Distraction
How to Quit Thinking Too Much
Everybody occasionally obsesses over unresolved personal issues. Who hasn’t thought back on a cruel remark or inadvertent injury we may have caused someone? It’s normal to feel bad about something you did or something that happened to you. Rumination can lead to more issues, even though it’s normal for the disagreements we’ve had, the unpleasant things that have happened to us, and the important choices we’ve had to make to haunt us.
How to Deal with a Distracting Supervisor
Check to see if you can identify with Sarah. She is a software developer who enjoys her work, with the exception of Tom, her manager. Even when Sara is attempting to concentrate on her work, Tom views everything as a catastrophe that warrants interruption. Tom called Sarah one morning as she was working on a crucial feature and asked her to put everything on hold so she could assist with an urgent report for the CMO.
How to Develop an Unstoppable Reading Habit
You couldn’t pay me to read a book on business or self-help when I was growing up. I currently read 60 to 80 novels annually. A decent non-fiction book only costs a few dollars and is the culmination of years of research and insight. Without having to put in the effort or endure the hardships the author did, why wouldn’t you take advantage of such an inexpensive and effective method to learn life-altering lessons?
Consumer Psychology
The Four Keys to Effective Business Storytelling
At their core, all effective leaders, marketers, and business owners are excellent storytellers. With roots in behavioral design, psychology, and neuroscience, storytelling is more than just an art.
Does Psychiatry Make Us Ill?
The mental health system is seriously flawed. It frequently prolongs cycles of reliance on therapy, medicine, and diagnoses rather than promoting healing. Rather of serving as instruments for healing, psychiatric diagnoses—which are inherently unreliable—have come to define who we are.
Sales Psychology: The Reasons Behind Your Bad Purchase Decisions
Did you come to the realization that you need to purchase more wisely after returning so many gifts in January? We are inundated with advertisements and sales pitches that employ psychological strategies to capture our interest over the holidays. We find it difficult to make wise purchasing decisions because of these messages.
Habits
The Pain Paradox: How Pain Is Increased by Fear of Pain
A clinical white sign that reads “Sofi Tukker Center for Asses That Don’t Move Good” is scanned by the camera in the first scene of the music video for “Throw Some Ass.” A cardiac monitor in the makeshift hospital flatlines until the pulse slows. The music video abruptly bursts into a sensuous, NSFW frenzy.
The Reasons Behind Your Constant Business and Lack of Productivity (and How to Fix It)
The majority of us merely strive to stay up without giving much thought to how we spend our work time. However, managing our most valuable resource is the key to working smarter, not harder. Fortunately, timeboxing, the best time-management strategy, is at our disposal. To make sure that every kind of work is given the credit it deserves, Sahil Bloom further deconstructs timeboxing categories in the work domain.
The Unexpectedly Powerful Argument for Good Fortune in Sales
In 2003, my spouse and I launched our first company. We made thousands of in-home sales calls while selling solar panels on Long Island, New York. We had a small ceremony before we went into a prospective customer’s house. Before opening our car doors and saying, “Let’s go sell a solar system,” we always exchanged glances.
Motivation
Why Trying to Get Approval Kills Your Potential
When someone loves your post, you get a rush of joy. the glowing feeling you get when your boss compliments your presentation. the mild anxiousness that occurs when you receive criticism rather than appreciation for your job. Does that sound familiar?
Fail! Make a lot of mistakes! It Benefits You
The human experience is inherently characterized by failure. Why, then, do we handle it so poorly? We are deterred from trying new things by our fear of being judged and the shame associated with our failures. Rumination and negative self-talk persuade us that our shortcomings make us unworthy and unable. However, failure is common in all occupations.
Luck is only possessed by those who believe in it.
Richard Branson is the first to admit that he is generally fortunate in both life and business. In the early 1970s, he and his then-wife survived a shipwreck that no other passengers did by jumping off the boat in a storm and swimming to shore. He is an adrenaline junkie who has experienced multiple near-death experiences. Branson is not the first extremely wealthy individual who claims that good fortune was on their side.
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