Self-esteem has long been touted as a key ingredient for success. But psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson says on her The Science of Success blog that recent research suggests high self-esteem does not predict better performance or greater success, even if people with high self esteem may believe they’re more successful. But research also suggest a substitute that may be the key to unlocking your potential for greatness: self-compassion.
Harvey Schachter
This article demonstrates how lessons of placebo effect can support people in creating “compassion placebos” and living more compassionate and loving lives… Each of us has all the tools we need to bring compassion into our lives and the world. A…
Views on Empathy, Curiosity, Creativity, Faith, Tolerance, and Obedience Across the Ideological SpectrumThe data also present a familiar caricature of “liberals” and “conservatives.” Based on a longer survey that classified respondents along an ideolog…
What is empathy? It is usually defined as the ability to ‘identify with’ another person. It seems to involve having a good sense of what the other person is feeling, and not merely with an air of scientific detachment, but knowing in the se…
“Alternative practitioners tend to express empathy, to allow for unhurried silences and to ask what meaning patients make of their pain,” Johnson writes, and their clients feel better for it. “Suffering people reflexively seek care, but in mainstream m…
