It’s easy to think of the highly self-disciplined as being miserable misers or uptight Puritans, but it turns out that exerting self-control can make you happier not only in the long run, but also in the moment. The research, which was published in the Journal of Personality, showed that self-control isn’t just about deprivation, but more about managing conflicting goals. The researchers found a strong connection between higher…
Why Self-Disciplined People Are Happier
Why Do We Remember Faces but not Names?
It’s happened to all of us: We’re at an event and recognize peoples’ faces all over the room, but names utterly escape us. Don’t feel bad. When it comes to linking faces and names, the deck is stacked against us from evolutionary, neuroanatomical, and practical perspectives. For starters, our brains are far better equipped at storing visual data, such as a face, than a briefly…
How to Analyze Your Dreams
Dream analysis is actually a valuable way to better understand yourself. Why We Dream According to Sumber, who studied global dream mythology at Harvard University and Jungian dream interpretation at the Jung Institute in Zurich, Dreaming is non-essential when it comes to survival as a body but is essential with regard to our development and evolution as metaphysical beings. Dreaming is the communication between our…
4 Ways To Make Your Workspace More Productive
What’s happening around you can be just as important as what’s going on in your head. Open floor plans might promote collaboration, but they are clearly hotbeds of distraction. So there’s a trade-off: More collaboration, less productivity. It turns out, for example, that bad weather is good for productivity. It all comes down to distractions, according to a Harvard Business School study. The more distracted people…
Daily Minor Stressors Impact Long-Term Mental Health
A new study finds that our emotional responses to everyday stressors impact our long term mental health. A Ten Year Study Dr. Susan Charles of the University of California, Irvine and her colleagues used data from two national surveys to examine the relationship between how people respond to daily emotional stressors and the state of their mental health ten years later. A major strength of…
The 12 Cognitive Biases That Prevent You From Being Rational (Part 2)
Humans are subject to cognitive biases, those annoying glitches in our thinking that cause us to make questionable decisions and reach erroneous conclusions. Here are the most common and pernicious cognitive biases that you need to know about. Status-Quo Bias We humans tend to be apprehensive of change, which often leads us to make choices that guarantee that things remain the same, or change as…
The 12 Cognitive Biases That Prevent You From Being Rational (Part 1)
A cognitive bias is a genuine deficiency or limitation in our thinking — a flaw in judgment that arises from errors of memory, social attribution, and miscalculations (such as statistical errors or a false sense of probability). Some social psychologists believe our cognitive biases help us process information more efficiently, especially in dangerous situations. Still, they lead us to make grave mistakes. We may be…
How Successful People Approach A New Year
Want to come out ahead in 2013? Here are the resolutions the most successful people make and then keep for both business goals and personal gain. 1. Spend more time on your not-to-do list. 2. Do what’s essential first, then email second. 3. Not make excuses. Not cheat. Not waste time. 4. Books are important. 5. Take time to do something slower than you normally…
New Year’s Resolutions – How To Keep Your 2013 Resolutions
13 New Year’s Resolutions – and How to Keep Them 1. Lose the Weight From wearing a pedometer to surrounding yourself with the color blue, there are all kinds of small changes that can help you finally drop those extra pounds. Make a commitment that 2013 will be the year you get rid of what’s weighing you down. 2. Get Organized If your home is…
10 Tools For Dealing With Holiday Depression
There has been a long standing myth that suicide rates increase over the holiday season. According to the Mayo Clinic, this is completely false. What is true is that the rates of depression and stress do increase. Here are ten solid tools to help you and deal if Santa also brings you some holiday blues. Keep your expectations balanced. You won’t get everything you want, things will go wrong, and…