Understanding This One Principle Will Make You a Happier Person.

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Source:https://medium.com/ By:Srinivas Rao Photo by Robert Collins on Unsplash Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule, and learn to distinguish between what you can and can’t control, that inner tranquility and […]

How Our Use of Social Media Fuels Envy, Comparison, Anxiety, and Depression.

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Source: https://medium.com/ By: Srinivas Rao Photo by David Calderón on Unsplash Through social media we have a continual window into the lives of friends, pseudo-friends, and celebrities. And what we see is not some unvarnished peek into their world but a highly idealized image that they present. We see only the most exciting images from their vacations, the […]

Twelve Life Lessons

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A dozen things I learned over the past year. Source:https://medium.com/ By:Nina Gheihman Photo:Sunset over Jaipur, India. January 2018. © Nina Gheihman Exactly a year ago, I left my comfortable existence in Cambridge, Massachusetts to embark on a year-long travel adventure for my dissertation research. My first stop was Paris, then Tel Aviv, and finally Los […]

I Finally Understand This Whole Gratitude Thing

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https://psiloveyou.xyz/ By : Talia Cirangle And I think we all deserve to feel #blessed “Be grateful for what you have.” Such a simple concept. Yet I’ve always understood it at such an abstract level. Until now. In the past six months, I’ve moved, started a new job and overall have changed my lifestyle quite a […]

What made Tesla a genius? Lessons learned from Nikola Tesla

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Source:https://medium.com/ By:Catalin Matei I have about 400 books on my waiting list. If you’re in a similar situation, you understand how hard it is to actually decide what to read next when the opportunity cost is so high, because there are other very good options. Nevertheless, a couple of days ago I decided to read […]

5 Easy Ways to Begin Improving Your Life.

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Source:https://medium.com/ By:Adam Bergen Photo:Monday Views Instagram The personal development field is an interesting one. There’s no shortage of information and sources on how to improve yourself, from the tried-and-true books (from well-known authors) to places like Quora, where anyone can become an expert and push their opinion. Now I don’t consider myself an expert; far […]

The Reasons Why Relationships Fail

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https://medium.com/ Photo by Lucas Quintana on Unsplash In short: because we have absolutely no idea what we’re doing. We are not good at relationships We’re just not. Anybody who swears otherwise is probably even worse than average(and I’d be willing to bet these are the same people who “go above and beyond” and “give until it hurts” but, […]

How To Know If You’ll Live Your Dreams

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Source: https://medium.com/ By:Benjamin Hardy, PhD “To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation.” — The Alchemist The Alchemist is among the top 25 most selling books of all time. If you haven’t read it yet, do so immediately. In the book, a young boy meets an African King who teaches the boy how to live out his […]

You Know What You Need To Do. You’re Just Scared.

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Source:https://theascent.pub/ By:Deb Knobelman, PhD Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash Or, lessons learned from slogging through a PhD. I have a lifelong love affair with math and science. Given my family, my parents took for granted that I would excel in those areas. And excel I did. At the end of college, I had no practical ideas about what […]

How To Get Back On Track When One Thing Derails Your Day.

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Source:https://medium.com/ By:Deb Knobelman, PhD Photo by Austin Smart on Unsplash Managing frustration and overwhelm when the unexpected happens. The bus that drives my 8 year old to school didn’t show up the other morning. Crap. By the time we realized it wasn’t coming, I was in full panic mode. I knew it meant that at least one of […]