As emotional beings, it can sometimes be difficult to accurately define a feeling. So much can get lost in translation and leaves something to be desired. Perhaps that’s a part of the reason that so many people have trouble achieving happiness. At times it just seems so elusive and complex. I mean, what is happiness … Read more
Staying positive can be tough. Positivity can start to wain when you are bombarded with a succession of negativity, failures, disappointment and heartbreak. Every challenge you face withdraws from your energy, resilience and a little bit of your faith. Once your positive energy is depleted, pessimism slowly begins to creep in and take hold. Positive thinking … Read more
He asks you for your opinion, but only follows his own advice regardless of what you say. She loves to talk about herself, everything about her is just better than you. When you try to share anything happy about yourself, she seriously doubts it. If you know someone who acts like these examples, there’s a … Read more
Looking to start a business but are unfamiliar with the potential profitability in the industry, and don’t really want to start everything from zero? This simple tool is the perfect one for you to start with — Porter’s Five Forces Model. It is an effective tool to evaluate the existing market. And if sometimes you are … Read more
Elon Musk plans to send tourists around the moon, colonists to Mars and hack our brains. Yes, it sounds totally insane and impossible! Yet, as the co-founder of PayPal and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, he has already achieved the unthinkable – seamless transactions of cash across the internet, creating a reusable rocket and landing … Read more
Many of us may have heard of the importance of positivity but few can really tell why it’s important. Barbara Fredrickson, a university professor in Psychology, discovered how negative emotions affect our minds. In the experiment, participants were asked to tally some objects they listed. Results showed that participants with negative emotions named remarkably fewer … Read more
Life seemed so much simpler when we were kids. Don’t you think? There were much less things to worry about, and more things that could make us truly happy. It was amazing how some simple things used to put a big smile on our face. I still remember how happy I was when I got … Read more
No matter how small (or big) the team you're trying to lead is, there're always challenges that make leadership difficult. Maybe your team is experiencing some setbacks and the morale is kind of low at the moment. Maybe there're members who can't keep up with the progress like everyone else. Or maybe your team always misunderstands … Read more
Have you ever experienced this — your brain couldn’t stop replaying worst-case scenarios as you close your eyes? What if I can’t make a great impression on my first day of work? Let’s see, I will wear this shirt with that pair of pants. Will I overdress? Oh no, I need to wake up earlier … Read more
Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series, Dexter Morgan in Dexter, Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. They are all psychopaths. Psychopaths are usually depicted as serial killers or villains in the entertainment industry. They are antisocial yet powerful, often display threats and put others at peril. How much of this impression is true under the … Read more
Toxic relationships. Sounds pretty bad and serious, isn’t it? We might think those relationships must involve cheating, betrayal or even violent physical actions. Of course, they are obvious signs of unhealthy relationships, but does that mean they are the only indicators? And is it necessary for us to get emotionally and mentally drained before we start … Read more
There are about 8 million sociopaths in the US, according to the American Psychiatric Association.[1] That means about 1 in 25 people you know is a sociopath.[3] You probably know at least one – or at some point in life, you’ll probably get to know one pretty well. M. E. Thomas, a law professor, has … Read more
We all understand what it feels like to be tongue-tied. We’ve all had that experience. Perhaps it was a friend who got too excited about The Game of Thrones—a show that’s got so viral but which you’ve never watched a second of. Or it could be a co-worker who kept talking about his recent trip … Read more
Have you noticed that some of the problems you are experiencing either in interpersonal relationships or work, seem to be recurring? For example, a person who has had some unpleasant arguments with their co-workers in the past, can expect to go through similar struggles moving forward, no matter if they are in a completely different … Read more
Johari Window is a psychological model that helps us to understand more about ourselves and hence to improve ourselves more effectively. “Johari” is a combination of the first names of the two psychologists Joe and Harry. It is also referred to as a “disclosure/feedback model of self awareness”. Originally it was developed for studying group … Read more