This Is How To Easily Improve Your Body Language: 4 Proven Secrets
at is your body language telling others about you? Last week I wrote about how to read other people (you can check that out here.) But being able to evaluate other people's body language just ain't real helpful if you're sending off all the wrong signals yourself. So let's get a better understanding of what you're unconsciously telling people and how to present a better you. We'll learn what body language can make you more influential, make you appear like a…
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How To Read People: 5 Secrets Backed By Research
e'd all like to learn how to read people like Sherlock Holmes. And research shows understanding things like body language is even more powerful than you might think. MIT found that the outcome of negotiations could be predicted by body language alone 87% of the time. From The Charisma Myth: How Anyone…
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How To Make A Relationship Last: 5 Secrets Backed By Research
ve is wonderful, love is joy, love is the greatest thing in the world... Love is also an enormous pain in the ass. Marriage is hard work. (Older people are nodding right now while young people are probably sticking their fingers in their ears and reciting their favorite lines from "The Notebook.") So how do you make love last? What myths about love are leading us astray and what do you have to do to have a loving relationship that stands the…
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FOMO: This Is The Best Way To Overcome Fear Of Missing Out
u hear about FOMO a lot these days. In fact, the word was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013. What does it really mean? A recent study on the subject defined it as: ...‘‘the uneasy and sometimes all-consuming feeling that you’re missing out – that your peers are doing, in the know about, or in possession of more or something better than you’’. Under this framing of FoMO, nearly three quarters of young adults reported they experienced the phenomenon. It's…
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How To Make Life Spectacular: 4 Rituals Backed By Research
ere's no shortage of advice on how to live a great life. Research has answers... but, frankly, who can remember them all? What do you need to do to be happy? What attitude should you take toward life? How can you reduce stress and be gritty? What makes for a loving relationship? It's exhausting... I'm here to make it simple. Just remember one word: SOCC. (Yeah, it's a made-up word, but work with me here, okay?) So what's it mean? Sappy Optimism Control Communicate A missing…
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How To Be Persuasive: 7 New Secrets From Hostage Negotiation
all have to have difficult conversations. And they'd be easier if you knew how to be persuasive. Whether it's dealing with family members, buying a car or negotiating a raise, persuasion is always a useful skill. But much of what you read doesn't work in tough scenarios. So I decided to call someone who has handled the most challenging scenarios imaginable -- ones where lives are on the line... Chris Voss was the FBI's lead international hostage negotiator and he's the author…
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This Is The Most Fun Way To Improve Every Part Of Your Life
u don’t celebrate enough. I’m not talking about just having fun for the sake of having fun. Plenty of scientific research shows that celebrating is the key to a better life. We need more high-fives, more parties, more chocolate consumption, and a lot more saying, “Wow, that’s great!” Sound too simple and cheery? Wrong. Here's why... Relationships Are you trying to fix things in your romantic relationship so it will last? Stop right now. Why? Because you have it backwards. Studies…
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Be Happier: This Is The Most Inspiring Way To Be Happier And More Motivated
all wanna be happy, right? But I have a little surprising, unhappy news about happiness -- it can be selfish. Here's what one study showed: Our findings suggest that happiness is mainly about getting what one wants and needs, including from other people or even just by using money... Happiness went with being a taker more than a giver, while meaningfulness was associated with being a giver more than a taker. So happiness and goodness can be separate. There's the…
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