Leaders grow competence by adding skills, frameworks, and experiences. But they grow “capacity” by unlearning, which involves changing prior scripts, such as the assumptions that speed, reassurance, ...

Gia Storms is an executive and leadership coach and faculty with the Co-Active Training Institute. She is based in Los Angeles. Two leaders I coach have been locked in conflict for months, working ...

We make assumptions every day. We often use assumptions as a shortcut when we lack firsthand knowledge. We assume we know what other people think and this prevents us from learning what they really ...

Taken together, these findings challenge a common misconception. Autistic individuals were not unwilling or unable to tailor ...

In relationships we are always at a choice point, to assume and blame or tell the truth about how we are feeling and what we need. When you see the dishes piled up in the sink, or your partner is ...

Let’s look at how this works. I have a quick story for you, then a question. A bus driver was heading down Van Ness Avenue in my home town of San Francisco. He went through a stop sign without even ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. Last month, Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard, ...

Our IHE community may disagree on many things, but the one thing we seem to agree on is the wisdom of our own thinking. Read the pieces on Views, Blog U, and the Comments on IHE and you don’t get the ...

The LSAT logical reasoning section asks about sufficient and necessary assumptions behind arguments. It's important to carefully distinguish these two kinds of questions. Each involves a different ...