I am, if nothing else, predictable. I often spend the hour or so before bed coming up with all kinds of great ideas that I will definitely, absolutely implement as soon as I get up the next morning. I write them down and make sure to put the note in a place I will see [...]
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Most psychology studies aren’t that much use to us in our daily lives because most psychologists aren’t that interested in giving us practical advice on how to improve ourselves. In these two studies, however, the researchers stumbled across a way to drastically improve our daily lives. They figured out how to make people get [...]
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Smelly Dreams
My last post, The State of Consciousness You’re Missing Out On, was all about sleep, dreams, and the fact that consciousness never really quits. In the comments, Rod brought up an interesting point, that even in our dreams, [...]
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To see someone with the proper mindset for achieving dreams is a truly inspiring thing. You probably know someone with this mindset, or are even an avid follower of one. They’re the people who achieve goals with ease and seem to control life, rather than letting life control them.
According to psychologist Carol Dweck, these [...]
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Lately, I’ve been reading a lot on myths and stories and the power that narratives can have on how we view ourselves and thus how we live our lives. Myths and stories are a huge part of most of the world’s cultures. Native Americans, for example, still hold on to many of the myths [...]
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The idea behind this post is quite similar to the idea behind another post I recently wrote, Boost Your Personal Growth by Learning a New Language.
The basic idea is that who we are thinking about when we are doing something actually has a big impact on how we do that something.
For example, the researchers [...]
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Through the grapevine I heard about this wonderful book (I haven’t read it yet, but it sounds very good) that came out recently on aging well, which showed that living the kind of happy, fulfilled life that I talk about here at Improved Lives will, in combination with a few other things, predict health [...]
Have you subscribed yet?I’ve just started reading Toward a Psychology of Being by Abraham Maslow and I think that Maslow brings up an excellent point about mindsets. The context of this quote is that Maslow is talking about the differences between European psychologists and American psychologists. He says that:
The Europeans are stressing the self-making of the self, in [...]
