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Positive thinking leads to bad result Gabriele Oettingen conducted an experement after which, as a reslut, she claimed that positive thinking may effects us badly in planning future and achieving success. Experiment Students from all over the world who liked people who lived on a great distance from them were asked about what they thought about going with those people from different countries/cities. They also wer…

​​Things we think we are doing right, but not actually People tend to make mistakes and there's nothing wrong about it. Moreover, sometimes we think that we're doing everything perfect, but in reality some things that you find obvious and easy to understand give you wrong glimpse about how certain things should be done. The more effort you make to impress people, the less impressed they are When you're trying to h…

​​Forgetting curve The forgetting curve hypothesizes decrease in memory retention over time. This curve shows how information is getting lost over time, when no attempts were made to save it. Experiment The experiment conducted by Ebbingauz included a method of memorizing meaningless syllables which included two consonants and a vowel between them, not causing any semantic associations, that shows us that people w…

​​ABCDE method It's a method for setting priorities. Determine your major goals or objectives in your task list(I wrote about how to do that in part 1 and part 2). Mark each of your task on your list with one letter - A/B/C/D/E before you begin. A stands for “very important;” something you must do. There can be serious negative consequences if you don’t do it. B stands for “important;” something you should do. Th…

​​How to overcome Learned Helplessness When a person feel that he has no control on situation, he may begin to behave in a helpless manner. It's called learned helplessness. Person with learned helplessness usually has difficulties with setting goals, overcoming difficulties, achieving success and starting the action. Nevertheless learned helplessness can be overcomed. Don't say weak words Don't say these words: I…

​​Friendship paradox Friendship paradox describes statement what says that your friends have more friends than you. Reason It's very simple: the more a person has friends, the bigger chance that he'll be observed in one's own friends. Research Many researches were conducted, and results show that it was true for 98% of Twitter users and more than 90% of Facebook. Example Your friend wants to check how popular …

​​Learned helplessness It's a state in which a person does not try to influence on the situation, even when he can do it. Experiment This phenomenon was discovered by American psychologist Martin Seligman in 1967 in a series of studies. In the experiment Seligman participated three groups of dogs and each of them was placed in different cages. Animals from the first and the second groups received a light discha…

​​Buridan's ass A paradox which describes how external factors influence on our decisions. For example, we'd prefer to buy yogurt with attractive package than the same yogurt with less attractive one. Paradox It refers to the situations where a donkey is given 2 similar piles of hay and put between them. The distances from piles to the donkey are the same and piles are the same size, color and weight. They are jus…

How to generate ideas Here are some tips from Kevin Daum - Inc. 500 entrepreneur and best-selling author. Observe the world Great ideas won't happen in a vacuum. You need to find the way to make your brain think in new and creative directions. You should determine time for special sessions where you stimulate your brain into thinking differently. A simple walk through the city can introduce you to exciting activit…

Use external memory Today we deal with a lot of information, and we can't remember everything. We need to adapt in order to keep track of everything and remember it. Remember, where you can find information It's not essential to remember all information. For example, you don't have to remember everyone's birthday, because you can find it in social networks. You don't have to remember ideas, instead, you can just …

🎉 Happy New Year 🎉 Let this year be more productive and better than the previous one for you. Set goals and achieve them. Develop yourself constantly, be the better version of yourself. Live with pleasure and be happy!