This Is The Most Fun Way To Make Your Life Awesome (Pandemic Edition)
was 1962, the girls wouldn’t stop laughing and nobody knew why. And even stranger, the laughter was spreading. Like a virus. This was at an all-girls school in Kashasha, Tanzania. A few students had started laughing and they couldn't stop. And this inexplicable behavior spread from girl to girl until 95 of the 159 students were affected. After 6 weeks the school had to close because of it. But that didn't stop the laughter. It had already spread to a…
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This Is How To Overcome Impostor Syndrome: 4 Secrets From Research
Impostor Syndrome is like being a secret agent -- in the most depressing way imaginable. No matter how hard you work, no matter how much you achieve, you still feel like a fraud. You still question your ability and you're waiting to be exposed. More formally, it's often referred to as…
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New Neuroscience Reveals 5 Secrets That Will Make You Emotionally Intelligent
How are you feeling? These days it seems like there are only two answers: "Fine" and "Busy." After all, if you did say everything that's on your mind, you'd get strange looks from that barista for the rest of your life. And it's no better at work, where the room for legitimate…
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This Is How To Be Resilient: 4 Secrets To Grit When Life Gets Hard
"I quit" is rarely said flatly. Whether it's said to yourself or others, it's usually "I QUIT!" or "Ugh. I quit..." (cue *sad trombone*). And that's because quitting is rarely done at the height of rational deliberation. It's usually based on feelings in the moment. You feel fear, anger, anxiety, impatience or…
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How to Be Happier Without Really Trying: 4 Odd Secrets From Research
GOOD GOD, WILL YOU SHUT UP? Sorry. Wasn't talking to you. I was talking to the voice in my head... Don't look at me like I'm crazy; you have one too. That Inner Critic. Sometimes it’s worried and you get play-by-play color commentary on how everything could go wrong. Other times…
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How To Stop Checking Your Phone: 4 Secrets From Research
If I told you we check our phones 5 billion times a minute you’d probably just shrug and agree. We've seen the shocking stats over and over and at this point no number would surprise us. But there's one study that haunts me... Here's what NYU professor Adam Alter told me: There’s a study…
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This Is How To Rewire Your Brain For Happiness: 4 Secrets From Research
Someone compliments you and you think, "They don't mean it." Something good happens and you hear, "I don't deserve this." You're meeting new people and it's, "They won't like me." And you usually accept those words because they're coming from inside your head. It's like the horror movie where the calls…
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3 Mindfulness Rituals That Will Make You Happy
Why is it so hard to be happy all the time? Why can’t our lives be more like the joyous families in insurance commercials and less like the lives of people making insurance claims? So what does the research say can make us happier? Mindfulness. It comes from Buddhism but we…
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