Chapter 1: The Challenged Accepted

While encouraging your child to be ambitious and hard-working is a good thing, putting pressure on him in order to be sure that he will have great success throughout his lifetime can prove quite risky.

It so happens that unless the high expectations are met, both parents and childr...

Envy-inspired behaviors are more likely in contexts that make empathy difficult, such as where there’s competition. In addition, it’s often the source of prejudice. Envious people might say, “he’s not supposed to be so successful; I’ve worked far harder than he h...

One of the best ways to create positive change is to look hard at your own work as an example of what you want to see. As Marcus Buckingham wrote in “First, ...