The authors of this study looked closely at the ways beginners versus experts respond to negative or positive feedback.
Excuses are lies we tell ourselves to avoid dealing with unpleasant truths. But as long as we buy into those excuses, we can never move past them.
What an extremely tough thing for teens to figure out: What should you do with your future?
Following this method, you can process your inbox in less than 5 minutes if you’re quick.
Employees who pursue creative activities outside of work may find that these activities boost their performance on the job.
This checklist by Dr María Machón includes typical triggers for procrastination, along with possible solutions for each trigger.
Let’s say you are sitting at your desk, with something to write, and you notice some anxiety… and an urge...
Multitaskers who think they can successfully divide their attention between the program on their television set and the information on their computer screen proved to be driven to distraction by the two devices.
Some lessons that apply equally to getting buff and to building your business
Trying to resist that late-night tweet or checking your work email again?
Let’s say you have an agenda, and every time one of you wandered off the agenda, you forced yourself to get back on it. Would the conversation be better or worse, with a set outcome?
Looking for a good book? Stay away from the award-winning section of the bookstore or library.
The urgent desire for a successful business -- and the fear of losing business -- drives many a good person to do sleazy things.
Often we're discouraged because of some tough challenge or obstacle in our way. But a shift in mindset, courtesy of a Zen proverb, can change everything: The obstacle is the path.
We all know that if you’re truly passionate about something, productivity becomes largely irrelevant.
For centuries, scientists have studied how we go about the difficult task of choosing A or B, left or right, North or South - and how both instinct and intellect figure into the process.
The paradox of happiness is that chasing it may actually make us less happy, a Stanford researcher says.
When someone has a great idea, they hoard that idea. They don’t give it away. They shelter and protect it. They keep it to themselves in fear that someone else might take it. Why would you do that?
Do you have dreams you want to pursue, but never seem to have the time because of the twin demands of work and family?
We all have days when we’re just not very inspired, when we need passion and creativity breathed into us.
Sometimes you need to become unbalanced in order to get things done. If you’re working on a book, launching a business or trying to overhaul some part of your life, you can probably relate.
I couldn't motivate myself to do anything important this morning, which is a rare thing for me. I started to doubt myself, and wonder whether anything I do is worthwhile.
Does your small business maintain a Facebook page? Are you thinking about venturing into social media with a presence on this ever-growing social network?
You know what it's like: No focus, lots of stress, lots of mental exhaustion without really getting anything done.
If you don’t believe you’ll succeed, then some parts of you will resist your goal, and your progress will be frustratingly slow.
I make a living doing what I love, and doing what you love for a living is fantastic.
Researchers had students think up solutions to problems while acting out various metaphors about creative thinking - and found that the instructions actually worked.
You win some, you lose some. Such are life's ups and downs.
How does someone else’s success mean anything bad for you?
While some psychologists still argue that people perform better when they do something because they want to, research suggests we shouldn't even make that distinction.