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The hidden power of smiling

11/11/2020 /

In this TED Talk, Ron Gutman reviews a raft of studies about smiling, and reveals some surprising results. Did you know your smile can be a predictor of how long you’ll live, and that a simple smile has a measurable effect on your overall well-being?

So whenever you want to look great and competent, reduce your stress or improve your marriage, or feel as if you just had a whole stack of high-quality chocolate without incurring the caloric cost, or whenever you want to tap into a superpower that will help you and everyone around you live a longer, healthier, happier life, smile.

Image: Smile – Kristo (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) 

4 Ways to Focus Better

04/11/2020 /

To perform better at work, learn new skills, be more productive, make decisions, study smarter, and make progress in basically anything that involves your brain, it’s advisable to work on how to focus better.

Your attention is your biggest asset, so it’s important to keep it where it’s supposed to be — on the task at hand that is getting you one step closer to achieving your goals and dreams.

However, it can become a struggle to stay concentrated on the one activity, task, or even person, in front of us.

This article, presents 4 proven techniques on how to focus better:

  1. Identify any distraction in your surroundings, then remove it
  2. Train your willpower muscle
  3. Give meditation a try
  4. Do one thing at a time

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10 Invaluable Books for Moving Hearts and Minds

28/10/2020 /

The Roman philosopher Epictetus once said, “Books are the training weights of the mind”.

Reading is an exercise that enriches the way we think, feel, and behave. Reading makes it possible to reach a new understanding about ourselves and the world and to expand our knowledge.

In this article, Paul Jun draws up a subjective list of the books he feels are timeless and helpful in both our personal and professional endeavors. Actually reading reflects a willingness to learn and change minds, to be open to new ideas and concepts that may indeed bolster both personal and professional endeavors.

Here is the list:

1. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Gregory Hays translation)

2. Mastery by Robert Greene

3. Daring Greatly by Brené Brown

4. Linchpin by Seth Godin

5. inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity by Tina Seelig

6. Lying by Sam Harris

7. Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits by Debbie Millman

8. Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War edited by Larry Hedrick

9. Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield

10. How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One by Stanley Fish

 

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