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A lot of success in life will come down to your ability to interact with others and to network. While many of us might like to think that we are islands and that we can go it alone, ultimately life is much more fulfilling and much more augmented with the help of others. If you … Read more
Two of the most important character traits you need to possess if you want to have successful relationships is to be honest and trustworthy. There are of course diplomatic ways to be honest so you don’t hurt each other’s feelings. But in general, being trustworthy is all about each person in the romantic partnership feeling … Read more
When we lose a loved one there are a lot of questions that we ask. One of them is what happens to all of the deceased’s belongings. It’s important to find out if the person had a will when he or she died, spelling out what he wanted done with his estate. Sometimes when going … Read more
The drive to improve yourself is something that should always be commended. If you make a habit of self-improvement, then this of course increases the likelihood that you will improve with time. This in turn should hopefully lead to you being more efficient, happier, healthier, more confident etc. The better you get, the better you … Read more
Most of us live fairly boring and uneventful lives. Think yourself lucky: for the most part, an ‘exciting’ life will mean trials and hardships that you would be better off not having to face. But while we don’t have to live life as warriors, it’s nevertheless true that many of us will look to warriors … Read more
Many of us wanted to be amazing things when we were younger. Some of us wanted to be astronauts, some of us wanted to be rock stars and some of us wanted to be rock stars. Maybe you dreamed of owning your own business. Then you reached your twenties and realized that achieving those dreams … Read more
Steve Jobs was famously wary of decision fatigue. Like many people, he believed that the brain has a limited capacity for making decisions during any given day and that by the end of the day, we might well be left with an impaired ability to concentrate, make choices and generally function optimally. Jobs’ solution to … Read more
It’s not exactly news that office jobs aren’t good for us. This is something we’ve known now for a long time and more and more evidence is only supporting this view. Perhaps most damning are the recent studies on the negative effects of sitting at work. These show us that sitting for long stretches at … Read more
It must have felt unnatural at first, to eat animal flesh. After all, we’re not so far removed from animals ourselves. Perhaps it even felt cannibalistic. There might not have been that much intellectual distinction between humans and other animals. When humans were pure vegetarians, they were living in harmony with the earth and with … Read more
people procrastinate, they do it in an effort to avoid an unpleasant or less desirable task they want to avoid doing. They think that if they avoid doing that task, it will be easier to complete the project they are working on. In truth, procrastination only makes you work harder to accomplish the project you … Read more