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Flourishing: Seeing Challenges, Not Threats
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Musings on personal growth, self-improvement, happiness and life in general. Friday, January 25, 2013. Seeing Challenges, Not Threats. Tomorrow you’re going to give a presentation to your most important client. Or you’re going to face the toughest player in a tennis tournament. Or your manager just handed you a critical project. How do we react when faced with these challenging situations? What makes them different? Sheds some light on this. The article shows that we can be taught how to prepare for this.
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Flourishing: July 2013
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Musings on personal growth, self-improvement, happiness and life in general. Friday, July 26, 2013. By James Clear summarizes the research of Amy Cuddy, a Harvard University researcher, who studies body language. It includes a link to Cuddy's original article on what she calls Power Poses and her TED talk. Check it out! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Subscribe in a reader. View my complete profile.
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Flourishing: December 2011
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Musings on personal growth, self-improvement, happiness and life in general. Wednesday, December 28, 2011. Saving the New Year - Megan McArdle. This post by Megan McArdle doesn't at first glance appear to fall in the category of self-development and yet I feel it's worth sharing for her basic advice. Saving the New Year - Megan McArdle - Business - The Atlantic. The important thing is to. Savings should be the first thing you do, not the last. After you've saved,. Saturday, December 24, 2011. Henry Scuot...
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Flourishing: October 2013
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Musings on personal growth, self-improvement, happiness and life in general. Tuesday, October 22, 2013. The Difference Between Saying "I Don't" versus "I Can't". Reveals the drastic affect of saying "I don't" do something such as eating a tempting snack or skipping an exercise session versus saying "I can't" allow myself to eat that snack or skip my workout. The author explains why. Be sure to check the links in the article for the research behind this conclusion. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Flourishing: December 2012
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Musings on personal growth, self-improvement, happiness and life in general. Friday, December 14, 2012. The Science of Productivity. This short article,. The Science of Productivity. By Gregory Ciotti, covers a lot of bases and gives good advice (I think) based on recent research on our the brain works. Ciotti leads off with the finding that willpower is a limited resource and "can be used up in it's entirety! So it's important to manage this limited resource with the techniques in this article. Henry Sc...
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Flourishing: January 2013
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Musings on personal growth, self-improvement, happiness and life in general. Friday, January 25, 2013. Seeing Challenges, Not Threats. Tomorrow you’re going to give a presentation to your most important client. Or you’re going to face the toughest player in a tennis tournament. Or your manager just handed you a critical project. How do we react when faced with these challenging situations? What makes them different? Sheds some light on this. The article shows that we can be taught how to prepare for this.
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Flourishing: November 2011
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Musings on personal growth, self-improvement, happiness and life in general. Monday, November 14, 2011. In the Boston Globe nicely summarizes a book I just finished reading, Willpower: Rediscovering The Greatest Human Strength. By Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney. Willpower, it turns out, is one of the most important predictors of success in life. Thursday, November 10, 2011. Video Critique: Steve Jobs (Stanford Commencement, 2005) Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Henry Scuoteguaz...
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Common Sense Ethics - Growing In Goodness
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Follow Common Sense Ethics:. Politeness: The Secret Weapon to Winning an Argument? It's election season, so you may need these polite catch phrases to use if a political debate turns sour:. Ldquo;I think you have a made a good point, but I feel… “. Ldquo;I agree that x is y, but please consider my point that…”. Ldquo;I respect what you are saying.”. Ldquo;I have heard you out. Would you kindly allow me to speak without interruption? From my most recent post on Brainfodder. 8203;It seems to me that...
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Flourishing: September 2012
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Musings on personal growth, self-improvement, happiness and life in general. Friday, September 14, 2012. What's Wrong With Self-Help Books? Megan McArdle has some interesting observations in. What's Wrong With Self-Help Books? If I can fairly summarize her thesis this attitude towards self-help books stems from intellectuals’ elitism: they are so intelligent and above it all that they don’t need to heed the pedestrian advice offered in these books. She could be right. Yep Are some just plain wrong? IR...
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Flourishing: July 2011
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Musings on personal growth, self-improvement, happiness and life in general. Sunday, July 17, 2011. Winning Body Language Review. I've read a number of books on body language so when I started to read Winning Body Language. I expected just more of the same. I was wrong. Mark Bowden, author of Winning Body Language, offers some different advice than the usual based on his own approach called the TruthPlane. Placing your hands in the TruthPlane is the. While most of our gestures would occur in the TruthPla...
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