Three Ways to Improve Your Memory
Many people, myself including, wish they had a better memory. There are two set of recommendations addressing the issue. One is a number of cool techniques you can use to memorize things better. We will talk about them in one of the next posts here, but in case you want it all and you want […]
Control Thyself
There are many personality traits contributing to success in life: general intelligence, emotional intelligence, ear for music, physical attractiveness, etc. Some matter more, some less, but one matters most: an ability to control yourself. In the 1970s, Walter Mischel and Ebbe B. Ebbesen at Stanford University conducted a set of harsh but extremely important experiments. They […]
12 Best Strategies to Cope with Stress
If your body were an automobile, it would be a top-of-the-line, luxury-class off-road vehicle with all of the latest options. Just one problem: it was designed for the savannas of Africa, not downtown Manhattan or suburbs of Capetown. The stress-response mechanism, also known as the “fight-or-flight syndrome”, gave you great chance to survive before the […]
Keys to Great Family: Talking, Listening, and Learning
As Leo Tolstoy put it, “all happy families are alike”. How exactly they are alike has been tested in an Internet-based study, involving 2,201 people referred by couples’ counselors. Researchers were examining seven key “relationship competencies” that had previously been found important in promoting happiness in relationships. Those seven are: communication conflict resolution, sex or […]
Want to Be Happy? Do Not Rely on Self-Reliance!
Better life means, first of, all happier life, therefore happiness is the most important topic of this blog. Not going into great detail of what happiness is, let us start with the most important prerequisite of happiness: social relationships. All researchers looking into the topics, like this one, for example, found that successful social relationships […]