Brain, Emotional intelligence

Decisions, decisions: How to make a good decision

While we’re on the subject of making decisions, my good friend, and Informal Learning expert, Paul Matthews wrote about this story in his recent newsletter: A man in Gandhi’s entourage was forever complaining about this, that, and the other. Finally, Gandhi said to him… “If it is a peaceful and calm life [...]

Emotional intelligence

The Chimp Paradox – Managing the Chimp

As you know, in “The Chimp Paradox”. Dr Steve Peters calls the emotional brain, the part that tells us how we feel, the “Chimp”. He likens the Chimp to owning a dog. You’re not responsible for the personality of the dog, but you are responsible for keeping it well behaved [...]

Emotional intelligence

The Chimp Paradox

The brain is a complex animal! As I describe in my Automatic Weight Loss online Training, for all our sophisticated science, much of it still remains a mystery. Fortunately, for our purposes, there are just 3 areas we’re interested in, and the roles of these three areas are very elegantly [...]