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Daniel Siegel, MD, is Clinical Professor of psychiatry at UCLA, Co-Director of Mindful Awareness Research Center, Executive Director of Mindsight Institute, author, and recipient of numerous awards and honorary fellowships. Siegel says (4.6) that when kids develop capacity for reflection they are better able to mention their feelings and then to be able to manage […]

In a book where the subject is maximum positive impact, it’s not surprising that there will be some discussion about motivation. In order to maximize your impact, we need to motivate ourselves but we also often need to motivate other people. What is motivation? Ed Deci is a professor of psychology at University of Rochester

Improving ourselves means having the ability to recognize what is happening, interpreted and make decisions based on our interpretation. This involves an increased level of self-awareness. Mindfulness is a form of self-awareness and mindfulness exercises can help to expand self-awareness. Catherine Kerr, a Ph.D. uses Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and other tools to investigate brain mechanisms underlying

It appears that humans have an optimism bias. Perhaps it can help you to achieve your maximum “optimistic” impact? Tali Sharot is a neuroscientist faculty member of the Department of Cognitive, Perceptual, and Brain Sciences at University College London.  She says (4.4) that 80% of us have what is known as an “optimism bias”. The optimism

There are many references in this book to the fact that living an MPI life means getting as close to nature as possible and being as aligned with nature as possible. This makes sense from an anecdotal experience point of view, however, there is also research that tells us how our immediate environment impacts us.

Maximizing your impact involves self-improvement and self-improvement should include improving our brains. It wasn’t that long ago that scientists thought that the brain stopped developing after the first few years of life. In fact, this is what I was told when I was growing up. I spent the first 30 years of my life believing

If our prime objective is happiness and we know that children seem to be naturally happy then it seems logical that we should try to figure out what we can learn about happiness from children.  One of the more important aspects of being human is curiosity and imagination. The industrial age of the 20th century

Your emotions obviously play a big role in your happiness in the moment and the more you can learn about how to manage your emotions the more you can use positive emotions to your advantage and better manage negative emotions. You probably know that your brain plays a big role in either triggering emotions and

There are countless references in this book to maximizing our positive impact on ourselves and on the people that are most important to us in order to generate doses of happiness. Thankfully, my hypothesis happens to be supported by research. There is research indicating that the people that matter most to us are, in one

It’s difficult to feel happy if you are not satisfied with our self-worth. Maximizing your impact is possibly the most efficient way to maximize your self-worth. What determines your self-worth? I don’t mean generally. I mean you. What is it in your life that you think determines your own self-worth? Take a moment to answer