5 Non-Evil Ways To Get People To Do What You Want, From Dan Pink
ve posted about getting people to like you, winning arguments and FBI methods for negotiation -- but let's take it to the next level. There are ways to deal with people who are difficult but brass tacks here, folks: most of the people who cause you problems aren't going anywhere. You work with them, you live with them, heck, in many cases you love them, but the people closest to us can still cause a lot of problems. How do we…
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How To Get People To Like You: 7 Ways From An FBI Behavior Expert
eeting new people can be awkward. What should you say? How can you make a good impression? How do you keep a conversation going? Research shows relationships are vital to happiness and networking is the key to getting jobs and building a fulfilling career. But what's the best way to…
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How To Be Efficient: Dan Ariely’s 6 New Secrets To Managing Your Time
's hard to be efficient. Sometimes it feels like the world doesn't make any sense. Sometimes you don't make any sense. And sometimes it feels like it's all a conspiracy. As we'll see shortly, these are all, in a way, true. Dan Ariely is the king of irrational behavior. Not that he's more irrational than you or I, but he's studied an impressive amount of it. Dan is a behavioral economist at Duke University and the New York Times bestselling author of…
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How To Go From Dreaming To Doing: 4 Steps To Motivation
u have stuff you know you should be doing. But it doesn’t get done. You need to go from dreaming to doing -- but it's hard. You want to accomplish more at work, hit the gym, get a new job or study harder at school… but it’s not happening. I’ve talked about strategies to make challenges easier like the 20 second rule. But what if you’re just not starting in the first place? What gets you going when you’re not motivated to reach those longer term…
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Be More Successful: New Harvard Research Reveals A Fun Way To Do It
e all want to be more successful. But everything you read probably sounds like a lot of work. Isn't there a scientifically proven method that's a little more... fun? There is. Shawn Achor is the bestselling author of The Happiness Advantage and for years at Harvard he studied exactly that: happiness. He gave an…
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4 Things Millionaires Have In Common, Backed By Research
at do millionaires do differently? Are they harder workers? Do they have brains that can bend spoons? Do they exhibit Bond Villain levels of cunning? For their books The Millionaire Next Door and The Millionaire Mind the authors surveyed over 700 millionaires to find out. 80% were self-made, accruing all their wealth in one generation. And they were doing a number of things you and I probably aren't. Here are a few patterns the researchers saw: 1) Most Millionaires Are Self-Employed Got a great idea for a business?…
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How The Most Successful People Manage Their Time
here does the time go?" I say it. I'm sure you say it a lot. We seek work-life balance but it seems there's never enough time to get it all done. And yet we all know there are people who accomplish a lot more than we do in a day -- and they don't have magic powers. How do the most successful people manage their time? Laura Vanderkam talked to a number of those people (including productivity expert David Allen and…
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How To Get Respect: 5 Points Backed By Science
all want to know how to get respect. Research shows respect is key to both your love life and your career. But it's difficult. Others size you up very quickly. For instance, people evaluate how attractive you are in 13 milliseconds. Yes, milliseconds. And first impressions matter more than you think. They’re the most important part of any job interview. And once set, they're hard to change. So how do you get respect? Let’s look at the research and see what works --…
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