New Neuroscience Reveals 5 Secrets That Will Make You Smarter
is real, folks. It’s a number that tells you how good someone is at puzzle-solving, logical reasoning, and making you feel inadequate at dinner parties. But here’s the rub: IQ isn’t everything. Greater education and intelligence don't necessarily lift you up; sometimes they just provide better tools for digging trenches. Check this out: “Intelligent and educated people are less likely to learn from their mistakes, for instance, or take advice from others. And when they do err, they are…
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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 Newest, Biggest Thing That Will Make Your Life Easier
until very recently, most of our experiences with AI boiled down to shouting "ALEXA, STOP!" AI means “artificial intelligence”? More like “Awkwardly Inept”, if you ask me. But things have changed... Enter ChatGPT, strutting onto the scene like a rock star. Suddenly, AI wasn't just a voice in a box that occasionally understood your mumblings; it was like having a chat with someone who'd actually read a book. Or, you know, all of them. How well could a cold,…
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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 The Best Way To Get Big Projects Done: 5 Secrets From Research
ny consider the Sydney Opera House and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to be the greatest architectural masterpieces of the past century. But how the two got constructed are very, very different stories… The Guggenheim Bilbao came in on time and under budget. It turned Frank Gehry into one of the most esteemed living architects. Meanwhile, constructing the Sydney Opera House was a comedy of errors. It was scheduled to take five years to build. It took fourteen. It went 1400…
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This Is How To Succeed Under Pressure: 4 Secrets From Astronauts
the International Space Station nothing is comfortable and everything is a challenge. There’s no running water and even less privacy. Your world is covered in Velcro. And it’s loud. Fans whir and hum constantly, interrupted by the occasional micrometerorite slamming into the Station’s armor. Weightlessness does a number on your sinuses causing congestion, so food always tastes bland like when you have a head cold. There’s an emphasis on oatmeal, pudding and cooked spinach because food that clumps is…
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This Is How To Overcome Anger: 5 Powerful Secrets From Research
1974, Daniel Casriel released a book titled, “A Scream Away From Happiness.” The thesis was that by “scream therapy” you could release tension and anger and become a happier person. No, this doesn’t work and you should not buy that book unless you’re a big fan of unintentional humor. Research shows venting anger is not good. In fact, it’s better to do nothing than to scream and yell or throw things. But sometimes screaming, yelling, and throwing things sounds…
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These 5 Things Will Make You Smarter
hn von Neumann could multiply two eight-digit numbers together in his head – when he was six-years old. At 22 he was helping to develop what would become quantum mechanics. His off-the-charts mathematical ability made the Manhattan Project a success. He all but invented game theory. (Ever hear the term “zero-sum”? He coined the phrase.) And building on work by Alan Turing and Kurt Godel he laid the groundwork for the computer you’re using. Students could barely keep up with…
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