our first kiss. Graduation. Your first job. Your wedding day. Birth of your first child. These are the big memories that we all cherish. But there are other little memories that stick out because they had such a powerful emotional impact on you. Moments that enriched your life, bonded you…
ou want to get to work but instead you surf the internet. You want to diet but instead you eat enough candy to give an entire 2nd grade classroom type 2 diabetes. Why? You might think you lack self-control. Or that you make bad decisions. But none of these explanations…
otional Intelligence. It's everywhere. They won't shut up about it. And yet nobody seems to be able to explain what it really means or how you develop it. Face it: you don't even know what an emotion is. Most people would say an emotion is a feeling. And what's a feeling? Umm... an emotion? Yeah, nice work there, Captain Circular. And it turns out the latest research shows that the little we know about emotions is actually all wrong. And…
just wanted to let you know my first book is now a Wall I'd love to start with witty jokes, but we're talking tragedy here, so brace yourself. This story isn't comforting... On May 1st, 2015, while vacationing in Mexico, Sheryl Sandberg found her husband Dave dead in the hotel gym. He was only in his 40's. He had not been ill.…
just wanted to let you know my first book is now a Wall bestseller! Building good habits can be hard. Real hard. Nearly half of dieters give up within a week. From Stick with It: Forty percent of dieters quit within one week and more than 50 percent end up weighing more than they did before they started their diets. So what really helps? Does…
just wanted to let you know my first book is now a Wall bestseller! You'd like to be on vacation right now, wouldn't you? You've probably heard that spending money on experiences like travel makes you happier than just buying material things. Well, that's true: Asked which of the two purchases made them happier, fully 57% of respondents reported that they had derived greater happiness from their…
just wanted to let you know my first book is now a Wall bestseller! Everybody would like to get more of the right things done. But how does Stoicism fit into all of this? The word "productivity" seems new and sleek and shiny. And Stoicism is old. Really old. Like older-than-grandpa-old. I have news for you: Facebook and email may be recent but people have…
just wanted to let you know my first book is now a Wall bestseller! You probably know more than a few people who are just clueless about themselves. They make the same errors over and over but never seem to notice. They think they're great at stuff that, frankly, they're terrible at. But that's not the real problem... The real problem is you're one…
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