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Workplace
I used to think that keeping relationships smooth and never criticising anyone directly was the way to hold a team toge…
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Personal Growth
At West Point, the cadets who made it through gruelling training weren't the most gifted — they were the grittiest. Her…
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Psychology
Wherever there are people, you'll find a few with very little ability who are utterly convinced of their own brilliance…
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Psychology
High-pressure "life coaching" courses and cults lean on the same psychological levers: cutting you off from the outside…
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Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a mental-training tool now backed by a large body of psychological research. Here a meditation teacher e…
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Workplace
A while ago we came across a wonderfully entertaining exercise called the Marshmallow Challenge. It is simple and great…
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Mindfulness
If you have looked into mindfulness, you have probably come across MBCT and MBSR. Here is what each one actually involv…
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Psychology
Modern psychology studies the mind with the empirical method — so do we still need philosophy at all? It turns out ther…
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Psychology
Faced with a hard choice, the mind reaches for the answer that feels easiest, not the one that is best. Drawing on Thin…
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Pseudoscience
The Law of Attraction promises that strong enough belief will pull whatever you want out of the universe. It is dressed…
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