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.
Dealing with Past Mistakes “Golden Repair”
“Nothing is meaningless… it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.”
~ Bill Crawford
What to Do When You Feel Stressed or Anxious
“All of life is a cycle of cause and effect. In order to break the cycle of stress and frustration we must do more than just change the cause or change the effect… we must become the cause.”
~ Bill Crawford
Avoid This At All Costs!
“If our goal is to be influential, we must first ensure that those we wish to influence can’t put ‘You Stupid Idiot’ on the end of anything we say.”
~ Bill Crawford
Using the Brain to Strengthen Our Immune System and Get to Sleep!
“Neuroscience tells us that our state of mind affects our body’s ability to fight off illness and get the sleep we need. Therefore, we must be purposeful about the former to be effective in the latter.”
~ Bill Crawford