Quotes About Response

E-mail response time is the single best predictor of whether employees are satisfied with their boss

if we watch how people's brains respond, promising them monetary rewards and giving them cocaine, nicotine, or amphetamines look disturbingly similar.

Motivation 2.0 is similar. At its heart are two elegant and simple ideas: Rewarding an activity will get you more of it. Punishing an activity will get you less of it.

Rewarding an activity will get you more of it. Punishing an activity will get you less of it.

The goal here is to recognize that slow-moving when problems have all the gravity of fast-moving what calamities—and deserve the same collective response.

Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.

What the hell, I think. My pistol is on my hips and my balls are between my legs.

In a disaster . . . individual personality does not matter. Almost everything you do is going to make it worse. —MICHAEL CRICHTON

There are no truer choices than those made in crisis, choices made without judgment.

Booker T. Washington wrote that "character, not circumstances", makes the person. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character." While character makes for a good story or poem, in reality we are less shaped by character traits than we think, and more than we realize by the circumstances that life deals us - and our responses to those circumstances.

Say yes to the feelings, even as you say no to the behavior.

when a child is upset, logic often won't work until we have responded to the right brain's emotional needs. We

Simply put, reactivity cuts off seeing clearly.

Rather than trying to shelter our children from life's inevitable difficulties, we can help them integrate those experiences into their understanding of the world and learn from them. How our kids make sense of their young lives is not only about what happens to them but also about how their parents, teachers, and other caregivers respond.

They need to know what our expectations are, and how we will respond if they break (or even bend) agreed-upon rules.

when a child is upset, logic often won't work until we have responded to the right brain's emotional needs.

when a child is upset, logic often won't work until we have responded to the right brain's emotional needs. We call this emotional connection "attunement,

Your anger—along with other strong emotions and bodily functions and instincts—springs from your downstairs brain.

The amygdala's job is to quickly process and express emotions, especially anger and fear.

sense of danger, we cannot activate what Porges calls the social engagement system. And we don't access what I've called a self-engagement system either (see

what we do as a result of our emotions that determines whether our behavior is OK or not OK.

upset, logic often won't work until we have responded to the right brain's emotional needs.

del cerebro, sabemos que el hijo de Tina experimentaba grandes oleadas de emociones del cerebro derecho sin el equilibrio lógico proporcionado por el cerebro izquierdo. En un momento así, una de las respuestas menos eficaces que podía dar Tina era ponerse directamente a la defensiva («¡Claro que te hago cosas bonitas!») o

But the more you consider and practice this approach, the more natural and automatic it will become to offer a quick assessment and respond with an intentional response. It can even become your default, your go-to. With practice, these questions can help you remain intentional and receptive in the face of previously reaction-inducing interactions.