Foresight is our ability to see patterns that will influence our future. It’s an important trait behind success and motivation. How many steps can you think ahead?…
The way we think of past events in our lives is very flexible and subject to change. We can take this flexible nature of our minds and use it to process negative memories in different ways that benefit us instead of holding us back….
Focus on positive memories Focusing on positive memories can be a great way of staying motivated and committed toward our long-term goals and values. In a 2011 issue of Psychological Science, researchers discovered that loyal baseball fans are more likely to remember details of events when their team won, rather than when their team lost....
There was an interesting study recently published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Researchers at the University of Montreal’s Center for Studies on Human Stress tested to see the effects of cortisol (“the stress hormone,” commonly associated with our body’s fight-or-flight response) on participant’s memories of an emotional event. The experimenters had participants...
