Negotiation in the best of circumstances is a delicate balance and often nerve-wracking for all parties involved. But attempting to make deals with difficult, uncooperative parties can quickly ...

We all must cope with change in our lives. We know it will come. Some change can be overwhelming, even frightening. It can also be abrupt, not planned or expected, so you can’t prepare. Change can add ...

The fictional hero Tom Sawyer was highly skilled at reframing a situation. When Sawyer was forced to spend a holiday whitewashing a fence, his friends teased him, because he had to work while they ...

We tend to treat procrastination as an enemy. The Lex Luther to our Superman, so to speak. We call it laziness, lack of discipline, or even a personal failing. So it’s not surprising productivity ...

For many of us, our natural instinct when feeling anxious is to try to escape the feeling entirely. We use relaxation techniques, such as deep breathing exercises, in an attempt to calm down and ...

At the moment, we are facing a global crisis with the coronavirus pandemic, which is causing a lot of worry. We as adults find ourselves frightened, and we know our children are feeling the same way.

Not long ago, as I was writing this column, an ominous “winter storm warning” had been issued for the mountains of western North Carolina where I was visiting. My heart rate went up as I worried what ...

You did not receive an invitation to an event. We all develop beliefs about why certain things happen at the instance they occur. This may cause anger, sadness, rejection, and may result in negative ...

My take: Current AI systems use a technique called ‘reinforcement learning,’ which adapts the AI’s strategy in its pursuit to maximize a reward. Mistakes, in this sense, are accounted for and form an ...