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Human beings are astoundingly attuned to subtle emotional shifts in the people (and animals) around them.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein (Vintage)
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In some schools, social and emotional learning, or SEL, has been implemented as a strategy to equip students with the emotional and psychological skills that will critically affect achievement both in and outside of the classroom. These schools, such as Garfield Elementary in Oakland, California, and Leataata Floyd Elementary in Sacramento, conside
... See moreLance Izumi • Moonshots in Education: Launching Blended Learning in the Classroom
Even scientists who are most concerned with assessing individual differences in personality would concede that our ability to predict how particular people will respond in particular situations is very limited. This “predictability ceiling” is typically reflected in a maximum statistical correlation of .30 between measured individual differences on
... See moreLee Ross • The Person and the Situation
RULER curriculum, in when he teaches people a set of emotional skills: how to Recognize, Understand, Label, Express, and Regulate their emotions.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
It turned out that if they were talking about the mindstate of someone not present, there were never more than three people involved in the conversation; if they were talking about the mindstate of a member of the conversation group, or some factual issue like where to go for lunch or the lecture they had just been to, then four was the limit.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Daniel continuously asks himself: Whom is this person responding to or used to performing for? Whom do they view as important to impress? Their parents? A particular peer? High school friends? A former boss?
Daniel Gross • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
Talking about children but also, unfortunately, adults sometimes, Dr. Becky explains that the tantrum or the thrown punch or the big mistake is not the main event. “It was a window into the main event,” she writes. “Behavior, in all its forms, is a window: into the feelings, thoughts, urges, sensations, perceptions, and unmet needs of a person. Beh
... See moreIt clarified why knowing that we are seen and heard by the important people in our lives can make us feel calm and safe, and why being ignored or dismissed can precipitate rage reactions or mental collapse.