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Neuroscience Discovers 5 Things That Will Make You Happy

So what’s going to make you happy? Let’s get more specific: what’s going to make your brain happy? And let’s focus on things that are simple and easy to do instead of stuff like winning the lottery....

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How To Focus: 5 Research-Backed Secrets To Concentration

A question a lot of us are struggling with these days is “how to focus.” Concentration seems hard. Why does everyone joke about having ADD? There’s a reason… Ed Hallowell, former professor at Harvard...

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How To Get More Energy: 8 New Secrets Backed By Research

We’d all like to know how to get more energy when life throws curve balls at us. These ideas from psychology research can help you keep going and overcome a terminal case of I-don’t-feel-like-it....

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How To Deal With A Narcissist: 5 Secrets Backed By Research

You must be tired of them. They’re everywhere. Narcissists. And if you think there are more of them than ever, you’re right. Research shows we are experiencing a narcissism epidemic. From The...

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How To Tell If Someone Is Lying: 5 Research-Backed Secrets

Wouldn’t it be nice to know how to tell if someone is lying? We’re going to see what the research has to say on detecting lies, avoiding deception and more. And this is the industrial strength...

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This Is The Most Fun Way To Make Your Life Awesome

“Working on your goals” is usually not fun. It’s way too formal and serious. And that’s one of the reasons we quit. So how can you build good habits, improve yourself and have a great life — while...

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How To Negotiate Salary: 5 Secrets Backed By Research

In the history of the world, nobody has ever said, “I make too much money.” And for most of us how much we make is determined during a salary negotiation. I wanted to get the inside dirt on how we can...

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The 4 Rituals That Will Make You An Expert At Anything

We hear a lot about “10,000 hours” being what it takes to become an expert. But the majority of people totally misunderstand the idea. So I decided to go to the source and talk to the guy who actually...

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This Is The #1 Way To A Happy, Healthy, Long Life

Who wants to live a happy, healthy, long life? Yeah, everybody. Turns out an incredible amount of scientific evidence points to one simple answer: Relationships. But why? And what do we really need to...

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How To Be More Confident: 3 Secrets Backed By Research

Want to know how to be more confident? There’s an easy answer: Don’t. Yeah, it’s a trick question. But we’ve all been led to believe that self-confidence or self-esteem is the answer to everything....

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This Is The Lazy Way To Kill Bad Habits: 8 Secrets From Research

Bad habits; we all got’em. You know what they are. You know you should stop. But… it’s hard. In fact, sometimes you feel downright powerless. And you’re not crazy… Research from Duke University shows...

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This Is How To Boost Emotional Resilience: 10 Research-Backed Secrets

Ever dealt with a really difficult situation? We’ve all had our emotional resilience tested. Sometimes it feels like you just want to give up. How do the toughest people summon the will to keep going?...

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This Is The Most Fun Way To Improve Every Part Of Your Life

You don’t celebrate enough. I’m not talking about just having fun for the sake of having fun. Plenty of scientific research shows that celebrating is the key to a better life. We need more high-fives,...

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This Is The Research-Backed Way To Increase Grit

Ever feel like you just wanna give up on something? How can you develop the inner strength necessary to achieve your long term goals? Turns out that grit — the perseverance that keeps us going — is a...

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This Is How To Be Persuasive: 7 New Secrets From Hostage Negotiation

We all have to have difficult conversations. And they’d be easier if you knew how to be persuasive. Whether it’s dealing with family members, buying a car or negotiating a raise, persuasion is always...

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This Is How To Make Good Habits Stick: 6 Secrets From Research

We all want to get to the gym, be more productive, be more kind to our loved ones… and then we don’t do it. Why? Well, building solid personal habits can be hard. In fact, research shows it takes an...

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This Is How To Make Good Decisions: 4 Secrets Backed By Research

Life would be a lot easier if we just knew how to make good decisions. Research shows we all make a lot of bad ones. With careers: More than half of teachers quit their jobs within four years. In...

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This Is How To Read People: 5 Secrets Backed By Research

We’d all like to learn how to read people like Sherlock Holmes. And research shows understanding things like body language is even more powerful than you might think. MIT found that the outcome of...

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This Is How To Easily Improve Your Body Language: 4 Proven Secrets

What is your body language telling others about you? Last week I wrote about how to read other people (you can check that out here.) But being able to evaluate other people’s body language just ain’t...

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This Is How To Be Productive: 5 New Secrets Proven By Research

Want to know how to be productive? Create goals, make a plan and execute. We all know this is a good idea… and it never, ever seems to work. It’s like simplifying boxing down to “Just go into the ring...

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