Sometimes, When I’m Alone, I Search Inside Myself (Part II)

(Continued from Part I) In Part I, we described the 3 principles behind Search Inside Yourself (SIY), Google’s homegrown program for developing Emotional Intelligence: 1. Emotional skills are trainable 2. EI training starts with attention training 3. Work with...

Sometimes When I’m Alone, I Search Inside Myself (Part I)

(For the story on what motivated us to create Search Inside Yourself, see this post: “Three Easy Steps to World Peace”) Search Inside Yourself (SIY) is Google’s homegrown Emotional Intelligence (EI) curriculum.  It was created in Google with...

Collection of Personal Growth Talks

Here is a collection of some of the most popular publicly-accessible talks in Google relating to personal growth.  This list is compiled by my very capable associate, Jenny Lykken, who works with me in Google University’s School of Personal Growth. Neuroscience...

Funny Thought: Lie your way to physical attractiveness

If you lie about something often enough, it eventually becomes the truth.  The Bush Administration has already demonstrated this to perfection, of course. Based on this insight, I’m conducting a psychological experiment.  The experiment is I take a generic,...

Random Thought: When I become CEO, you get to slap me for $100

When I become the founding CEO of a company (which will soon grow into a large and very successful enterprise, of course), there are 3 principles I want to institute: 1. Compassion as the Prime Directive 2. Make it impossible for the CEO to ignore employee sentiment...