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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 June 11, 2012

Psychology: Is Our Survival Instinct Failing Us?

The human instinct to survive is our most powerful drive. Since animals climbed out of the primordial muck and as our early ancestors rose from all fours to walk upright, evolution has been guided by its ability to help us survive and reproduce. Just about everything that humans have become serves that essential purpose, in […]

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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 June 5, 2012

YouTube Channel: Positive Pushing: How to Raise a Successful and Happy Child

I just uploaded a 60-minute talk to my YouTube channel on Positive Pushing: How to Raise a Successful and Happy Child that I gave recently at the Stevenson School in Carmel CA. To learn more, visit my Prime Family and Speaking Topics web pages.  

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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 June 5, 2012

YouTube Channel: Prime Business: The Psychology of Spectacular Success

I just uploaded a 60-minute talk to my YouTube channel on the role of psychology in business performance that I gave recently at the Transamerica Leadership Forum in Minneapolis. As a featured speaker for Natixis Global Assessment Management, the 14th largest assessment management firm in the world, I regularly speaking to financial-industry and other business professionals […]

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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 June 4, 2012

Personal Growth: Should You Take a Leap of Faith?

I’ve been on a bit of a self-help kick in my writing lately. And given the strong response from my last post about regret, I figured I would continue my personal-growth jones and write about another topic that might be of interest to readers. Living the life you want often means making some big changes […]

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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 May 29, 2012

Personal Growth: Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda

What is the worst emotion you can imagine feeling? In my work, I see people express many different emotions. Yes, some are wonderful such as joy, excitement, pride, and inspiration. But others I see, not surprisingly, are less positive including fear, frustration, anger, and sadness. Yet, the one emotion that lies along the continuum of […]

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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 May 21, 2012

Cycling: Prime Cycling Pyramid

As I discussed in my first post, Prime Cycling is defined as “riding at a consistently high level under the most challenging training and race conditions.” Prime Cycling is a goal toward which everyone in the cycling world should strive, the result of which is to maximize your riding efforts and enable you to achieve […]

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