personal growth
Here are some practical ways to disagree and get along with someone at the same time.
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Research from MIT reveals common habits and skills present among highly productive managers.
Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a well-known model of human development, but Maslow’s friend and colleague Kazimierz Dąbrowski believed humans developed in a different way.
Want to learn better? Here’s a lesson from cognitive psychology.
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Here’s what to say in an era where many people are too afraid to say anything.
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Grief is real. Give it time.
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In McMindfulness, Ronald Purser says modern mindfulness is dictated more by market forces than ethics.
“Having a high level of patience often isn’t something that comes naturally; instead, it is something that improves over time”
Pulitzer Prize-winner Jared Diamond explains why some nations make it through epic crises and why others fail.
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Want to be smarter than you were yesterday? Learn to have better conversations using these 3 design principles.
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Try not to think about your hands. Now enjoy a few minutes of not being able to stop thinking about them.
Bishop Omar Jahwar explains that before mentors can inspire others, they have to be inspired themselves.
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Sometimes the way to rise to the top is by moving sideways.
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Why Django Reinhardt might just be the greatest musical innovator you’ve never heard of.
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Changing people’s minds isn’t how we end polarization. Tolerance is the gateway to peaceful coexistence.
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Symbols are often used to help people get an idea of higher, often ineffable, truths.
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New research suggests that we should think twice before asking for input from a very wide range of people.
Here’s why “glue people” won’t get steamrolled by job automation.
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Don’t underestimate the power of play when it comes to problem-solving.
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Harvard psychologists discover why we dislike the people who deliver bad news.
The Flynn effect shows people have gotten smarter, but some research claims those IQ gains are regressing. Can both be right?
We mistakenly think a lack of productivity means employees just don’t care.
A new study shows that most people have advice for their younger self that tends towards a few important areas.
By working together, and learning from one another, we can build better systems.
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Here’s why generalists triumph over specialists in the new era of innovation.
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We may not learn and grow beyond the #MeToo era if we keep thinking in black and white, says comedian Pete Holmes.
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Eli Pariser explains why we can’t just think of civility as being polite to one another.
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Stop prescribing advice and start helping people come up with their own solutions.
If the only advice you’ve heard on public speaking is to imagine the audience in their underwear, this article’s for you.
Here’s how we can use the concept of “impact impression” for criminal reform.
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