By Adam Grant
When leaders lack the wisdom to question their convictions, followers need the courage to persuade them to change their minds.
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Each and every one of us grapples with our own highly personal mythology-the psychic force that allows us to weave the fragments of our experience into coherent story. These mythologies shape our every thought, perception, and action, helping us to feel safe and secure in our identities.
Emotions link our feelings, thoughts, and conditioning at multiple levels, but they may remain a largely untapped source of strength, freedom, and connection.
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When Chip Conley, dynamic author of the bestselling Peak, suffered a series of devastating personal and professional setbacks, he began using what he came to call “Emotional Equations” (such as Joy = Love – Fear) to help him focus on the variables in life that he could handle, rather than...
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When he was 26, Chip Conley broke the two cardinal rules of starting a business: He invested in an industry about which he knew nothing, and he ignored the mantra “location, location, location.” He bought a notorious “pay-by-the-hour” motel in a seedy San Francisco neighborhood.
The key problem in relationships, particularly over time, is that people begin to lose their voice.
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This book may save marriages that would ordinarily end in divorce and will create happier, healthier loves for couples who previously felt destined to live together in misery.
You can overcome worry and anxiety today. It is possible to feel better fast―and to make it last. Many people, mental health professionals included, think therapy needs to be long, hard, and painful―a lifelong commitment.