How to Manage Emotions — Tips From Professional Poker Player Phil Hellmuth
Learning how to manage your emotions helps you make rational decisions and can improve your relationships. Poker is one game that literally “deals” in emotions. Being too emotionally affected by an opponent’s move can lead to very bad choices, often resulting in defeat. There's also the fact that poker players also need to sometimes bluff to win hands sometimes, especially when they're dealt with a bad hand. Hall of Famer Phil Hellmuth once said: “Poker is about understanding human .....
Read MoreAre Successful People More Neurotic?
This was the title of a recent article in the 7 June 2022 edition of Forbes Magazine by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic. The article is excellent. Tomas begins by summarising how we are living under significant social pressures to inhibit their anxieties. Organizations emphatically promote a happiness cult, replacing negative feedback with strengths-based coaching and Chief Happiness Officers. Managers are now hiring for emotional intelligence, grit, and resilience. Tons of self-help column.....
Read MoreMotivation in 2022
In my last blog I discussed McClelland’s Theory of Motivation first postulated in 1961. I am now going to fast forward sixty years till now to consider modern motivation theory. My information is sourced from a recently published book, The Art of Impossible – A Peak Performance Primer by Steven Kotler. To achieve peak performance Kotler advocates a four-step process: Motivation, Learning, Creativity and Flow which he uses to structure the book. Kotler begins his analysis of Mot.....
Read MoreMcClellan’s theory of motivation
My next couple of blogs will be on motivation. I wrote a blog in 2018 about motivation and emotional intelligence: Do You Make This One Big Mistake About Emotional Intelligence? that followed on a blog by Daniel Goleman. This time it was a blog by Rachel Pacheco from the Wharton Business School Motivator in Chief: Getting the Most from Your Team. The blog suggests you play chess not checkers to motivate your team and use McClelland’s Theory of Motivation postulated in 1961.....
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