How To Deal With Anxiety, Tragedy Or Heartache – 4 Steps From Research
ou don't remember me, but I was in your experiment a year ago. I just wanted to thank you. It changed my life." James Pennebaker has had a number of people say this to him over the years. In the early 80's he came across a study showing that people who experienced personal traumas but didn't discuss them were more likely to get sick. He wondered if just writing about their emotional upheavals could help people recover. And the research he did changed lives. In the 30 years since, hundreds of…
8 minutes
How To Be A Better Writer: 6 Tips From Harvard’s Steven Pinker
want 2B a better writer? Good writing is often looked at as an art and, frankly, that can be intimidating. No need to worry. There are rules -- even science -- behind writing well. Our brain works a particular way; so what rules do we need to know to write the way the brain best understands? To find out the answer I gave Steven Pinker a call. Steven is a cognitive scientist and linguist at Harvard. He's also on the Usage Panel…
10 minutes
How To Get People To Like You: 7 Ways From An FBI Behavior Expert
eeting new people can be awkward. What should you say? How can you make a good impression? How do you keep a conversation going? Research shows relationships are vital to happiness and networking is the key to getting jobs and building a fulfilling career. But what's the best way to…
10 minutes
How To Be Efficient: Dan Ariely’s 6 New Secrets To Managing Your Time
's hard to be efficient. Sometimes it feels like the world doesn't make any sense. Sometimes you don't make any sense. And sometimes it feels like it's all a conspiracy. As we'll see shortly, these are all, in a way, true. Dan Ariely is the king of irrational behavior. Not that he's more irrational than you or I, but he's studied an impressive amount of it. Dan is a behavioral economist at Duke University and the New York Times bestselling author of…
9 minutes
How The Most Successful People Manage Their Time
here does the time go?" I say it. I'm sure you say it a lot. We seek work-life balance but it seems there's never enough time to get it all done. And yet we all know there are people who accomplish a lot more than we do in a day -- and they don't have magic powers. How do the most successful people manage their time? Laura Vanderkam talked to a number of those people (including productivity expert David Allen and…
7 minutes
7 Ways You Can Easily Increase Your Willpower
general, people have an overly positive vision of themselves and their abilities. But what's the one thing surveys show most everyone will admit they have a problem with? Self-control. And who is most likely to give in to temptation? Ironically, it's the people who think they have the most willpower. Via The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It: Research shows that people who think they have the most willpower are actually the…
6 minutes
Most Productive People: 6 Things They Do Every Day
er feel like you’re just not getting enough done? Know how many days per week you're actually productive? About 3: People work an average of 45 hours a week; they consider about 17 of those hours to be unproductive (U.S.: 45 hours a week; 16 hours are considered unproductive). We could all be accomplishing a lot more -- but then again, none of us wants to be a workaholic either. It'd be great to get tons done and have work/life balance.…
8 minutes
Seduction, Power and Mastery: 3 Lessons From History’s Greatest Minds
at can we learn about human nature and the way the world works from reading history? This has been the territory of Robert Greene. He is the New York Times bestselling author of 48 Laws Of Power, The Art of Seduction, and Mastery, among other books. Combining the lessons of thousands of years, what do you learn about the fundamental subjects of seduction, power and mastery? I called Robert to find out. Seduction What's at the root of seduction? Surprise. Robert…
6 minutes
