Leadership is about pushing new ideas; it is about mobilizing and motivating people and getting them to act as a collective team. It’s about projecting commitment and expressing enthusiasm to get ...

The power of gratitude can be underestimated, especially during the holidays. Author Janice Kaplan's "The Gratitude Diaries" was a New York Times Bestseller, and now she has released a new book that ...

A few years back, I wrote a couple of pieces for this blog on how to change people’s minds, even if what they believe is categorically wrong. Cook and Lewandowsky’s (2011) debunking handbook was ...

Is there anything people can do to start to restore some sanity and have actually productive conversations with people you disagree with? Yup, answer psychologists. Their advice isn’t always easy to ...

Q: How do I change someone’s mind? A: This is a billion-dollar question that companies, politicians, and spouses the world over want to answer. And I hate to break it to you, but if you want to ...

After the contestant chooses, say, option B, the host reveals one of the remaining choices (say C) does not contain the prize. In the final step, the contestant is asked whether they want to change ...

I was reading something recently that suggested that being willing and able to change your mind is an important part of healthy aging. But the article tied the ability to change your mind to the word ...

When I’m teaching new poets about how to think about where a poem might be inside themselves, I often offer up the sonnet “Bright Star,” by John Keats. It begins: For those who don’t know the sonnet ...

Editor’s note: Opinion content is solely the opinion of the writer and not the Daily Journal. Readers frequently offer advice on my columns, with a common theme of helping me be more persuasive. I ...

Imagine a game show where the host asks the contestant to randomly pick one option out of three: A, B or C. After the contestant chooses, say, option B, the host reveals one of the remaining choices ...