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Can Compassion Be Taught?
Written by Julissa Trevino. By now, the news cycle is familiar: The United States is using tear gas on asylum seekers. Hundreds of migrant children remain separated from their families. A professor’s office is vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti. It’ …
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Going Back to the Future: Designing Organizational Cultures of Compassion, Wisdom and Well-Being
Written by Sesil Pir. On October 25, the New York Times published an article on the misconducts that led to the largest employee protest in the history of Google. Two days later, my husband, who is a technical leader at the company, came home demoraliz …
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In Medicine, the “Soft” Skills are Essential
Written by Margaret Cary, MD. Michael’s Story: The Beginning “I’m straightforward, to the point,” said Michael, the CEO at a large inner-city hospital. “The people I work with—they may not like me, but they know I’m right.” “What else?” I said to Micha …
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BTS Radio UK: Interview with Dr. James Doty
Written by Shinara Hussain, Robyn Sneddon, Shufei Chen and Ethan Horton. With the release of the new BTS album Love Yourself: Tear, came the song entitled ‘Magic Shop’. A track that’s touched the hearts of ARMY around the globe. Like most of BTS releas …
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How to Practice Gratitude in a Not-Cheesy Way Because It Actually Feels Pretty Good
Written by Carolyn de Lorenzo. While there are a million and one reasons to practice gratitude throughout the day, you’re probably thinking, if one more person tells you to start a gratitude journal, you might actually want to scream into your pillow. …
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This 32-Minute Morning Routine Can Make Your Day More Happy and Less Stressed
Written by Katie Avis-Riordan. If you regularly get up on the wrong side of the bed, feeling groggy and grumpy, there may be a quick and easy solution to your mood woes. According to science, there is a specific morning routine which makes sure your da …
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What Warren Buffett Taught Bill Gates About Managing Time by Sharing His (nearly) Blank Calendar
Written by Catherine Clifford. With more than $88 billion to his name, there isn’t much Warren Buffett couldn’t buy. Except, as the now 88-year-old CEO and chairman of Berkshire Hathaway is keenly aware, there is one thing his fortune won’t help him ge …
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This 32-Minute Morning Routine is the Best Way to Start Your Day, According to Science
Written by Marcel Schwantes. Are you on the path to personal mastery and self-improvement? If so (and I hope you are), I want to offer you a powerful daily morning routine that has four key themes: giving, gratitude, breathing, and growing (in that ord …
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The Alphabet of the Heart
Dr. James Doty created a mnemonic called, “The Alphabet of the Heart”, to be used as a meditation exercise. It’s a reminder of 10 steps along the journey towards compassion and mindfulness. To download the poster, click here.
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If You’re Angry at Work, You Shouldn’t Pretend Everything is Okay – Do These 6 Simple Things Instead
Written by Rachel Premack. When it comes to negative emotions like sadness, anxiety, or anger, one common course of action is to try ignoring them. But Deanna Geddes, a professor at Temple University’s Fox School of Business, recommends the opposite. ” …
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MY HERO Project: Interview with Dr. James Doty
Written by Wendy Jewell. James Doty, M.D., FACS, FICS is a professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University and founder and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, a part of the Stanford School of Medicine and an affi …
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Dr. James Doty Speaks at Blockchain For Good Conference
Blockchain For Good is a think tank which brings together the greatest minds around the world, all there to debate how blockchain can serve the greater good for humanity, society, the economy, and our environment. This recent third roundtable event was …
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Three Key Conditions to Create a Healthy Workplace
Written by Dr. Bill Morrison. Current research underscores the importance of creating workplace cultures that foster the psychological health and wellness of employees within their team and work environments. Healthy workplaces support employee wellbei …
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Why Happiness, Not Stress, is Key to Success
Written by Valerie Bisharat. No pain, no gain. Sleep can wait. Suffer now, prosper later. Although slightly hyperbolic, these maxims influence how many of us think about achieving success in our lives and careers. Put your head down and defer happiness …
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After BTS Used this Stanford Professor’s Book as Inspiration, It Became a Bestseller in Korea
Written by Ikran Dahir. BTS’s latest album, Love Yourself: Tear, features a song called “Magic Shop”. Before the song came out, it was hinted at in a live performance in December 2017 with the quote, “A magical time is coming. Come to the Magic Shop. N …
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How to Worry Less, Ease Anxiety and Tame Toxic Thoughts
Written by A. Pawlowski. Life would be so much different without a wall of worry in the way. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, bringing attention to the one in five Americans who experiences a mental health condition. For many people, the overwhelm …
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7 Secrets Newlyweds Need to Know for a Long-Lasting Marriage
Written by Anna Papachristos. As wedding season approaches, couples across the country are scrambling to put the finishing touches on their impending ceremony — but a wedding and a marriage are two entirely separate entities. With that in mind, married …
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Why Being Compassionate – Instead of Ruling with an Iron Fist – Can Make You a Better Boss
Written by Meera Jagannathan. Compassion as a management strategy — as opposed to ruling with an iron fist — has been shown to boost employee trust, loyalty and retention. “Compassionate leaders create a positive and caring workplace culture,” psycholo …
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Kindness and Compassion Help Cancer Patients Speed Up Healing Process, Reduce Pain: Review
Written by Rubi Valdez. Basic acts of kindness and compassion for cancer patients can go a long way, especially in speeding up their healing process and reducing pain. In 2014, Dignity Health, in partnership with Stanford University Center for Compassi …
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Cooper Doctors Study ‘Compassion Crisis’ in Health Care
Written by Stacey Burling. Stephen Trzeciak’s obsession with compassion started with his son’s seventh-grade cultural geography assignment three years ago. The son asked the father, a critical-care doctor at Cooper University Hospital, for help with a …
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Meditation Makes You Better at Everything – Including Work
Written by Laurie Cameron. Mindfulness, the practice of training the mind to focus and be present in the moment, is becoming a major force for positive change in our lives at work. Corporate leaders such as Google and Target are offering their employee …
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Can Meditation Save Your Relationship? (Science Says Yes)
Written by Lena Franklin. Mindfulness and meditation are all about cultivating an intimate relationship with yourself and the present moment, but these practices also boast transformative benefits for intimacy with your partner. Relationship intimacy i …
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The Eyes May Be the Window to the Soul, But Science is Showing the Ears May Be the Route to Our Hearts
Written by Emma Seppala. In workplaces and families across the world, communication has gone online. We send texts and endless emails; we video chat rather than travel across town to meet. Actually sitting down and interacting with someone in person ca …
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Parents Guide: Turning Compassion into Action
At GoFundMe, we know that parents and caregivers have an incredibly important job: raising the future generation. And especially in recent years, parents have said that above all, they simply wish for their kids to be kind. Every day, we see amazing ki …
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11 Signs You’re Going to Be Even More Successful than You Think
Written by Shana Lebowitz. We tend to underestimate ourselves. We look at CEOs, or people with billions of dollars in the bank, and see them as way more successful than we are. But if you’re pursuing your passions, if you’re learning, and if you’re for …
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