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...this book, written by Jon and Eileen Gallo, husband (he's an estate-planning attorney) and wife (she's a psychotherapist), who have spent the past 17 years raising their three kids. And I came away cautiously optimistic. The Gallos, it turns out, are realists. They believe it's normal for children to want everything they see on TV. They know that kids can be relentless. And they're not of the opinion that money is a bad thing; quite the opposite in fact. "We tell people money never hurt anyone," says Jon Gallo. "It's money without values that...
...much larger than those of their unaffected peers. Perhaps they just had more fear circuits to contend with? Neuroscientists are tempted to say yes, but they admit the conclusion is pretty speculative. Another group of researchers found that patients with post-traumatic stress disorder had a smaller hippocampus than normal. Perhaps their stressful experiences had somehow interfered with the hippocampus' ability to make new memories and, just as important, forget the old ones? Again, no one knows for sure...
...into dangerous situations--fire fighters, say, or police officers. Then it may be possible to determine if any changes in their brains are the result of traumatic situations or if the changes predate them. Either is plausible. The stress of surviving a building collapse, for example, could turn a normal amygdala into an overactive one. Or an already overactive amygdala may overwhelm the brain in the wake of a disaster...
What Inwald looks for--and warns companies to be wary of too--is people whose numbers exceed the normal curve. These are the applicants who are trying to come across as unusually, perhaps unrealistically, qualified--an effort that can be disastrous and transparent. "I was interviewing one person whose resume claimed he spoke fluent Spanish," Inwald says. "I began talking to him in my more rudimentary Spanish, and even I recognized that he was answering in only the present tense...
Linsky observes that leaders "do themselves in as often as they are done in by others." The authors caution that "with the adrenaline pumping, we can work ourselves into believing that we are somehow different, and therefore not subject to the normal human frailties that can defeat ordinary mortals on ordinary missions." Anchor yourself, say the authors, by distinguishing your role from your self, by keeping personal confidants (as distinguished from allies), by seeking emotional sanctuary and love, and by exercising and otherwise taking care of yourself, body and soul...