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Understanding your Brain December 15, 2021 Emotional Intelligence

In the Time Magazine article “Mysteries of the Teenage Brain”. We learn that a teen’s brain will continue to develop well into their mid-twenties.

One of the later areas of the brain to develop is the area that evaluates non-verbal communication. In adults facial expressions are evaluated in the frontal cortex. In teenagers the same pictures are interpreted largely in the amygdala, a primitive structure more directly related to emotion...

Expectations Shape Realizations December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence

I woke up early this morning thinking about a comment made after an all-day program yesterday. She said, “He knows how I am“.

When I think about how I responded to events in my life even just a few years ago, I realize the things I used to believe about myself were not true. It also follows logically then that what I believe about myself right now is not true as well...