Dec 3, 2021 |
“Coaching is asking. It’s even better when you don’t know how to do that person’s job because they work in a different industry to you. All you can do is ask and that is pure coaching. It’s an 80-20 ratio of speaking to listening – 80...
Nov 19, 2021 |
“As cognitive psychologists we are very much interested in these unconscious processes. Most of the processes that are involved to create your reality you are not consciously aware of. There are more computations that happen in our...
Nov 5, 2021 |
“I write a lot about stuckness – it’s not just how bad the thing is but whether it’s changeable and flexible – whether the patient is at least occasionally able to get out of that perspective and see things differently. For patients who are...
Oct 22, 2021 |
“We used [open-label placebo] in kids with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and the interesting thing about these patients is that they were only allowed to enroll in our study at Boston Children’s if all other treatments had failed. Basically, we...
Oct 8, 2021 |
“[Springsteen’s book] is about rock and roll; it’s about the joy of music; and it’s about clinical depression. He weaves these together and Springsteen is not only a great example of how someone can live a creative life while enduring this...
Sep 24, 2021 |
“The first pillar is relaxed awareness – we talk about it as the fundamental state of mind and body that is the basis of attunement. Listening is the taking in of cues and information from the other person. Understanding is cognitively processing...
