When I was a junior in high school, one morning I got picked up for truancy at the local pool hall. Recalling my brunch club visit to the vice-principal’s office, two things stand out. One was Mr. Kennedy looking at my three foot long, thin leather cue case and asking, “What’s in there?” “A pool cue,” [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Appreciating Exceptional Brains
Posted in Uncategorized on November 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Tao of Listening
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alfred Tomatis, Bonnie Badenoch, Heartmath Institute, Peter Senge, Right Listening, Tao of Listening on November 20, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I’ve been researching, teaching and practicing listening skills for more than two decades now. In that time, during which I’ve published five books on listening, three things have become abundantly clear. First, most people are surprised to learn how profoundly different simple hearing and deeply listening really are … and how poorly most of us perform the [...]
How a Good Chief Executive Brain Goes Bad
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alice Walker, Allostatic load, Dan Siegel, Executive Function, Obama, stress on November 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When I was a kid, the great dream was to one day grow up and become President of the United States of America. Little did we realize the stress inherent in the job as inferred by this open letter from Alice Walker to our new president-elect. She apparently realizes, much like working neuroscientists, that if [...]
Easing a Mind that Binds
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged amygdala, Joseph LeDoux, Marshall Rosenberg, Pink Panther, Richard Heckler, unthought known on November 9, 2008 | 6 Comments »
In the mid-sixties, the comedic actor, Peter Sellers played the role of hapless French detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau in the popular Pink Panther movies. In those movies, when he would least expect it, Clouseau would be unexpectedly attacked by his man-servant, Cato Fong (Cato has since been replaced in the 2006 Pink Panther remake by [...]
