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Did you know that resilience was somebody’s job? I stumbled upon a fascinating study in the international journal of management about the construct of organizational resilience. In the last few decades, this phenomenon has gained new momentum in academic literature, mainstream media and business publications. Numerous researchers revealed that companies, institutions and other entitles can survive and thrive amidst adversity or turbulence. As long as there are dedicated team…

People can spend an inordinate amount time worrying about, analyzing, and trying to understand or clarify particular thoughts and themes. They’ll engage in this exhausting a repetitive negative thought process that loops continuously in their mind without end or completion. As if replaying a certain scenario enough times could somehow change its outcome. Like the single woman who keeps reading the same text message over and over again, searching…

Innovation hinges on the ability to ask one crucial question. What if? It’s the fundamental thought experiment that challenges assumptions, explores possibilities and drives human imagination. Take a glance at your surroundings right now, and you’ll seen hundreds of objects that only exist because somebody somewhere asked the question, what if. As an example, on desk at this very moment is a bottle of sparkling water. But it’s not…

A social experiment is a type of research. In fields like psychology and sociology, scientists are seeing how people behave in certain situations and respond to particular policies or programs. They divide individuals into two groups. Active participants, those who take action in an event, and respondents, those who react to the action, often who are unaware they’re part of the experiment. The goal, of course, is to monitor…

A filter is a way of viewing our experience of reality. It’s a tool that frames our observations about the world and ultimately gives us better results than we would have without it. And there are as many filters as there are people to see through them. We can create and deploy as many of them as we want, once we discover how the filter creation process works. Below…

Let’s talk about the things we hide behind. There are so many ways to avoid being seen, noticed or interacted with in this world. And each tactic is more fascinating and seductive than the next. That’s human nature for you. We’re all expert at using things to protect ourselves from criticism, punishment and vulnerability. We have been conditioned to quell many of our top fears, like the fear of…

Do you know someone who needs to check in over and over again to make sure everything is okay? Someone whose repetitive need for reassurance drives all of your interactions? It’s totally exasperating when you’re on the receiving end of it. Particularly when someone’s level of distress is high. People’s reassurance compulsion often goes up when their life is coming apart at the seams, so they work overtime to…

Broken hearts come from emotionally over investing. We decide that someone or something is the one. This is going to complete us and make us whole and change everything, so we place a dangerously high level of importance on it in our lives. This over investment gives that person or thing complete power over our emotions. But the joke’s on us. Because we are the ones who break our…

If something helps you secure a measure of control in a world of chaos, then it’s worth doing. Even if that sense of control is delusional, it still provides utility value. Because feeling able to influence your reality in any way is deeply motivating and satisfying. My therapist once told me, control may be an illusion, but empowerment isn’t. Meaning, if you believe that you have a role in…

Some people wake up in the morning fraught with potential crises. They constantly feel that the bottom is about to fall out. Minor details that would be nonissues to others seem like insurmountable hurdles to them. Having to cope with life’s daily events is a second full time job. And they’re either late, afraid of being late, or freaking out because they were late. As a result of this…