This Is How To Quit Bad Habits Without Willpower: 3 Secrets From Neuroscience
ot any serious bad habits? The extra-strength ones with the FDA warning. The kind you really beat yourself up about -- but still engage in all the time? Procrastination that screws up the quality of your work? Epic tidal waves of laziness? Or cardiac-threatening levels of overwork? Snapping at the…
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New Neuroscience Reveals 3 Secrets That Will Make You Emotionally Intelligent
otional Intelligence. It's everywhere. They won't shut up about it. And yet nobody seems to be able to explain what it really means or how you develop it. Face it: you don't even know what an emotion is. Most people would say an emotion is a feeling. And what's a feeling? Umm... an emotion? Yeah, nice work there, Captain Circular. And it turns out the latest research shows that the little we know about emotions is actually all wrong. And…
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7 Secrets That Will Make You Build Good Habits
just wanted to let you know my first book is now a Wall bestseller! Building good habits can be hard. Real hard. Nearly half of dieters give up within a week. From Stick with It: Forty percent of dieters quit within one week and more than 50 percent end up weighing more than they did before they started their diets. So what really helps? Does…
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This Is How To Kill Bad Habits With Mindfulness
just wanted to let you know my first book is now a Wall bestseller! We all struggle with bad habits. Resisting them is hard. Changing them feels impossible. Now there are plenty of tricks from standard psychology on how to deal with bad habits. But what if there was a way that really helped you understand yourself better? Something that wasn't just a "lifehack", but actually led…
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This Is How To Make Life Magical – Scientifically: 5 Secrets Backed By Research
was hesitant to write this. I'm the guy who talks about using evidence-backed stuff -- scientific research -- to get real results. But now I'm going to talk about magic... No, this isn't Hogwarts and I haven't totally lost it. Science gives us clear answers to deal with challenges. Problem is, well, us. We're just not very scientific creatures. Our brains are wired all funny and we're often not terribly rational. As writer Matthew Hutson points out, we often see meaning where there isn't…
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Computer Science Reveals 4 Secrets That Will Make You Happy
ere do you go for most of your answers these days? Google. And it's no surprise that Google's a company full of engineers. Engineers solve problems. That's what they do. And computer software engineers have developed methods -- algorithms -- to solve some of the most insanely complex problems out there. So what if we turned that cold, clinical science toward the warmest and most human of problems? Turns out you can get some amazing solutions. No, you don't need to understand calculus…
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How To Make The World A Better Place: 4 Secrets Backed by Research
ny people aren’t happy with the way things are going right now. You want to make the world a better place -- but you don’t have superpowers (I think that’s a safe assumption) and you don’t get to vote all that often. Actually, it's worse than that. It turns out many of the philanthropic things we can do don't work all that well. And the way we go about engaging in them is fraught with problems too -- like cognitive biases. And then…
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Here Are The Exclusive Bonuses For The “Barking Up The Wrong Tree” Book
right, time to make the "official" announcement... My book, Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong, will be available May 16th on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iBooks. (Yes, there's an audiobook version, read by a guy who speaks far more intelligibly than I do.) This thing took more than 2 years of my life and 20 cc's of my soul to complete. It contains the answers I wish I'd had many years ago about…
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