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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How Psychology Can Make You A Better Cook: 5 Secrets from Research
u wanted to have friends over for dinner and impress them. Now the kitchen has become your personal Jackson Pollock canvas. Flour has turned the countertops into a winter wonderland, a lone egg yolk is weeping into the sink, and you’re wearing most of the other ingredients. Why is this so hard? The recipes always call for some fancy ingredient that you’ve never heard of and couldn’t find if your life depended on it. (What the hell is fennel pollen,…
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This Is How To Get Healthy: 4 Powerful Secrets From Research
alth. You know, that elusive state of being where your insides are all sparkly. Unfortunately, these days every health tip should be met with the kind of skepticism usually reserved for UFO sightings. The suggestions we’re provided with range from “more alien than a David Bowie concept album” to "unintentionally hilarious." To get health tips online is to have your brain explode in a shower of absurdity, leaving you wondering if the human race is really the most intelligent species…
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How To Be More Resilient: 6 Steps To Success When Life Gets Hard
metimes life doesn't just hand you lemons -- it pelts you with them like you're in a citrus fruit dodgeball game. Yeah, we’re talking about when you have to deal with grief, like the death of a loved one or other serious tragedies. You're left with this bizarre, jagged-edged picture that sort of resembles your life, but not really. It's a process that’s as confusing as trying to read a book where every other page is from a different novel.…
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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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