Schooling and Resilience
Isaac Prilleltensky Isaac Prilleltensky

Schooling and Resilience

What are your sources of resilience? Ora, my wife; and our son, Matan, are two of mine.

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Smarter Through Laughter
Isaac Prilleltensky Isaac Prilleltensky

Smarter Through Laughter

What to do about a funny voice, big ears, and cultural cluelessness? Try a little self-deprecation.

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Beware: Toxic Culture
Isaac Prilleltensky Isaac Prilleltensky

Beware: Toxic Culture

Are we in the midst of a second pandemic? Are we unknowingly getting infected by, and spreading, psychological toxins? How are celebritism, meritocracy, and excess independence affecting our mental health?

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To Promote Mental Wellness, Foster Fit, Fitness, and Fairness
Isaac Prilleltensky Isaac Prilleltensky

To Promote Mental Wellness, Foster Fit, Fitness, and Fairness

There is much talk about fitness nowadays -- physical fitness, mental fitness, occupational fitness– and for good reason. But is this enough? Fitness is a necessary, but insufficient condition for the promotion of well-being. In addition to activities that we can initiate and sustain through personal motivation, there are drivers of well-being having to do with the context of our lives: the right fit between person and environment, and the degree of fairness in relationships, at work, and in society at large.

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