by Debra Beaulieu The importance of strong physician-patient communication has been well documented, as have the challenges. But a new tool, called narrative medicine, may offer a way for physicians to better connect to their patients by changing the way they listen to their stories. “What patients complain about the most is, ‘My doctor doesn’t [...]…
“Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity…The moment you decide to be realistic you can pretty much guarantee that is what will happen…”-Will Smith Is anyone else tired of being realistic? A saboteur (or gremlin) is a self limiting voice that whispers into our mind. The saboteur is the voice that “shoulds” on [...]…
In today’s excerpt – our memory works in such a way that things that happen to us in one moment influence our behavior after that in ways we don’t realize. It is a process psychologists refer to as priming, and it suggests, for example, that adopting positive language and mannerisms can in fact make us more [...]…
In 1946, Solomon Asch did an experiment in which he created 2 lists of attributes that describe an individual. The 2 lists had the same attributes: intelligent, skillful, industrious, determined, practical, and cautious. However list A had one additional attribute: warm, and list B had the additional attribute: cold. After 2 separate groups of people [...]…