September 13, 2025
Life and time
September 13, 2025
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Attention. Energy. Outrage.

What’s Happening to Your Brain, Why, and What You Can Do About It If attention is the substance of life, then the question of what we pay attention to is the question of what our lives will be. Attention was a big deal one week after Trump’s 2025 inauguration when I waved […]
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August 16, 2025
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August 16, 2025
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The Gifted Mind’s Compass: Navigating Purpose and Peace Through Chaos

What’s it like to be you?  You seem to experience great joy and laughter at the same time you express deep exhaustion.  This profound dualism, this constant tension between deep understanding and overwhelming fatigue, is something many of us know intimately. The Weight of Awareness Let’s call this inherent experience what it […]
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June 26, 2025
Decisions
June 26, 2025
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Decision Fatigue

How to Deal with 35,000 Decisions Every Day, Plus AI How did you get this far and achieve so much without knowing about brain science? What more and what better might happen if we looked for neuroscientists and invited them into our community of Gifted Professionals and Communicators? These questions enter my […]
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October 9, 2024
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October 9, 2024
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Two Secrets of High Achievement: Music and Nature

Why is it so difficult to move from thinking to doing? Would you rather read a book and scroll through articles on your phone instead of shutting out distractions to get down to the hard work of creating something or making something out of nothing but your imagination? Would you rather write […]
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July 23, 2024
July 23, 2024
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Finding Joy in Togetherness: The Science of Collective Effervescence

How Synchronized Energy and Community Impact Our Health Do you believe collective effervescence is essential to your health? It is the high you experience with synchronized energy in rituals and traditions, such as the exhilaration at a sports event when everyone gasps and yells at scoring a goal. This happens at weddings […]
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