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Learning to Love a Job You Hate
The downturn of the last few years has left a number of scars on the psyche of the American worker. The Great Recession toppled a number of business giants; and while some were deemed “too big to fail” many titans … Continue reading
Your Career and Happiness
The early study of psychology was a pretty bleak affair. True to its desire to be a medical profession (and thus, taken seriously) psychology began by studying pathology. From these days we get many of the terms we know associate … Continue reading
3 Tips for Effective Delegation
Our survey of recommendations and pointers concerning time management would not be complete if we did not cast our glance in one final direction—toward delegation. Perhaps I’m alone in this, but delegation has always felt like a foreign and distant … Continue reading
Tips for Managing Your Physical Environment
The Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University have made a rather interesting discovery this past year, which is reported in full in the Journal of Neuroscience. Their findings in brief: top-down attention is constrained by the output of bottom-up processes, such … Continue reading
Tips for Managing Information
If knowledge is power, then information serves as the stations that relay it. The problem is that we regularly find ourselves in the predicament of having more information than we know what to do with—if there is anything to do … Continue reading
How to Plan Your Day
“It may be observed in general,” the 18th century essayist Samuel Johnson once declared, “that the future is purchased by the present.” This echoes a piece of advice that Confucius captured with his regular snappiness, “People who do not think … Continue reading
3 Ways to Have Better Ideas
I’ve got some good news and some bad news. Bad news first you say? Okay. So, all of the research points to the fact that your ideas aren’t all that original. Instead, they are an amalgamation of a bunch of … Continue reading
Where Do Good Ideas Come From?
We tend to think of idea creation as sterile, asexual, and hard to manage. We assume that great ideas spring forth, fully formed into the minds of geniuses who bear little resemblance to you or me. Eureka moments are created … Continue reading
What is Affect Heuristic?
One of the reasons psychologists can charge $200 per hour to ask, “how does that make you feel?” is because we have become great at putting fancy-pants labels on things that would otherwise be very intuitive. Take for instance the … Continue reading
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