1: “There’s a little gap, no more than a millisecond, between the moment a thought arises and the moment our brain attaches an emotion to that thought,” Steven Kotler writes in The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer.

If we are interested in manifesting the grit to control our thoughts, then we are wise to pay attention to that gap.

Because once a feeling is attached to a … continue reading

For years, I heard people I respect admire talk about the power of meditation.  Occasionally, I would try it out, but it never stuck.  I wasn’t very good at blocking out my thoughts.  And the idea of achieving inner peace seemed a bit “woo-woo” to me.

Then, I had the opportunity to attend a Dallas Conscious Capitalism workshop on leadership led by Dr. Daniel Friedland, author of Leading Well from … continue reading