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Things Successful People (Who Are Actually Happy) Do Differently
Achievement rarely produces the sense of lasting happiness that you think it will. Once you finally accomplish the goal you’ve been chasing, two new...
Smartphones Are Driving Everyone Insane (Communication)
There's nothing worse than whipping out your smartphone during a meeting, and few things will turn someone off to you quite like a mid-conversation...
Powerful Ways To Create Your Own Happiness
Happiness comes in so many different forms that it can be hard to grasp. Unhappiness, on the other hand, is easy to identify; you...
Unmistakable Habits of Utterly Authentic People (Self-Awareness)
Oscar Wilde said, “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” Wilde made it sound so simple, but living with authenticity is a real challenge.
To...
How To Survive A Difficult Boss (Works Well With Others)
Difficult bosses contaminate the workplace. Some do so obliviously, while others smugly manipulate their employees. The “bad boss” has become a comedic part of...
Paradoxical Habits of Wildly Successful People (Self-Awareness)
You know what they say about opinions—everybody has one. If you want to see that truth in action, just Google “characteristics of successful people.”...
The conversational power of HPM.
History, philosophy, metaphor (HPM). Memorize it!
Sometimes our minds just blank at the worst times in a conversation. Don’t you hate that?
But if you just...
What does a 2:1 ratio have to do with great conversations?
Look, conversation is simple.
Okay not really, but when you break conversation down, it’s actually a very small set of patterns.
Here is almost every conversation...
Find a conversation’s emotional flow to become a mind reader.
People choose topics to talk about because they either feel a certain way about them, or the topic has made them feel a certain...