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Month: April 2017

Give Successfully: Reviewing Adam Grant’s Give and Take

Give Successfully: Reviewing Adam Grant’s Give and Take

  We have all experienced the pain of being treated unfairly. It could be that we’ve been overlooked in favor of someone less deserving in a romantic context. Maybe at work, we slaved hard on a project but someone who did almost nothing ends up receiving most of the credit. In either case, we may feel that our decision to not act selfishly costed us dearly. Incidents like these raise the question in every giving person’s mind: how can I…

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Sleep Better Tonight

Sleep Better Tonight

  Good sleep is vital for good health. Not getting enough quality sleep is linked with mood disorders, weight problems, cognitive decline, and overall worse health. Because of that, I have dedicated some time to find helpful tips for sleeping well and am listing them here. Note that much of this advice won’t help if you suffer from insomnia. Neither are they are substitutes for a consultation with a sleep doctor or medication if your situation is not related to insomnia…

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Advising Our Younger Selves

Advising Our Younger Selves

What advice would we give our younger selves? This is a fascinating question. It is not surprising, therefore, that when this question is asked on Quora, it gets a lot of replies. In this post, I list some helpful replies and elaborate on them a little more.   I would not say a word – Niklas Goke Reflecting on Bill Gates’ response, this contributor reasons that because so many factors direct our life trajectory, one word could send what would otherwise have…

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