By: Tonette Kellett on January 12, 2023
Introduction In the book, The Molecule of More, the authors wrote about dopamine and its effect on different areas of our lives and on society as a whole. [1] According to WebMD, dopamine is a type of neurotransmitter made by our bodies. [2] Our nervous system uses dopamine to send messages between our nerve cells.…
By: Jenny Steinbrenner Hale on January 12, 2023
As I Begin One of my goals this semester is to reduce the amount of time I spend preparing my blogs, in order to sharpen my communication skills and create a more balanced life and work routine. I am pushing myself to form and hone my ideas more quickly and to edit less. I find…
By: Audrey Robinson on January 12, 2023
Brief Overview: Daniel Lieberman, MD, and Michael E. Long, behavioral health specialists, set out to take complex, chemical brain functions and simplify their functions into everyday language. In The Molecule of More, they used easy-to-understand concepts such as “up” and “down” to explain the two chemical categories that occur in our cognition. According to Lieberman…
By: Kristy Newport on January 12, 2023
I want my relationship with Jesus to look like the one Peter had. Like Peter, Jesus is foremost my Savior and Creator, but I believe He also is my coach. Camocho provides a resource for those who are interested in coaching and what to look for in a coach in his book Mining for Gold. …
By: Shonell Dillon on January 11, 2023
Sometimes when reading I think about movies that I have watched. The movies may not be one hundred percent congruent to the topic but just a reminder or a flashback. When reading this book, I thought about a movie from 1985, “The Goonies”. As silly as it may seem I started thinking about how they…
By: Shonell Dillon on January 11, 2023
Christmas 2022 was seamless despite the worry that I would not be able to get things done. My expectations were that I could be a part of a Christmas bazaar, give a toy giveaway, and have my home ready for my personal Christmas. I successfully with the help of others, pulled it all off plus…
By: Caleb Lu on January 10, 2023
I found Daniel Lieberman and Michael Long’s The Molecule of More to be both thought provoking in the way it portrayed the role of dopamine in a wide range of human behaviors and simultaneously reckless in the way it presented studies to back their claims. Lieberman and Long’s explanation of dopamine activity as an indicator…
By: David Beavis on January 10, 2023
How do people change? This is a question that has fascinated, and borderline haunted me over the years of pastoring people. Whether they be students, young adults, or parents, I often catch myself wondering “Will you ever grow up?” Now, admittedly, this can come from a misplaced, self-righteous frustration with people (such is the crucible…
By: Becca Hald on January 9, 2023
David Eagleman, PhD. wrote of The Molecule of More, “Lieberman and Long tell the epic saga of dopamine as a page-turner that you simply can’t put down.”[1] A page turner about science? That did not seem likely to me, but as I started perusing the book, I found it to be true. I worked hard…
By: Kristy Newport on January 9, 2023
In Daniel Lieberman’s book The Molecule of More, the power of dopamine is described, particularly how it affects the human brain and human behavior. Lieberman does an incredible job at providing his readers with research on how adults respond to dopamine. He defines dopamine as “the pleasure of anticipation– the possibility of something unfamiliar and…
By: Greg McMullen on January 8, 2023
In school as a child and teen, these were the words I heard the most “bigger, stronger, faster.” This seemed to be the main focus of football players in the program I grew up in. From 6th grade on, we met before school, during school, and after our sport we pumped iron, we ran, we…
By: Audrey Robinson on December 16, 2022
In his book Tempered Resilience, Tod Bolsinger explains the leadership development process using the analogy of steel being tempered due to blacksmithing. Bolsinger uses the metaphor to describe what is needed today for leaders to grow into the type of person who can be “resilient and adaptive in order to cut through the resistance and…
By: Chad McSwain on December 13, 2022
There is an incredible amount of vulnerability in being exposed, as well as the elation that you are not alone. It is a comfort and joy when you encounter someone who describes your lived experience and how you felt about it, only to learn that is exactly how others have felt too. That is the…
By: Sara Taylor Lattimore on December 12, 2022
Earlier this year I had the privilege of meeting the author Tod Bolsinger at a conference. I have ready his books and have worked with leaders who are advocates and practitioners of adaptive leadership. As I sat and listened to his workshop. I began to understand more fully the empowering nature of leading this way…
By: Jenny Steinbrenner Hale on December 8, 2022
Throughout history, strong leaders have benefited from adaptive leadership skills that equip them to navigate our ever-changing world and unique societal contexts. Not only do adaptive leaders possess the qualities needed to negotiate change, themselves, but they possess the crucial qualities needed to prepare and encourage other people to navigate complex challenges and thrive in…
By: Becca Hald on December 8, 2022
“The most important part of Christmas is the first six letters.” This quote was on the bottom of a devotional page a friend gave me in college and I think of it every year. C H R I S T The most important part of Christmas is Christ. That is what came to mind when…
By: Tonette Kellett on December 8, 2022
A resilient leader is “grounded, teachable, attuned, adaptable, and tenacious.” [1] This is according to Tempered Resilience written by Tod Bolsinger. In the book, the author uses the image of blacksmithing to represent the process of becoming a resilient leader. [2] He outlines the process in six steps. I will take a look at these…
By: Michael O'Neill on December 7, 2022
I was excited to read Tempered Resilience by Tod Bolsinger. Kristy Newport recommended this book to me earlier in the semester as a positive resource for my NPO and she was correct. This was the perfect resource for my portfolio project and also the ideal read for my psyche this past week. Life has been…
By: Alana Hayes on December 7, 2022
Tod Bolsinger, a well known author and leader most recently at Fuller Seminary by designing an entire program on leadership for them. His recent book Tempered Resilience explores leadership challenges through adaptive changes within various leadership positions. The author states that “resilience is not simply found within leadership but carefully formed. Leaders are formed by…
By: Sara Taylor Lattimore on December 7, 2022
Becoming a leader is a journey it is a process. There have been many who would say “Oh they were born a natural leader.” Some of us may have a tendency towards accessing our human response more readily, but leadership is a process, it is a collection of responses and human reactions. In the book…
