Our Frame of Mind = Our Frame of Reference
“Our frame of mind is determined by our frame of reference… best to create both of these by choice versus by chance.”
~ Bill Crawford
The Neuroscience of Defensiveness & Conflict Resolution
“When people are being defensive, they aren’t just defending their position, they are defending their judgement… they are defending themselves!”
~ Bill Crawford
The Most Powerful Part of the Brain is Unconscious!
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will control your life!”
~ Carl Jung
The Neuroscience of Influence
“While we are not responsible for other people’s reactions, we do play a role in how their brain interprets what we do and say, and this will determine our influence.”
~ Bill Crawford
The Neuroscience of Self-Righteousness
“Self-righteousness isn’t about confidence. It’s a reaction designed to protect someone from the fear of what it would mean to be wrong.”
~ Bill Crawford
Why We Let Little Things Bug Us – & What To Do About It!
“Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One More Way to Affect Others
“Our ’emotional wake’ is how we affect others after we have left the room. Let’s make sure we are creating this effect on purpose.”
~ Bill Crawford
Dealing with Disappointment
“There are too many people in the world today who decide to live disappointed rather than risk feeling disappointment.”
~ Brené Brown
Justifiable Anger!
“Physiologically, it simply doesn’t matter whether our anger or resentment is justified. The body doesn’t make moral judgments about feelings… it just reacts.”
~ Adapted from Doc Lew Childre, Jr.