Love What You Do: 4 Things That Will Make You Happier At Work
metimes your job can really be a grind -- but quitting isn't always a realistic option. So what can you do to become happier with the job you have? Here are four stories from the latest research that can make your job more meaningful and make you happier at the office. Change Your Job Description Cleaning the floors in a hospital isn't anyone's dream job. Emptying trash cans in patient rooms doesn't feel special or important. But what if you had…
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How You Can Turn A Performance Review Into A Great Learning Experience
thing can improve your performance like solid feedback can. However, none of us likes being criticized, judged, or told what to do. And our first instinct is usually to ignore feedback or even do the opposite. I never said life was simple, folks. Dan Coyle, author of The Talent Code, and Cal Newport, author of So Good They Can’t Ignore You, both consider feedback essential to peak performance. Merely being the kind of person who seeks out feedback is linked to…
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3 Ways Elephants And Neuroscience Can Help You Make Better Decisions
erything You Know About Neuroscience is Wrong Here's a fancy brain picture for you: Research says that's likely to make you think I know what I'm talking about -- even if I don't. Via The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us: In one clever experiment, David McCabe and Alan Castel had subjects read one of two descriptions of a fictitious research study. The text was identical, but one description was accompanied by a typical three-dimensional brain image with activated areas drawn…
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8 Things The Most Successful People Do That Make Them Great
ere's A Right Way To Learn Want to be more successful? Actually, that's not ambitious enough -- want to be the best? I do. So I called my friend Daniel Coyle, author of the best books on getting better at anything: The Talent Code and The Little Book of Talent. Dan knows that the "10,000 hour rule" is nice but you need to align your effort with the way your brain was designed to learn. Hours are vital but you can get to mastery faster…
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Lessons From The Samurai: The Secret To Always Being At Your Best
ading a few books by samurai there was one thing I saw repeated again and again and again that surprised me. It has nothing to do with swords, fighting or strategy. Actually, quite the opposite when you think about it. What did so many of history's greatest warriors stress as key to success and optimal performance? "Being calm." And it wasn't one random samurai mentioning it off the cuff. We're talking about some of the greatest samurai who ever lived writing about…
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8 Steps To Getting The Perfect Mentor For You
entors, mentors, mentors. Everyone's always talking about them but no one really seems to know how to get a good one. Thanks to the internet we have more information than ever -- but not any more wisdom. Contacting mentors is one of the things I think you should do every week.…
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The Two Words That Will Lead You To Success And Happiness
riously: Just Two Words Seems like this should be a very short post, right? Here's the quick and dirty: The word "yes" leads to happiness. The word "no" leads to success. Here's why. For Happiness Say Yes "Yes" creates opportunity. Saying yes a lot makes more things happen. And research shows that lots of little good things are the path to happiness. Spending money on many little pleasures beats rare big positives. Via The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy, but…
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The Single Most Proven Way To Get Smarter And Happier
s, It's This Simple Many of the fixes for our problems aren't complex -- something that's clear in the things I recommend people do every day. What's a scientifically validated way to get smarter, happier, healthier and calmer? Stop reading this right now and go for a walk. It's that simple. Here's why. Exercise Powers The Body -- And The Mind They used to say you don't grow new brain cells. They were wrong. Via Spark: The Revolutionary New Science…
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