Therese Huston

Unleash the full potential of your brain with Best Brain Ever! This engaging guide helps kids discover the secrets to creativity, focus, friendship, stress management, and thriving in a tech-filled world. Designed as a children’s version of Sharp: 14 Simple Ways to Improve Your Life with Brain Science, this book is packed with tools, tips, and myth-busting facts that even grown-ups get wrong.   Unlock Your Potential: Discover how to embrace challenges with a growth mindset and bust common myths about your brain, like the idea of being "left-brained" or "right-brained.” (Your whole brain is on your team!) Harness Creativity: Find out how constraints can actually make you more creative. Master Focus: Learn how exercise can sharpen your focus and how to manage ADHD effectively (and even turn it into a superpower). Build Better Connections: Strengthen your social intelligence—your ability to understand what others are feeling—and make lasting friendships. Find Calm: Learn stress-busting techniques that will help you feel better even during tough times. Thrive in a Tech-Filled World: Understand how your brain handles texting, posting, and screen time—and why it’s important to take control of your tech use. Best Brain Ever is packed with actionable tips and backed by science that's made understandable thanks to author Therese Huston. Whether you’re boosting your creativity, building friendships, or navigating technology, this book will help you think sharper, feel better, and become the best version of yourself. Start your journey to a smarter, happier brain today! Mayo Clinic Press Kids creates empowering health and wellness content in partnership with pediatric experts. Proceeds from the sale of every book go to benefit important medical research and education at Mayo Clinic.

Critical feedback, delivered frequently and expertly, can be a game changer - it can turn average performers into the hardest workers and stars into superstars. But fear of hurt feelings and awkward conversations often lead managers to hold back from offering crucial insights. According to recent studies, 44% of managers dread giving feedback, while 65% of employees wish their managers gave more. In Let's Talk, Dr Therese Huston shows how to deliver feedback effectively and with confidence. Starting with the best ways to approach the evaluation process, Huston explains the importance of siding with the other person, stating your good intentions and working out what kind of critique your employees want most - do they want to be appreciated, coached or evaluated? Huston then delves into the six practical tools you need to deliver impactful feedback, including how to take steps to ensure unconscious bias doesn't leak into your appraisal. Above all, Dr Huston offers a step-by-step plan to prove that productive, collaborative assessments are straightforward and not, as they sometimes seem, a Jedi mind trick. This handbook offers the tools to help anyone, from executives to teachers to coaches, to improve performance, trust and morale and make a once-dreaded task feel natural.

"One could imagine it becoming required reading on Wall Street."--New York Times Book Review So, you've earned a seat at the table. What happens next? We all face hard decisions every day and the choices we make, and how others perceive them, can be life-changing. There are countless books on how to make those tough calls, but How Women Decide is the first to examine a much overlooked truth: men and women approach decisions differently, and often in surprising ways. Stress? It makes women more focused. Confidence? Caution can lead to stronger decisions. And despite popular misconceptions, women are just as decisive as men--though they may pay for it. Pulling from the latest science on decision-making, as well as lively stories of real women and their experiences, cognitive scientist Therese Huston teaches us how we can best shape our habits, perceptions, and strategies, not just to make the most of our own opportunities, but to reshape the culture and bring out the best decisions--regardless of who's making them. "I thought I had read everything I needed to read on gender differences, but, as a CEO, this book showed me a new and critically important area in which we need to be very aware of our biases and take the steps Huston recommends to address them."--Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family and president and CEO of New America.