by Jeff Price | Mar 28, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
As a result of standardized testing and the importance placed on performing well, there is the strong potential that we have plenty of wasted intelligence out in the world. Many parents like to find out that their child is special – of course, because who wants...
by Jeff Price | Mar 26, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
I love stories about successful people – well, I guess that stands to reason as people typically don’t pay thousands of dollars to hear about someone who is a failure. However, what we often find out is that when we read or hear about successful people,...
by Jeff Price | Mar 25, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
What are the consequences of believing that your intelligence or personality is fixed, rather than something that you can develop and expand over time? That is the fundamental question posed by Doctor Carol Dweck in Mindset: The New Psychology of...
by Jeff Price | Mar 24, 2013 | Life & Career Success, Parenting
One of the hardest things I’ve found when trying to be a good parent is NOT helping my kids. Letting kids try and fail and try again is part of their learning process, otherwise, they may not develop the skills they need to survive in the real world. More coping...
by Jeff Price | Mar 23, 2013 | Life & Career Success, Parenting
Remember when you knew everything – yea, me too. I was 17. Then years later, do you also remember how you felt when you learned just how little you actually knew at 17? Yes, the teenage years – when the parental “godlike” image is shattered...
by Jeff Price | Mar 22, 2013 | Life & Career Success, Parenting
Welcome to middle school. The younglings are becoming little adults – middle schoolers are not as cute as children or as fascinating as teens, says Madeline Levin, author of Teach Your Children Well. Welcome to acne too! We’re talking about the ages of...
by Jeff Price | Mar 21, 2013 | Life & Career Success, Parenting
One thing that’s oddly both refreshing and disturbing about young kids is their selective truth filter. On one occasion one of my sons cut off another kid on the way to the water fountain, right in front of mom. When she said his name, the beginning of the...
by Jeff Price | Mar 20, 2013 | Life & Career Success, Parenting
Growing up watching the likes of Batman, Superman, The Flash, Aquaman (what was his skill set again?), and the rest of the Justice League, plus Spiderman and the Fantastic Four, we all dreamed of having superpowers. We actually do – and so do our kids. We just...
by Jeff Price | Mar 18, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Happiness, Life & Career Success
The lovers smile and embrace, the dog runs to them eagerly and they all turn and watch the sunset, ‘and they lived happily ever after.’ Yea, whatever. The problem with every movie is that the movie ends where love begins. Even the movies like “Hall...
by Jeff Price | Mar 15, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Happiness, Life & Career Success
In his book, Man’s Search for Meaning, author Victor Frankl talks about how some victims of the Holocaust were able to find meaning in their lives. Frankl’s book is now very well known, as is his strategy for surviving one of the worst travesties in the...
