Does doodling actually increase your ability to pay attention?
I've posted before about the positives and negatives of daydreaming. Looks like doodling may increase your ability to pay attention when your mind is tempted to wander: Via The Science…
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How To Increase Willpower: 10 Secrets From Research
Some insights about willpower from research, with links to the studies: Practicing a little willpower every day increases self-control over time. For immediate results: tighten your muscles, sit up straight or cross…
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This Is The Quickest Way To Become An Expert Negotiator
Be nice. We often associate negotiation with being tough or manipulative. While there are certainly situations where that's the case, a great deal of the recent research says we can…
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Is not doing something the most important thing to do today?
Exercising self-control in one area of life tends to improve all areas of life. From Willpower: Resdiscovering the Greatest Human Strength: Those in the fitness program got fitter; those working…
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This Is Why First Impressions Can Be Dangerous
We can become a slave to our first impressions. Once we've set them, they can be hard to change. Via David McRaney's You Are Not So Smart: A study in…
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How can you figure out what your real long term goals are?
Visualize your funeral and consider what you would want friends to describe as your legacy. Via Richard Wiseman's excellent book 59 Seconds: Change Your Life in Under a Minute: Asking people…
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What should you think about to immediately increase self-control?
Think about money: Self-control draws upon a resource that is limited, such that acts of self-control deplete the resource, causing performance on subsequent acts of self-control to suffer. In this…
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Is postponement the key to resisting temptation?
Telling yourself "Not now, but later" is far more powerful than "No, you can't have that." From Willpower: Resdiscovering the Greatest Human Strength: ...people who had told themselves Not now,…
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