exciting, and the opportunities seemed endless. The chance to join the dental profession by starting dental school had finally arrived. Years of thinking, observing, planning, studying, applying and competing, had led me through the doors on North University Avenue in Ann Arbor. And like my father, and his brother before …
Problems – we all face them, with some being frivolous, and others potentially life-changing. Some cause us to tap into our greatest creative problem-solving potential, while others produce nothing but stress and wheel-spinning. Regardless, we think about them. We think about what to do, and what not to do. But how often do we think …
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Neuroscience tells us that every time we resist reacting with anger, we are reorganizing how our brain functions, which then allows us to remain calm, more perceptive, and therefore more caring. This is because the source of our anger is often emanating from how we feel about ourselves at the moment, much more so than …
Neuroscience research tells us that demonstrating gratitude, and feeling grateful, aren’t just socially appropriate – they’re good for our health. Gratitude not only gives us that warm peaceful feeling inside, it also boosts our immune system, naturally relieves stress, improves our sleep, relieves depression, reduces our pain perception, and energizes us to keep contributing – …
Our capacity for love and friendship is what sets us apart from all other species on this planet. Recently, researchers at the University of Virginia found that we humans are hardwired to empathize primarily with those we consider to be similar to ourselves, and that it happens on a neurobiological level. “Empathy,” became possible due …
