Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

What’s been shown by research to be more important for job success than IQ? What’s a major factor in life satisfaction? What contributes to lasting marriages and happy children? What can leap tall buildings in a single bound? (Well, maybe not that.) It’s emotional intelligence, also known as EQ. Emotional intelligence has been defined as the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships and conflicts with empathy and skill. Research tells us that people with high EQ enjoy many advantages and benefits in life. But some people have a lot more of…

Cristiano Ronaldo and Al-Nassr suffered a devastating blow to their silverware ambitions on Sunday night as they fell to a surprise 3-1 defeat against Al-Qadsiah. The result brings an end to their dominant run and hands the initiative back to their fiercest rivals in the race for the Saudi Pro League crown.Al-Nassr stunned as Al-Qadsiah strike earlyIn a match that was expected to be a routine hurdle on their path to the title, Al-Nassr found themselves reeling in the 31st round of the Saudi Pro League. The hosts, Al-Qadsiah, refused to follow the script and took a deserved lead in…

Imagine you’re plopped into a room with fluorescent lighting and ceilings low enough that, without fully extending your arms, you can touch them. The walls are close enough that you cannot extend them without grazing stark white drywall, and the room runs long and narrow in that particular way that registers as wrong before you can say why, like a corridor that forgot it was supposed to become a room. Every corner is lit, nothing is in shadow, the light humming with the unmistakable sound of chemical conduction, unforgiving, flat, and completely indifferent to the human body inside it. Unless…

Gratitude is about appreciating benefits from external sources that matter to your personal life. But what does personal relevance really mean? The most obvious examples involve first-hand benefits: You win the lottery, receive a promotion, or enjoy a memorable evening with friends. Yet sometimes we feel gratitude for benefits that others receive. I was overjoyed and filled with gratitude when my spouse was offered a full-time faculty position at my university. Such responses are less common than gratitude for directly self-relevant benefits, but they are far from rare. One study found that when Canadian undergraduates were given a generic gratitude…

Legendary former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has been taken to hospital from Old Trafford after feeling unwell. The 84-year-old left the stadium an hour before United’s Premier League clash with Liverpool kicked off on Sunday afternoon, with his subsequent admission to hospital described as a “precaution”.Precautionary measures at Old TraffordPer The Daily Mail, Ferguson was moved to medical care more than an hour before the scheduled kick-off on Sunday. Despite the sudden nature of the incident, it is understood that the move is purely a precaution intended to ensure the Scotsman’s well-being. It is expected that Ferguson will soon be recuperating…

This post is Part 1 in a series on the borderline level of organization. In contrast to the neurotic level, which is organized around triadic relationships (child, mother, father), those organized at a borderline level are preoccupied with dyadic relationships (child, mother) (Kernberg, 1975). Developmentally, these people run into significant challenges during the rapprochement period of the separation-individuation phase. During this subphase, children ages 16-24 months begin to experience themselves as separate from their mothers, as they begin to more independently explore the environment (Mahler, Pine, Bergman, 1975). These explorations, which a few months earlier were filled with omnipotent fantasies…

Now the NBA playoffs are in the swing of things.Let’s check out the odds for the second round of the playoffs, at DraftKings Sportsbook as of May 2.This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If you sign up or place a wager, FOX Sports may be compensated. Read more about Sports Betting on FOX Sports.EAST SECOND ROUNDNo. 8 ORL/No. 1 DET (3-3) vs. No. 5 TOR/No. 4 CLE (3-3)No. 7 PHILADELPHIA (+200) vs. No. 3 NEW YORK (-260)Season series: Tied 2-2GAME 1 — PHI @ NYK (May 4)Spread: Knicks -5.5Moneyline: Knicks -218, 76ers +180O/U: 213.5What to know:…

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How do you relate to these statements? The effects of stress are negative and should be avoided. Experiencing stress facilitates learning and growth. Experiencing stress depletes my health and vitality. Experiencing stress enhances my performance and productivity. Experiencing stress inhibits my learning and growth. Experiencing stress improves health and vitality. Experiencing stress debilitates my performance and productivity. The effects of stress are positive and should be utilized. These are the eight items on the Stress Mindset Measure, developed by Crum, Salovey, and Achor (2013), to assess whether you see stress as enhancing or debilitating. Crum and other researchers consistently demonstrate…

If burnout had a publicist, this would be its breakout season. Business is booming. Anxiety is expanding into new markets. Loneliness has become so widespread that it could qualify as a public utility. Even grocery shopping now doubles as an exposure therapy exercise. Perhaps we need a new term for these times: gas-fogging. Not gaslighting, where someone makes you question your own reality. Gas-fogging is defined as what happens when reality itself starts to feel dimmed. It’s the cumulative effect of rising prices, relentless bad news, social fragmentation, and low-grade uncertainty that settles over daily life like a psychological fog.…