54 Articles tagged with: Personal Growth

• THE LAST DECADE: My Glorious Failures

  Try again. Fail again. Try better. – Samuel Beckett

  We all love to announce publicly our most glorious moments and accomplishments. However, a life best lived is a hero’s journey, a journey in which we must overcome great obstacles and… Read Article

• The Super Bowls of Your Life

  The fervor that is American professional football culminates this week in the Super Bowl championship game. Each club and each player earned their resultant place in the game based on their positive performance over a period in their life. This en… Read Article

• Why Do New Year's Resolutions Often Fail?

  (Edited from original article published on March 7th, 2010.)

  If you are like many people, you made some resolutions to improve your life in some way in the new year. Maybe you resolved to quit smoking, eat less, or exercise more. Maybe… Read Article

• Five Ayn Rand Questions for Ray Raad

  1) Tell us who you are? What’s the couple of sentence summary of what you do and what you’ve done?

  I’m a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City. I spend most of my time working with a variety of interesting people who are struggl… Read Article

• Epilepsy and Consciousness

  When I was 21 years old I was diagnosed with epilepsy. Though the news was upsetting, I was relieved it wasn’t a brain tumor. But as I realized the seriousness of the diagnosis, I also came to appreciate how wonderful consciousness and the abili… Read Article

• Can Individualism Cure Loneliness?

  The Los Angeles Times recently highlighted a study published in Heart, a British Medical Journal publication, that found loneliness can increase the risk of coronary heart disease and stroke by 50%.

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• Ayn Rand Diet Plan: Fad Diets, Fat-acceptance Are Anti-Reality

  “A is A. All the pain has come from the effort to evade the fact that A is A.”

  These are the words of John Galt in Atlas Shrugged, summing up the core tenet of the Objectivist philosophy pioneered by the novel’s author, Ayn Rand. If … Read Article

• Unleashing the power of philosophy in business

  What comes to mind when you hear the word "philosophy"? Bearded men in robes walking around in ancient Greece? Academics having abstract conversations that have no practical entrepreneurial use? Or profound advantage through effective strategic th… Read Article

• Living an Extraordinary Life | A profile of Lauren Zander

  The biggest moment of her life was about to arrive, and Katie Torpey didn’t even care. It was a Saturday night in Los Angeles, and Katie and her husband had dinner plans with friends. Katie, an award-winning screenwriter, was about to have h… Read Article

• Aspiration

  Aspiration is the essence of what we call “the human spirit,” as reflected in many common sayings: Nothing ventured, nothing gained; The best is yet to be; Aim for the stars. Aspiration is what moves entrepreneurs to take risks for a new idea,… Read Article

• The Technology of Celebration

  Have you ever asked yourself exactly what it means to “celebrate” something or someone? If you are like most of us, the answer is “no.” Yet celebration is the very sustenance that drives our lives and motivation—in every arena.

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• Impulses, Reactions, and Long-term Goals

  Atlas Summit 2015 -- You want to lose weight, but you’re too tempted by sweet and fatty foods; you want to exercise, but you never feel like it; you want to be more productive at work, but you keep being drawn to unnecessary e-mails or intriguin… Read Article

• Self-Esteem is not Comparative

  Is it narcissism to think you are better than other people at something? Is it self-esteem to just regard yourself as one of the herd?

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• Marsha Enright and the Great Connections Seminars

  Colleges do a pretty good job of teaching calculus and the Krebs Cycle. They know how to test what you’ve learned. They grant diplomas, which can be important for finding a job. But do they teach you how to gain the knowledge and skills to tak… Read Article

• Inner Life | Allan Blumenthal

  This December 14, 1991 talk by psychiatrist and concert pianist Allan Blumenthal shows how the heightened awareness of inner experience enriches the enjoyment of life. The talk was prepared by both Allan Blumenthal and his wife, artist Joan Mitc… Read Article

• Objectivism and the Psychology of Self-Esteem - Nathaniel Branden

  At our organization’s 1996 Summer Seminar, in Boulder, Colorado, Nathaniel Branden made the first of many appearances at our events. This lecture was also a first on a larger scale, as he acknowledged in his opening words:

  "This is the very f… Read Article

• Nathaniel Branden Remembered

  I first met Nathaniel Branden, who passed away this morning, in fall 1983. I had successfully passed my Ph.D. oral defense of dissertation that morning, so except for shuffling paperwork, I was now “Doctor Hudgins.” … Read Article

• Implications of Inherent Differences in Temperament

  Atlas Summit 2014 -- Temperament often has been treated as the most elusive, undefinable—even ineffable—of human personality traits. In fact, though, temperament has become one of the best-understood aspects of human personality thanks to th… Read Article

• The Value of Play

  Atlas Summit 2014 --  Work and career are central values in Objectivism. Play doesn’t get a lot of focus in Ayn Rand’s fiction or in Objectivist philosophy. Play, though, offers many positive benefits and is a ubiquitous feature of human ci… Read Article

• Developing Self Awareness

  Atlas Summit 2014 -- The approach to life that Ayn Rand recommended requires knowing ourselves well, in order to make good and appropriate decisions about how to lead our lives. What does it mean to understand ourselves? And how can we go about … Read Article