I strongly believe that understanding is more important than love, especially when it comes to parenting and intimate relationships. As a psychologist for more than twenty-five years I can tell you ...

Within the rich tapestry of human experience, emotions are the vibrant threads that weave together our most profound moments and everyday interactions. Imagine emotions as a spectrum of colors, each ...

In one of the management courses I deliver, as well as with the clients I coach, one of my favorite topics to cover is understanding perspectives. Participants often tell me this topic is one of their ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. No one warns you about the true cost of always being the one ...

A common ineffective way teachers check for understanding in the classroom is by asking a variation of the question, “Does everybody get this?” If not that, then what? Today’s post will offer a number ...

This is the introductory essay in our series on understanding others’ feelings. In it we will examine empathy, including what it is, whether our doctors need more of it, and when too much may not be a ...

This article was first published in the Mindset Works newsletter. We can deepen our own and our students' understanding of mistakes, which are not all created equal, and are not always desirable.

Data understanding is the knowledge you have about data, the needs the data will satisfy, its content and location. There is no tool or artifact for data understanding, as it is expressed in business ...