Category: Make Better Decisions

Live The Good Life

Secrets To Success: 6 Tips From The Most Successful People

at are the secrets to success? Well, successful people work hard. But you work hard too, right? And if you keep working harder and harder you're just going to be miserable. So what's the answer? Successful people don't just work hard, they also work different. So let's see what you and I can learn from extremely successful people who achieve big things -- and hear some really cool stories in the process. And since we're talking about big accomplishments, it only makes sense that…


13 minutes
Be More Productive

How To Increase Mental Toughness: 4 Secrets Of Navy SEALs And Olympians

ow what's really interesting? Learning how Navy SEALs build mental toughness to handle deadly situations. Know what else is really interesting? Learning how Olympic athletes deal with the pressure of competition when the entire world is watching. Know what's the most interesting of all? When you find out they do a lot of the same things. "Mental Links To Excellence" is a research study of what Olympians do to prepare for their big day. And so much of it lines up with what I learned researching…


7 minutes
Live The Good Life

How To Attract Good Luck: 4 Secrets Backed By Research

ver had a run of bad luck? It feels like the world is actively conspiring against you. Ever wonder if you can improve your luck? And I don't mean with voodoo or magic crystals. Turns out somebody has done scientific research on luck. So I gave him a call. Richard Wiseman…


8 minutes
Be A Great Negotiator

Fear Of Rejection: 2 Ways To Beat It, Backed By Research

all deal with fear of rejection. Jia Jiang did too. But he overcame it... thanks to a box of donuts. He explains how this happened in his wonderful book, Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection. His dream was to be an entrepreneur -- and that means a lot of rejection. So how could he beat the fear? By turning it into a game. For 100 days he made ridiculous requests of strangers, expecting to get rejected.…


7 minutes
Be More Productive

3 Things Psychopaths Can Teach You About Being A Happier Person

u're a good person. Or at least you're trying to be. Me too. But that doesn't mean we can't learn a thing or two from the bad guys. And I mean the really bad guys -- psychopaths. So let's give the devil his due. And that's why I gave Kevin a call. Dr. Kevin Dutton is a researcher at Oxford and author of The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success. You might be wondering what…


9 minutes
Be A Great Communicator

A Special Forces Officer Teaches You 5 Secrets To Overcoming Adversity

fe can be really difficult sometimes. We all deal with it. But how do top performers overcome challenges? And what can we learn from them? I figured I'd call an expert. Who knows about overcoming adversity? Special Forces. So I called Mike Kenny. Mike's a Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel with 22 years of service under his belt. For most of his career he was an 18 Alpha (Special Forces Officer) and is currently the Special Operations Forces liaison to the School of Advanced Military Studies. Most…


11 minutes
Be Happier

How To Find Happiness In Today’s Hectic World

ying to find happiness in a world so busy and complicated can seem impossible. What's weird is that in so many ways our lives are objectively better than our grandparents' lives were. We have more... yet we often feel worse. Don't you wonder if life was happier when it was simpler? I do. Who has the explanation for this? And more importantly, who has answers on how to fix it? I don't. But I know someone who does. So I gave Barry Schwartz a call. He's…


10 minutes
Interviews With Experts

How To Be Like Sherlock Holmes: 4 Insights From Research

uldn't it be great to be able to just look at someone and tell what they're really like? Sherlock Holmes does this all the time and it's incredibly cool. Check out this clip from the BBC show Sherlock. Of course, Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character and nobody can read people quite that well. We can all get better at it, though. But where do you learn a skill like that? And I mean for real -- methods backed by science. So…


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