How To Deal With A Narcissist: 5 Secrets Backed By Research
ou must be tired of them. They're everywhere. Narcissists. And if you think there are more of them than ever, you're right. Research shows we are experiencing a narcissism epidemic. From The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement: In data from 37,000 college students, narcissistic personality traits rose just…
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How To Get More Energy: 8 New Secrets Backed By Research
'd all like to know how to get more energy when life throws curve balls at us. These ideas from psychology research can help you keep going and overcome a terminal case of I-don't-feel-like-it. Let's get started... 1) Do The "Obvious Trio" Yeah, yeah, I said this would be "new" secrets but we have to get these three obvious ones out of the way now. Everybody says you should get more sleep, exercise and eat better. And, of course, they're right. But…
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How To Focus: 5 Research-Backed Secrets To Concentration
question a lot of us are struggling with these days is "how to focus." Concentration seems hard. Why does everyone joke about having ADD? There's a reason... Ed Hallowell, former professor at Harvard Medical School and bestselling author of Driven to Distraction, says we have “culturally generated ADD.” Via CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Handling Your Fast- Paced Life: Having treated ADD since 1981, I began to see an upsurge in the mid-1990s in the number of…
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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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How To Be Creative: 6 Secrets Backed By Research
ether it's at work or in our free time, many of us would love to learn how to be creative. Coming up with great ideas and new perspectives is a blast. But "thinking different" is not something we really get taught in school. So how do you become an innovator? I called an expert to find out. Scott Barry Kaufman is the scientific director of the Imagination Institute in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He's also the co-author of the…
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How To Manage Your Time: 5 Secrets Backed By Research
's the problem we all face at the office: how to manage your time. You're so overwhelmed with meetings and email that you always wonder if you're really getting anything done. And often, you're not. But one expert has an answer to how to make sure you're getting ahead in your career while being less stressed and enjoying your work more. Cal Newport knows something about getting stuff done. In the decade after he graduated college he published 4 books, earned a PhD from…
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NYPD Hostage Negotiators On How To Persuade People: 4 New Secrets
m pretty sure I just heard a gunshot. And that means she's dead. Hold on, I guess I better back up and explain... A 911 call came in. A domestic dispute turned into a hostage situation. The perpetrator has a gun on his wife and child. ESU (Emergency Services Unit, basically, the SWAT team) arrived, as did 4 NYPD hostage negotiators. And me. We stacked up outside the door to the apartment. But things were not going well. Shouting between the husband and wife was…
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This Is The Lazy Way To Stop Procrastinating, Backed By Research
u want to stop procrastinating? What if I told there was a solution that involved fun. In fact, it lets you do the thing you love most in the world. No willpower or discipline necessary. It's backed by scientific research and even has a cool name: "temptation bundling." And oddly enough, it all starts with "The Hunger Games." Seriously... How Katniss Killed Procrastination Katherine Milkman loves audiobooks. Especially the Hunger Games series. What she didn't love was going to the gym.…
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