This Is How To Be Productive: 5 New Secrets Proven By Research
nt to know how to be productive? Create goals, make a plan and execute. We all know this is a good idea... and it never, ever seems to work. It’s like simplifying boxing down to “Just go into the ring and punch the other guy until he's knocked out.” Sounds easy. (Hint: it’s not that easy.) So let's ask a different question: what's stopping you from being productive? By fixing those things, we're well on our way to accomplishment. Whenever you're not getting…
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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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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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Personal Habits: How To Make Good Habits Stick, 6 Proven Secrets
all want to get to the gym, be more productive, be kinder to our loved ones... and then we don’t do it. Why? Well, building solid personal habits can be hard. In fact, research shows it takes an average of 66 days to build a new good habit. From Oliver Burkeman’s Help! How to be slightly happier and get a bit more done: On average, her subjects, who were trying to learn new habits such as eating fruit daily or going jogging,…
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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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Inner Strength: This Is The Research-Backed Way To Increase Grit
er feel like you just wanna give up on something? How can you develop the inner strength necessary to achieve your long term goals? Turns out that grit -- the perseverance that keeps us going -- is a lot more important than you might think. In fact, it's the best predictor of success among West Point cadets. From Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us: The best predictor of success, the researchers found, was the prospective cadets’ ratings on a noncognitive, nonphysical trait…
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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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