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you realise their importance, and recognise it sincerely.
Dale Carnegie • How to Win Friends and Influence People
even deeper level of the self-awareness onion. And that one is full of fucking tears. The third level is our personal values: Why do I consider this to be success/failure? How am I choosing to measure myself? By what standard am I judging myself and everyone around me? This level, which takes constant questioning and effort, is incredibly difficult
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.psychology this third layer of awareness is about our values. What i consider to be important . What the values that i have built processes for.very interesting proposition that values determine the nature of our problems and nature of our problems determine the quality of our life. How does nature ofour problem determine the quality of our life? Maybe dealing with emotions in a better way for value based problems helps improve mental wellbeing and consequently quality of life
you can’t tap into the benefits when they are working for you (as can happen if you activate positively associated stereotypes).
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
A third sample of visitors was greeted warmly and given a small cup of yogurt. Even though the retail value of the yogurt equaled that of the key ring, it increased food purchased much more, to 24 percent. Why? Because visitors entered with a need for food, and matching the gift to the need made the difference.
Robert B. Cialdini • Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Clothes and props are also powerful authority symbols. In Milgram’s experiment, it was the authority figure’s white lab coat and clipboard that convinced participants they should obey them and “torture” their fellow test subjects. And con artists exploit the power of these symbols to their full extent by donning uniforms, suits and even priest’s
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conducting research, he prioritizes curiosity over canonical paths , often taking unconventional routes through the work. Though this approach can lead to roundabout explorations, he believes starting where genuine interest lies ultimately reveals the most critical insights
every.to • Sailing Against the Current of Frictionless AI
If you want to feel your positive memories more intensely, you can simply move them closer to you in your mind’s eye. If you want difficult memories to have less intensity, you can just move them farther away from you.
Charles Faulkner • NLP
Making your own schedule works well for two reasons. The first is sleep. The freedom to control your schedule gives you the best chance of getting a good night’s rest. The research shows that we all need seven to eight hours of shut-eye a night.9 We’ll explore this in further detail later, but here, know that without proper sleep we experience a
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From tribes in Africa to college fraternities in the United States, when a new member is being inducted into a group, initiation rituals commonly involve pain and degradation, sometimes even death. And efforts to curb the brutal practices always meet with dogged resistance. But why is that?
Quite simply, the groups engaging in these rituals know
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