How To Know Who You Can Trust: 6 Secrets From Research
ust — humanity's favorite high-wire act. What’s the reason most people cite for wanting to leave their job? Not trusting their employer. And what quality do you value in a friend more than any other? You guessed it: trustworthiness. But a 2021 poll showed that 18 percent of American adults said they only have one or zero people they can trust for help in their personal lives. It’s a sad "I'll laugh about this in therapy" kind of statistic. Makes…
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This Is How To Deal With Negative Thoughts: 6 Secrets From Research
the theater of the mind, unwanted thoughts are the hecklers in the back row, throwing popcorn at the screen of your consciousness. Your brain, that squishy blob sitting in its dark skull-room is like those old jukeboxes in dive bars that play the same three songs on a loop. Except instead of "Don't Stop Believin'," it's "What if everyone's secretly laughing at you?" We’ve all had intrusive thoughts at one time or another: impostor syndrome, embarrassing memories, fears, anxieties,…
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This Is The Easiest Way To Make Your Life More Awesome
r homes, our schedules, our digital lives - it's all just an overflowing cornucopia of too muchness. You've got back-to-back meetings, a deluge of emails, and a to-do list longer than a CVS receipt. If you had a dime for every meeting that could've been an email, you could retire and live on an island made entirely of dimes. Our homes are now less like cozy havens and more like a game of Tetris where we're perpetually losing. We don't…
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This Is How To Spend Your Money To Maximize Happiness
ney can't buy happiness? Please. We all know that's just something rich people say to stop us from robbing them. Money might not buy lasting, profound joy, but it can undoubtedly rent some pretty good times. We all fantasize about the kind of happiness that comes with six zeroes, a gated community and a butler to iron your money for you. Even if vast wealth doesn’t buy happiness, it’s better to have a Birkin bag to keep your sadness in.…
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This Is How To Keep Your Brain Sharp As You Age: 5 Secrets From Research
ing isn’t always so fun. Your body starts making sounds like a settling old house. One day you're in your prime, and the next, you're googling whether "senior moment" is a medically recognized condition. The thing about aging is that it's sneaky, like a ninja with joint pain. You try to recall a name, and your brain's like, “We have names in here somewhere, but we’re going to need to file a request for that. Check back in two to…
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New Research Reveals 8 Secrets That Will Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Succeed
study by Richard Wiseman, a psychology professor at University of Hertfordshire, found 88% of people fail to achieve their New Year’s Resolutions. Yeah, almost nine out of ten. Cynically, you could see these resolutions as a yearly exercise in self-delusion. The tradition where we all collectively decide to lie to ourselves in a more structured format. Often, they’re like annual subscriptions we buy for a better version of ourselves… only to realize we’re more into the free trial. Why…
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This Is The Simple Way To Achieve Your Goals: 3 Secrets From Research
rategy. It's treated with a reverence usually reserved for sacred relics or the last slice of pizza. I love reading corporate strategy because I’m a big fan of fiction. Typically, it’s a phrasebook of jargon that could make a dictionary weep. It says nothing, offends no one, has no clear actions, and makes no hard decisions. It’s all “blue sky” vision. Rarely are challenges mentioned or any insight provided. It’s all mission, values, and lots of vague goals. And when…
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This Is How To Overcome Fear: 4 Secrets From Research
, Halloween. The time of year when you can paint your face green, throw on some horns, and traipse around the neighborhood begging for candy without ending up in an intervention. The only thing scarier than the ghouls and goblins is the calorie count. The emotion du jour? Fear. If fear were a person, I wouldn't invite it to my birthday party. Outside of Halloween, we generally prefer not to be afraid in life. And that’s fear’s purpose: to keep…
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