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...
Sunday, July 21, 2019
That's one small step for a man
-Neil Armstrong ,Apollo 11 astronaut - the first person to walk on the Moon.
July 20, 2019, was the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing when American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person ever to plant boots on the dusty lunar surface.
Buzz...
Saturday, July 6, 2019
Addition by Subtraction
"Addition by Subtraction" is a phrase used by coaches to mean that sometimes your team can get better not by adding more talent, but by shedding some people or practices that are interfering with or inhibiting your success.
In his book “Atomic Habits” author James Clear mentioned about...
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Strategy of the aggregation of marginal gains …
Since 1908, British riders had won just a single gold medal at the Olympic Games, and they had fared even worse in cycling’s biggest race, the Tour de France. In 110 years, no British cyclist had ever won the event. In fact, the performance of British riders had been so underwhelming that one...