“Many people persist in the wrong job, trying year after year to get good at what they're bad at or at what they dislike. Like marrying the wrong person, working in the wrong job is a prescription for a life of toil-and-groan.” PeopleTryingDislikePersist Author:Edward Hallowell
“Young people beginning a career need to realize that there are lots of "buses" in life. More often than not, selecting which one to be on determines success or failure, joy or despair.” PeopleJoyRealizingDespairDetermineBusSuccess Or Failure Author:Edward Hallowell
“Fear shuts people down. When you feel safe, your brain is free to soar. When you feel in danger, your brain goes into survival mode, not peak performance mode. Too many people feel unsafe at work, under toxic pressures, and stretched too thin. They are literally about to snap. Within an atmosphere of trust and what I call connection, a supervisor can create conditions under which people's brains can set aside fear and fly high.” PeopleBrainDangerSurvivalAtmosphereSoar Author:Edward Hallowell
“Newcomers should be put in an established position where the expectations are known and help is available. New major assignments should mainly go to people whose behaviors and habits are well known and who have already earned trust and credibility.” PeopleHelpingHabitBehaviorExpectationsWell KnownCredibility Author:Edward Hallowell
“I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is import.” PeopleAgree Author:Edward Hallowell
“Modern loneliness is an extraverted loneliness, in which the person is surrounded by many people and partakes of much communication but feels unrecognized and more alone and, although connected technically, isolated and even estranged emotionally.” PeopleModernLonelinessCommunication Author:Edward Hallowell
“From the biological standpoint, people deprived of the human moment in their day-to-day business dealings, actually in all domains of their lives, are losing brain cells - literally - while those who cultivate the human moment are growing them.” PeopleMomentsBrainLosing Author:Edward Hallowell
“People associate hard work and overload with stress. But, like suffering, stress is complicated. Bad stress is stress that a system can't endure without suffering damage. It is unplanned, uncontrolled, allows no time for rest and recovery, and exceeds the capacity of the system to adjust to it. As the popular phrase suggests, it burns people out and, over time, it can decimate an entire workforce.” PeopleSufferingHard WorkStressEndureComplicatedRecovery Author:Edward Hallowell
