Are future creative geniuses unpopular in high school?
s. The deliberate practice that will one day make them famous alienates them from their peers in adolescence. Via Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking: ...the single-minded focus on what would turn out to be a lifelong passion, is typical for highly creative people. According to the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who between 1990 and 1995 studied the lives of ninety-one exceptionally creative people in the arts, sciences, business, and government, many of his subjects were on the social…
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10 things that can help you predict who will win Olympic gold:
love underdogs but being an underdog doesn't make you more motivated. In fact, the favorites try 30% harder when facing underdogs because they're afraid of being humiliated. The country's culture matters. Teams from more collectivist cultures perform better. Do you know a fair amount about the sport you're watching? Then don't think too hard when making your prediction. Attractive athletes might be more likely to win. "The teams that touched the most cooperated the most, and won the most."…
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Do psychopaths make good US Presidents?
, but researchers were surprised to find that successful Presidents do share a few traits in common with psychopaths: Although psychopathic personality (psychopathy) is marked largely by maladaptive traits (e.g., poor impulse control, lack of guilt), some authors have conjectured that some features of this condition (e.g., fearlessness, interpersonal dominance) are adaptive in certain occupations, including leadership positions. We tested this hypothesis in the 42 U.S. presidents up to and including George W. Bush using (a) psychopathy trait estimates derived…
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How A Night Owl Can Learn To Be An Early Bird
ink Christmas morning: when there's something we're excited about, it's easy to get out of bed early. Via What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Mornings--and Life: Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage and a self-proclaimed night owl, trained himself to become a morning person by creating rituals that make him excited to get out of bed. He starts the day by writing down things he’s thankful for. “The reason we…
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5 Things You Need To Know About Kissing
n and women kiss for different reasons. "Males tend to kiss as a means of gaining sexual favors, or as a means of affecting reconciliation... Females kiss more as a mate-assessment device." The odds a woman will kiss her partner on their first date are 1 in 1.85, or about 54%. Most people naturally turn their head to the right when kissing, whether they're left or right handed. Kissing is healthy. Couples instructed to kiss more "experienced improvements in perceived…
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A Quick Way To Boost Your Confidence, According To Research
ok at your resume. Reviewing your credentials can remind you how talented you are and induce a "reverse stereotype threat" that boosts confidence. Via Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To: I immediately think about my research credentials, a trick I developed after discovering that getting people to think about aspects of themselves that are conducive to success can actually be enough to propel them to a top performance and prevent…
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Here’s The Secret To Persistence, According To Research
en challenged, focus on "getting better" -- not doing well or looking good. Get-better goals increase motivation, make tasks more interesting and replenish energy. This effect even carries over to subsequent tasks. Via Nine Things Successful People Do Differently: Get-better goals, on the other hand, are practically bulletproof. When we think about what we are doing in terms of learning and mastering, accepting that we may make some mistakes along the way, we stay motivated despite the setbacks that might…
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What’s more likely to land you a job: a referral or just being good-looking?
you had to choose between one or the other, forget the referral and just be hot: There is a blend of various factors on which the hiring of employee is based upon. This paper investigates and interrogates the contribution of physical attractiveness and referrals in the hiring of employee and further ponders on which matters the most from the above outlined variables when an employee is hired. The findings of the paper clearly confirm that it is the physical…
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