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Opinion: Appreciating small gestures in dark times By Deborah DiSesa Hirsch   Updated  8:03 am EDT, Sunday, June 14, 2020             Photo: Frances Thiel / Houston Chronicle Illustration for business story, 02/22/2007: good deeds, kindness at the office This is my coronavirus story. On a recent Friday night, my son and his best friend were sitting in a car talking when a policeman pulled up. I can understand. They were sitting in the car at Newfield Elementary School just shooting the breeze and it was probably not a good place to be. He asked what they were doing and they told him, just catching up. He asked for licenses and they turned them over. He searched the car and the trunk and finding nothing, he returned the friend’s license and they drove off. It was only when my son got home that he realized he didn’t have his license. For more, go to  https://www.stamfordad...

I admit it.  I was a toilet paper hoarder . (Read this if you want to know just how much: https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/opinion/article/Opinion-Coronavirus-draws-out-my-inner-hoarder-15156319.php ) In any event, a new study says that personality traits can be linked to personality traits . According to newswise.com, " People who feel more threatened by COVID-19 and rank highly on scales of emotionality and c onscientiousness were most likely to stockpile toilet paper in March 2020, says a new study published by Lisa Garbe (University of Saint Gallen, Switzerland), Richard Rau (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster, Germany), and Theo Toppe (the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany)." Following the fast spread of COVID-19 across Europe and North America in March 2020, many people began stockpiling commodities including toilet paper. Some companies reported an increase of up to 700% in toiled paper sales, despite calls from the govern...

It's not brain surgery.  But if you want to succeed at everything you do?  Listen up. We've heard it all.  Meditate.  Live in the moment.  Get enough sleep.  Accomplish the goals you -- and your boss-- set out for yourself.   Maybe even over-perform. But what if there were a mindset you could develop that would allow you to succeed forever? Well, now, a new study reports that we also need one additional "important psychological tool, a  “strategic mindset” , according to newswise.com. The study found that those who ask, "How else can I do this?" or "Is there a better way to do this," rather than just doing what they've always done to achieve success make out far better. But it's not just work that these kinds of people use this mindset for.  Stanford University psychologists report that this research shows that, as a result, people with this mindset "tend to apply more effective strategies when working towards their goals i...

It's no surprise that many people's jobs are killing them. Not actually, of course.  Just spiritually, but that's enough. Stress , lack of autonomy and ability can lead to depression and death . This, of course, is not new.  But has it changed, now that people are working from home?   A new study from the Indiana University   Kelley School of Business   finds that "our mental health and mortality have a strong correlation with the amount of autonomy we have at our job, our workload and job demands, and our cognitive ability to deal with those demands" according to newswise.com. "When job demands are greater than the control afforded by the job or an individual's ability to deal with those demands, there is a deterioration of their mental health and, accordingly, an increased likelihood of death," the website quotes  Erik Gonzalez-Mulé , assistant professor of organizational behavior and human resources at the Kelley School and the paper...