I fought against writing a book about MindShifting. Yes, I do want to make these concepts easily accessible, but I couldn’t see how a book could really transform people’s mindsets and behavior. While someone can understand the concepts from reading about them, MindShifting is about fluently using the skills to remain in resourceful mode. And…
Vera Hart wrote a Substack article on May 10 that really delineated the difference between pain and suffering. The title of the article is Anticipation Is Its Own Kind of Suffering. When something happens that hurts us, physically or emotionally, we feel pain. When we anticipate that pain before an event that may or may not…
Imagine rolling out a new district-wide Learning Management System (LMS). The goal is clear and highly beneficial: to have one centralized platform for assignments, content, assessments, data, and communications. You present the vision, and it seems like everyone is on board. But within weeks, the resistance begins. Teachers are skipping the training sessions or constantly…
Imagine rolling out a critical new initiative—perhaps a district-wide shift to the science of reading or a new equity-based grading policy. During cabinet and staff meetings, everyone nods along. They agree to the timelines and give the initiative enthusiastic lip service. But months later, the rollout stalls. Behind closed doors, teachers are continuing to teach…
The first session of the MindShifting: Mastering Your Resourceful Brain course examines the freeze response, how we sometimes sabotage what we want to accomplish by listening to our limbic brain’s excuses of why we should procrastinate or why we shouldn’t act. Some of the lies that our brains tells us are: That’s a long way…
The key to unlocking our full potential lies in our ability to shift from the limbic, survival-oriented mode to the prefrontal, sage-like state of being.
And don’t give in either MITCHELL WEISBURGH Mar 29, 2025 Imposter syndrome is an example of a larger phenomenon, and when we fight it, we actually make it stronger. Our limbic brains through 100’s of millions of years of development evolved to keep us safe. In hundredths of a second we recognize danger, we decide…
