Research Reveals 5 Powerful Rituals That Will Make You Resilient
ery now and then, life punches below the belt. How can you be resilient when times get tough and you feel bad? There are all kinds of strategies for feeling happier and showing grit. But most of them are very conscious and deliberate. And the truth is, most of what we do every day isn't all that conscious and deliberate. Ever since Freud, we've known that a lot of our behavior is unconscious. If that's the case, shouldn't you leverage your…
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This Is How To Master Your Intuition: 4 Research-Backed Secrets
u're really good at what you do and you've been doing it a long time. You've got a hunch about this big problem you're facing... Should you trust it? All those smarty-pants books (and smarty-pants blogs, for that matter) are telling you to be rational. Use this or that fancy logical system. Or a framework developed by the really smart professor at the prestigious University of Wherever. But your Spidey-Sense is tingling. There's a disturbance in The Force. This hunch just feels right...…
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This Is How To Deal With Psychopaths And Toxic People: 5 Proven Secrets
know what some people are thinking: I'm never going to deal with psychopaths. This is just more sensational clickbait junk. Wrong. The experts are betting you probably encounter a psychopath every day. In fact, a lot of what you think you know about psychopaths is very wrong. Yes, psychopaths are…
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This Is How To Be Productive Without Being Miserable: 8 Proven Secrets
ere's plenty of good advice on how to be productive. But most of it makes you feel like you need to turn yourself into a machine. You don’t want to be Robby the Robot. Here's the thing: you often don't need help with the doing part. You know what to do. Sit down and finish the damn task. But you don't. Why? Often it's about feelings. What really gets in your way? "It scares me." "I don't feel like it right…
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Neuroscience Of Meditation: How To Make Your Mind Awesome
is meditation just another fad that pops up from time to time like bell-bottom jeans? Nope. Research shows it really helps you be healthier, happier and even improves your relationships. From The Mindful Brain: The MBSR program brought the ancient practice of mindfulness to individuals with a wide range of chronic medical conditions from back pain to psoriasis. Kabat-Zinn and colleagues, including his collaborator Richard Davidson at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, were ultimately able to demonstrate that…
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This Is How To Make Good Decisions: 4 Secrets Backed By Research
fe would be a lot easier if we just knew how to make good decisions. Research shows we all make a lot of bad ones. With careers: More than half of teachers quit their jobs within four years. In fact, one study in Philadelphia schools found that a teacher was almost two times more likely to drop out than a student. In our jobs: A study showed that when doctors reckoned themselves “completely certain” about a diagnosis, they were wrong…
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Emotional Resilience: How To Boost It With 10 Research-Backed Secrets
er dealt with a really difficult situation? We've all had our emotional resilience tested. Sometimes it feels like you just want to give up. How do the toughest people summon the will to keep going? Steven Southwick and Dennis Charney have studied resilient people for over 20 years. They spoke with Vietnam prisoners of war, Special Forces instructors and civilians who dealt with terrible experiences like medical problems, abuse and trauma. In their book Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges they assembled the 10…
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Neuroscience Discovers 5 Things That Will Make You Happy
what's going to make you happy? Let's get more specific: what's going to make your brain happy? And let's focus on things that are simple and easy to do instead of stuff like winning the lottery. Neuroscience has answers. I've discussed this subject before and it was so popular I decided to call an expert to get even more dead simple ways to start your brain feeling joy. Alex Korb is a postdoctoral researcher in neuroscience at UCLA and author of The Upward Spiral.…
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