How To Be Resilient: 8 Steps To Success When Life Gets Hard
tick with it!" "Be resilient!" "Never give up!" I see a lot of stuff about resilience, persistence and grit. What I don't see is a lot of legitimate info on how to actually increase those qualities. How can we be more resilient? How can we shrug off huge challenges in life, persist and -- in the end -- succeed? So I looked at the most difficult scenarios for insight. (Who needs resilience in easy situations, right?) When life and death is on the line,…
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4 Life Lessons That Lead to Happiness, Success and Longevity
see an endless stream of one-off studies in the news. This makes you healthy. Wait, no, it doesn't. Oh hold on, yes, it does. Um, no, no it doesn't... Unless we can somehow put them all into perspective, these little dribs and drabs of knowledge really aren't much more than trivia. What happens when you study entire lives? When you check in on big groups of people again and again for decades? What do you learn about what makes a good…
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The 8 Things The Happiest People Do Every Day
iversity of California professor Sonja Lyubomirsky details the things research shows the happiest people have in common. Via The How of Happiness: They devote a great amount of time to their family and friends, nurturing and enjoying those relationships. They are comfortable expressing gratitude for all they have. They are often the first to offer helping hands to coworkers and passersby. They practice optimism when imagining their futures. They savor life’s pleasures and try to live in the present moment. They…
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Decision Making: The #1 Secret Of Astronauts, Samurai, Navy SEALs, and Psychopaths
all make a lot of bad decisions. With careers: More than half of teachers quit their jobs within four years. In fact, one study in Philadelphia schools found that a teacher was almost two times more likely to drop out than a student. In our jobs: A study showed that when doctors reckoned themselves “completely certain” about a diagnosis, they were wrong 40% of the time. And in our personal lives: ...an estimated 61,535 tattoos were reversed in the United…
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Old School: 7 Ideas From Ancient Thinkers To Improve Your Modern Life
e modern world has brought us a lot of great stuff. (I, for one, am a huge fan of antibiotics.) That said, we know there are things that were better in the past, ideas we can learn from or reclaim. What's interesting is recently science and experts have validated many of the lessons ancient thinkers knew but could not prove. Here are 7 new ideas from the old world that can make your life better: 1) Community Is Vital For 99% of human existence…
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How To Overcome Regret And Seize The Day — Scientifically
at hurts more than those pangs of regret? It's one of the worst feelings in the world, right? But I've got a surprise for you -- regret can be a good thing. In fact, sometimes you enjoy it. Sound crazy? When researchers asked people to score the upside of many different emotions, regret actually beat out pride. Via Mastering the Art of Quitting: Why It Matters in Life, Love, and Work: Both regret and disappointment, however, scored much more favorably…
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Take A Nap! 5 Secrets That’ll Make You Happier And Smarter
r many of us, more hours of shut-eye at night just doesn't seem to be in the cards. Is there anything we can do? Yes. Naps. Wonderful, glorious naps. They're not a full-on substitute for lack of sleep but they can do much more than you think and in less time than you'd guess. Without them, you're going to be a mess. Here's why. Wanna Be Dumb And Ugly? Lack of sleep not only makes you ugly and sick, it…
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How 5 Post-It Notes Can Make You Happy, Confident and Successful
ttle Reminders Create Big Changes You know why older people are happier? Research shows as we age we remember the good and forget the bad: ...older people shown pictures of faces or situations tend to focus on and remember the happier ones more and the negative ones less. Yeah, that's all it takes. So if you could just regularly get reminders of the good things in your life, well, you'd be halfway there... And it's not speculation -- research shows thinking about…
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