What makes up a resilient person or a resilient team? Burnley Football Club’s manager, Sean Dyche, seems to value the quality of resilience quite highly. He will often praise the resilience of his team after having fallen behind a goal and then gone onto win...
“The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another,”. Whenever one thing is described in terms of another, that’s a metaphor (Lakoff, 1980). The word originates from the Greek word metapharein, which means to transfer. We use metaphors...
Executive functions make up the system that controls higher-order cognitive processes such as planning, decision making, information monitoring, self-regulation, goal directed behaviour and much of human volitional behaviour. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is the region of the brain responsible for these critical functions and also...