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Patience Is a Skill

By Amy Gross

Someone once said that anger is like drinking poison and hoping your enemy will die. Impatience is similarly ridiculous.

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Just One Thing: Pay Attention!

Moment to moment, the flows of thoughts and feelings, sensations and desires, and conscious and unconscious processes sculpt your nervous system like water gradually carving furrows and eventually gullies on a hillside. Your brain is continually changing its structure.

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Rick Hanson
2015
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The Difference Between Venting and Dumping

We can all get upset at times but there are healthy ways to express frustration and anger. It is important, especially for empaths and sensitive people to be aware of the difference between venting and dumping as the latter can beat down one’s positivity and self worth.

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Judith Orloff
2017
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Grit Trumps Talent and IQ: A Story Every Parent (and Educator) Should Read

Angela Duckworth and her team devise strategies to help students learn how to work hard and adapt in the face of temptation, distraction, and defeat.

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Marguerite del Giudice
2014
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Fear and Anger

However painful our experiences may be, they are just painful experiences until we add the response of aversion or hatred. Only then does suffering arise.

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Jack Kornfield
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Make Space for Practice

If you want to develop the mental focus and flexibility to accomplish more in less time, to stay calm in stressful situations, and to solve problems creatively, take a break and meditate.

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Kelly McGonigal
2009
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The Science of Taming the Wandering Mind

Wherever attention goes the rest of the brain follows—in some sense, attention is your brain’s boss. But is it a good boss and can we train it?

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Amishi Jha
2017
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Why Leaders Need a Triple Focus

Leaders guide attention. But a single-minded focus on goals can run roughshod over human concerns, says Daniel Goleman.

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Daniel Goleman
2014
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Common Misconceptions About Focus

Daniel Goleman, author of Focus, debunks three common myths.

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Daniel Goleman
2014
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The Focused Leader

How effective executives direct their own—and their organizations’—attention.

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Daniel Goleman
2013
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The Answer to Anger and Aggression Is Patience

We can suppress anger and aggression or act it out, either way making things worse for ourselves and others. Or we can practice patience: wait, experience the anger and investigate its nature. Pema Chödrön takes us step by step through this powerful practice.

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Pema Chödrön
2005
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