Posts Tagged ‘Psychology’
One Analogy That Can Save You Time and Energy in Life: Focus on the Safe Water While Paddling
In any challenge, you can focus on what could go wrong or what could go right. By focusing on the positive outcome, you make it more likely to happen.
Read MoreBook Summary: “The Happiness Advantage”
Shawn Achor’s book “The Happiness Advantage” helped me understand the power of happiness and realize it’s a cause—not a byproduct—of success.
Read MoreBrilliant Life Advice from Will Arnett: You Can Choose Your Own Weather
Will Arnett and Viktor Frankl both explain that you can CHOOSE whether today will be a good day or a bad day. You can choose your own weather.
Read MoreBook Summary: “The Biggest Bluff”
Journalist Maria Konnikova wanted to learn more about the flaws in her own decision-making, so she decided to spend one year learning poker…
Read MoreThe Kobayashi Effect: What a Guy Eating 50 Hotdogs Can Teach You About Human Potential
Once someone accomplishes a seemingly impossible task, a psychological seal is broken, enabling others to complete the task even faster.
Read MoreHow Unfamiliarity Bias Affects Who Gets Promoted
What causes companies to opt for external candidates so often instead of promoting internal employees? “Unfamiliarity bias” helps explain it.
Read MoreMy Struggle with Impostor Syndrome
It all started when I got a Director role at my company. Then I began to question myself: do I really deserve this role? What if I screw up?
Read MoreBook Summary: “Factfulness”
Factfulness book review: I read over 70 books per year, and this is the best book I’ve read in a while. It’s poignant, hopeful, and timely.
Read MoreBook Summary: “Thinking in Bets”
Thinking in Bets is an exposé of our illogical thinking patterns, told by a poker pro schooled in graduate-level psychology.
Read MoreBook Summary: “Give and Take”
Give and Take book review: Wharton business professor Adam Grant explores whether “nice guys” truly do finish last.
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