This Is How To Be More Lucky: 4 Secrets From Research
times, inexplicably bad stuff happens to all of us. The kind of thing that makes you want to stand in front of the universe with a sign reading, "Really? This is what we're doing now?" And sometimes we call it “bad luck.” Oh, magical thinking, my favorite kind of thinking when I want to avoid responsibility and logic, which, if I'm honest, is most of the time. We all have a friend who believes every retrograde Mercury heralds personal…
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New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Secrets That Will Improve Your Memory
ving a bad memory is like your brain is perpetually stuck in airplane mode -- it's technically functioning but not really connecting to anything useful. At times, our minds feel less like steel traps and more like sieves with personality. We’ve all dealt with forgotten passwords and end up answering security questions that might as well be riddles posed by a bridge troll. Isn't adult life fun? And then there’s aging: nature’s ultimate bait-and-switch. Sure doesn’t make your memory any…
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How To Get Wealthy – Slowly But Surely: 5 Secrets From Research
e grand human fantasy: making money with the least amount of sweat. It's a dream as old as time, or at least as old as the invention of money and laziness, which I assume came about in the same brainstorming session. We're living in an age where people become millionaires by making videos about unboxing toys. But getting started on learning about personal finance can be both boring and confusing. Investing? Oh boy. Bulls, bears, shorts, longs – it sounds…
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New Research Reveals 8 Secrets That Will Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Succeed
study by Richard Wiseman, a psychology professor at University of Hertfordshire, found 88% of people fail to achieve their New Year’s Resolutions. Yeah, almost nine out of ten. Cynically, you could see these resolutions as a yearly exercise in self-delusion. The tradition where we all collectively decide to lie to ourselves in a more structured format. Often, they’re like annual subscriptions we buy for a better version of ourselves… only to realize we’re more into the free trial. Why…
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This Is How To Overcome Fear: 4 Secrets From Research
, Halloween. The time of year when you can paint your face green, throw on some horns, and traipse around the neighborhood begging for candy without ending up in an intervention. The only thing scarier than the ghouls and goblins is the calorie count. The emotion du jour? Fear. If fear were a person, I wouldn't invite it to my birthday party. Outside of Halloween, we generally prefer not to be afraid in life. And that’s fear’s purpose: to keep…
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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 Survive Disaster: 6 Secrets From Research
u woke up expecting another weekend of binge-watching Netflix and arguing with strangers on the internet. Instead, you were greeted by a massive earthquake. Or a flood. Hurricane. Zombie apocalypse. Or your Roomba stopped humping the sofa leg and led an AI overthrow of humanity. One thing is for certain: you’re not ready for this. Yesterday your biggest fear was sending a text to your boss and having "meeting" autocorrected to "mating." Now you gotta find water and locate food?…
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This Is How To Get Unstuck: 5 Secrets From Research
ere are moments in life that make you say, “And just how did I end up here?” You feel neck-deep in a quagmire of “stuck.” Not only has your desired future not arrived, it might not even seem possible anymore. You wish deus ex machina was really a thing. And feeling stuck isn’t even the scariest part. What’s scary is getting used to it. Whether it’s career, relationships or big picture life goals, we all get to a point where…
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