“Believe it or not,” the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker proclaims in his new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, “today we may be living in the most peaceable era in our species’ existence.”See it on Scoop.it, via Radical Compassion

Empathy makes casting moral judgments upon others more complicated and more difficult, because seeing something of our reality in them gives them a context — a “story” like our own, which frames their choices and actions with complexities that bl…

Jim Manske’s insight:Glad to be heading home after a successful hernia repair. We get back to Maui tomorrow.See it on Scoop.it, via Radical Compassion

How and when you “self-talk” can increase your concentration and improve performance…   In the privacy of our minds, we all talk to ourselves — an inner monologue that might seem rather pointless. As one scientific paper on self-talk asks…