Why Thinking Like a Scientist Is Good for You

Organizational psychologist Adam Grant explains the importance of questioning our knowledge and opinions in the face of new evidence.

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Top 10 Tips for Better Writing

Writing is a great way to express yourself, work through your own thoughts, and all-around exercise your brain. In honor of NaNoWriMo and writing week here at Lifehacker, here are some of our favorite ways to improve your writing. While there's something to be said for spontaneous writing, it really helps if you sit down and organize your thoughts beforehand.

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Top 5 Ways to Start the Year Off Right

What is success to you? How to be successful in life? To some, when they think of success, they imagine wealth; others want power; some just want to make a positive impact on the world. All of these are perfectly valid, indeed success is a concept that means different things to different people.

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Choose Growth

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How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

"When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity." Rating: 9/10 Related: Read more on Amazon Get the full index of lessons here How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is a self-help classic that reads as a life manual.

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LIFE LESSONS - 10 IDEAS THAT WILL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THE MECHANICS OF LIFE

Life lessons are usually learned the hard way. It doesn't always need to be like that. Read this article and life will make more sense than ever before.

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How to Win an Argument, According to Science

2 min read Whether you're right or wrong, winning an argument can be a challenge. Luckily, with a few simple tricks, you can learn how to debate like a pro. For starters, rather than coming off aggressively, start a conversation.

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What are the Core Ideas of Self-Improvement? | Scott H Young

In any field, there are a few ideas that are core to understanding everything else. Biology makes little sense without evolution. Physics without symmetries and conservation laws is baffling. All mathematics can be built out of sets. Self-improvement isn't usually regarded as an intellectual field.

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7 Strategies to Deal With Difficult Family Members

Difficult people are everywhere, like it or not. It's pretty certain that at some point in your life, you'll come across a challenging person and will have to find a way to deal with them. It would be easy to think, "Why bother?" if being around them causes you grief.

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Work on Your Strengths, Not Your Weaknesses

Think of something you want to improve about yourself. How would you categorize the thing you chose: Is it a strength or a weakness?In all likelihood, you chose a weakness. A study from 2016 found that we tend to see weaknesses as more changeable than strengths-which means we're more...

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Know Yourself

Know Yourself - Articles from The School of Life, formerly The Book of Life, a gathering of the best ideas around wisdom and emotional intelligence.

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6 Speed Reading Tips for Students

You may be old enough to remember Evelyn Wood's name as being synonymous with speed reading and speed learning. She was the founder of Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics. Her former business partner, H. Bernard Wechsler, shares six of the techniques successful speed readers use.

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The Power of Delay : zen habits

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Exactly What to Say

Phil M. Jones has trained more than two million people across five continents and over fifty countries in the lost art of spoken communication. In Exactly What to Say, he delivers the tactics you need to get more of what you want.

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Most influential theories of learning

Learning is defined as a process that brings together personal and environmental experiences and influences for acquiring, enriching or modifying one's knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, behaviour and world views. Learning theories develop hypotheses that describe how this process takes place. The scientific study of learning started in earnest at the dawn of the 20th century.

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7 Mindful Ways to Handle Complicated People at Work

Complicated work situations are not a rare occurrence. Many of us have had a difficult co-worker to deal with at some point in our careers. From people who don't submit their work in time or don't show up for meetings, to people who just can't work in a team or who are overly competitive.

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The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader

“The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader gets straight to the heart of leadership issues. Maxwell once again touches on the process of developing the art of leadership by giving the reader practical tools and insights into developing the qualities found in great leaders.” - Kenneth Blanchard, Coauthor of The One Minute Manager® “Dr. John Maxwell is the authority on leadership today. His innovative yet timeless principles on how to effectively lead others have personally impacted my life and my business. This is a must-read for any organization that wants to succeed in the new millennium.” -Peter Lowe, President of Peter Lowe International and Peter Lowe’s SUCCESS Seminars “My dear friend John Maxwell has proven his ability to lead leaders. I anticipate learning even more from his new book.” -Max Lucado, Author of Just Like Jesus

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6 Profound Quotes from "12 Rules for Life" by Jordan Peterson

Since discovering Jordan Peterson's YouTube channel last year, I've become completely amazed by the amount of incredible information produced by this single individual. His book, "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos" is the first book that I've ever pre-ordered in my entire life, and I've bought roughly 100 books in the last three years.

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Nonconformity Quotes to Help You Resist the Crowd

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9 Things Happy, Successful People Choose to Ignore

"Life is to be enjoyed, not endured." ―Gordon B. Hinckley The president and co-founder of a local charity that directly cares for homeless people in our area is a 38-year-old musician and tattoo artist who's covered from head to toe with tattoos and piercings, and has long brown dreadlocks that dangle below his waistline.

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