InnerTalk Blog

Many years ago I was asked if the technology I developed, InnerTalk, might be used with an incarcerated population to lower aggression and hostility, and otherwise assist in rehabilitation efforts. As such, in the mid 1980s, together with two colleagues, we set up the first double-blind study of its kind ...

Today, I would like to discuss the impostor syndrome, or the idea that if others knew what you know about yourself, that somehow this would diminish or even discredit you. This complex, or syndrome, (also known as impostor phenomenon, fraud syndrome or the impostor experience) is a psychological pattern in ...

August is here and you can find back to school specials everywhere. But why do we think of learning and education as something only the young need to be concerned about? Of course we want to give our children and grandchildren the best start in life (and there is no ...

Recently I have felt like, regardless of which direction I look in or who I am speaking with, the number one issue that never fails to come up is that of prosperity . . . or rather the lack of it! People continue to work harder and harder for less ...

Let me share a personal story with you. Physical punishment was common when I was a child. Whenever I violated some rule or otherwise got in trouble, my mother would pull out my father’s old garrison belt and I would be forced to lay face down on the bed with ...

It was Jim Rohn, entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker, who famously said that “we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with.” But what exactly does this mean, and what can we do about it? Evidence Around Us As a general rule, Jim Rohn’s quote is used in ...