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I’ve decided to post some of my favourite videos from all over the net in a weekly feature. To start off, here’s a great TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson on how our education system is killing creativity. Try not to get distracted by Sir Ken’s many witty comments, because the core message is a [...]
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Image by gwylow71 Mihály Csíkszentmihályi – what looks like the result of me randomly banging my forehead against the keyboard is actually the name of an academic who is one of the pioneers of positive psychology. He coined the term “flow” as a particular state of mind and concentration, sometimes also referred to as “optimal [...]
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In my previous post on the subject of procrastination, I presented a brief definition of “problematic procrastination” and offered one unconventional reframe that can help you beat this bad habit. In this post, I will take it one step further and show you how you can combine this reframe with a simple method to improve [...]
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It occurred to me recently that I have already mentioned “reframes” in past articles (most recently in this one about procrastination), but never explained what meaning of the term I was referring to. In this post, I will briefly explain what a mental reframe is and show you how reframes can be helpful as well [...]
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Below, you’ll find a video featuring a short interview with Derren Brown. It’s worth seeing for several reasons, one of them being that anything with Derren Brown in it is worth seeing. Yes, I’m a fan. Another reason I will get into after you’ve given the interview a look. In case you don’t know who [...]
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Building productive habits is key to any kind of personal development, no doubt about that. Unfortunately, building new habits also tends to be very, very difficult. In this post, I will introduce two key factors that make habit-building so difficult. These factors are habituation and homeostasis, and while they can be your worst enemies, when [...]
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Building habits is key to personal progress and success. If you manage to continually build new, positive habits that increase your productivity, your skills or your happiness, then you are obviously on a fast track to a wonderful life. But, as you probably know, it can be very challenging to build a new habit up [...]
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The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that warps our ability to judge our own competence. To put it very bluntly, stupid people tend to think that they are quite brilliant, because they are too stupid to tell that they are, in fact, stupid.
(Don’t worry, I know it’s a bit more subtle than that.)
The effect is named after Justin Kruger and David Dunning, who discovered it by doing a series of tests…
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How do you decide what restaurant to go to, which movie to see, what pants to wear today? And what about big and important decisions like what career-path to choose, where to settle down and buy a house or whether to have kids or not? To some extent every decision we make is based on predictions. We imagine what an evening at one restaurant would be like versus an evening at a different one and make our desicion based on where we imagine we will have more fun, get better food and other criteria.
Interestingly, there are some systematic mistakes we tend to make when we imagine such future events and this can lead us to making bad decisions…
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