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•How to Make More People Like You
When you meet new people for the first time, do you usually like most of the new people that you meet?
Or do you find that you usually dislike new people, unless they can eventually prove after a long time that they deserve your friendship?
Perhaps you have never thought about this before. And you may even wonder if it’s really important. Does it really matter very much if you like most people when you first meet them, or if you decide to like them much later, after you get to know them...
•If You Want Other People to Like You Like Yourself First
by: Royane Real
Many of us mistakenly believe that it’s wrong or conceited, to think we have any good qualities. We may spend a lot of time berating ourselves for our negative qualities, thinking that self criticism is the key to improving our performance. However, a constant focus on our supposed shortcomings can hinder our efforts to make friends with other people.
How can we have the confidence to make new friends if we think we don’t have much to offer? How can we believe that...
•What Does a High IQ Really Mean
You have probably heard the term IQ many times, and you probably know it has something to do with measuring intelligence.
The letters IQ stand for intelligence quotient, and an IQ test is widely used as a way to measure intelligence.
The test most frequently used today to measure intelligence is called the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test.
The earliest version of it was developed in France in 1905. The original test has been revised several times over the years, with a major revision...
•How to Create Confidence in Your Learning Ability
If you are a student who is studying and facing exams, you already know that you will benefit from learning better studying techniques and better note-taking methods. What you may not know is that an important part of being a good learner is to feel very confident about your learning ability.
Why is it important to have good confidence in our ability to learn?
When you don’t have a good confidence in your learning ability, you will approach learning situations and exams in a state of...
•Are You Being Lied To
Sometimes we suspect that someone is lying to us about a very important matter. It could be a matter of where they spent a couple of hours, or they might be trying to cover up who they were with.
How can we tell if someone is lying to us?
Recently I read a book that gives a lot of tips on how to deal with a situation where we suspect that someone might be trying to lie to us or bluff us.
This book is �Get Anyone to do Anything� by David J. Lieberman.
This book is filled with...
•How to Mix Negativity and Creativity Together
Do you know any people who are always negative whenever new creative ideas are proposed? These are the people who are always saying, “That will never work,” or “That’s a bad idea”. You may even be such a person yourself, always looking for and finding the flaws in any plan.
Is being negative about new creative ideas always bad?
It depends.
An ability to be critical of new ideas can be a force for evil, but it can also be a force for good. People who like to pick apart and criticize...
•How to Improve Your Creative Thinking
Would you like to become more creative in your thinking?
Before you answer yes or no, think about what that word creativity means to you.
If you associate creativity with artistic expression, and you happen to be a middle-manager in a corporation, you may think increased creativity is not really necessary to your life. But creativity is something far, far broader than artistic expression.
Your idea of a creative person might be someone who painting beautiful pictures all day long.
Or...
•How to Keep Your Brain Healthy as You Age
No matter what our current age, we all want to have a healthy body and a healthy mind as we get older. There is not much pleasure in living a long life if our final years are spent in pain and if we lose our ability to think and remember.
As much as we dread suffering physical pain and illness in old age, many of us fear even more the prospect of losing our mental capacities.
We know that some people are able to live into their eighth and ninth decades still mentally sharp and physically...
•Help For Overcoming Shyness
Do you need help in overcoming shyness? If you suffer from shyness, you probably often wish that your shyness would instantly go away, never to return. For some people, being shy can be a small problem. For others, shyness can be life crippling.
Some people suffer from extreme shyness that is very intense. Extreme shyness can result in a life of lost opportunities in love, friendship, dating and career opportunities.
People who are extremely shy can feel absolutely overwhelmed with...
•Should You Cut Back on Your Caffeine
Many sober, law abiding people who would never dream of knowingly ingesting a mind- altering drug, actually consume one every day—caffeine!
Caffeine is so pervasive in our culture and in many other cultures that we often forget it is literally a drug that affects our brain. Caffeine is present in coffee, tea, many cola drinks and over the counter medications.
The real question is—is caffeine a bad drug, or is it okay? Is caffeine even better than okay, does it do good things for us?
The...
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