By comparison, creating obvious visual cues can draw your attention toward a desired habit. In the early 1990s, the cleaning staff at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam installed a small sticker that looked like a fly near the center of each urinal. Apparently, when men stepped...
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Monday, August 26, 2019
The Psychology of Persuasion
Parallel form of human automatic action is aptly demonstrated in an experiment by Harvard social psychologist Ellen Langer. A well known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason.People simply...
Thursday, August 22, 2019
The World's "Greatest Goal Achiever"
"To dare is to do ... to fear is to fail." ~ John Goddard - The man who did it all
John Goddard is the man who lived a life of no regrets, he is most known for his amazing “Life List” of accomplishments. At the age of fifteen John Goddard listed 127 goals he wished to experience...
Friday, August 16, 2019
WILL I BE BROKEN, OR WILL I PREVAIL?
Men are born soft and supple;
dead, they are stiff and hard.
Plants are born tender and pliant;
dead, they are brittle and dry.
Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible
is a disciple of death.
Whoever is soft and yielding
is a disciple of life.
The hard and stiff will be broken.
The...
The Number 1 Golden Rule To Stay Highly Motivated : The Goldilocks Rule
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“The Goldilocks Rule states that humans experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right on the edge of their current abilities. Not too hard. Not too easy. Just right.”
The above figure explains that maximum motivation occurs when facing a challenge of just manageable...