The Insights Blog

When someone deeply listens to you it is like holding out a dented cup you've had since childhood and watching it fill up with cold, fresh water. When it balances on top of the brim, you are understood. When it overflows and touches your skin, you are loved. When someone deeply listens to you the room where you stay starts a new life and the place where you wrote your first poem begins to glow in your mind's eye. It is as if gold has been discovered! When someone deeply lis

Excerpted from Nelson Mandela’s Inauguration Speech: Our Deepest Fear is not that we are Inadequate. Our Deepest Fear is that we powerful Beyond Measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that Most Frightens us. We Ask Ourselves: who am I to be brilliant, Gorgeous, Talented, Fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is Nothing Enlightened about Shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure aroun

I was reminded about the importance of precision in business after reading a recent article in the New York Times. It was about the value of accuracy in emotions. Surprised? The connection between career success and the ability to identify our feelings is much closer than you might imagine. In this article, author Lisa Feldman Barrett profiles people with finely tuned feelings— the ones psychologists describe as exhibiting “emotional granularity.” AKA: emotional differentiati

Today’s research has proven that we are able to influence our own neurochemistry whenever we want to as long as we are healthy.