Tips and tools for professional development include making your aptitudes and accomplishments more visible.
How does someone else’s success mean anything bad for you?
Scientists have identified for the first time a particular gene's link to optimism, self-esteem and "mastery," the belief that one has control over one's own life — three critical psychological resources for coping well with stress and depression.
Unconscious motivation plays a substantial role in how we respond to challenges. Find out how much.
A researcher has found that the specific colors used in a company’s logo have a significant impact on how that logo, and the brand as a whole, is viewed by consumers.
It’s amazing how one simple, easy, positive action can change so much in a person’s life. One of the things that has had the biggest effect on my life is the realization of the power of gratitude. Simply giving thanks.
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Do peoples’ personalities change after 30?
Contributors get noticed and attract new friends and opportunities easily, and contributing is much easier than you might assume
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Happily ever after isn't a given.
Happy individuals are predisposed to seek out and undertake new goals in life and this reinforces positive emotions, say researchers who examined the connections between desirable characteristics, life successes and well-being of over 275,000 people.
You might think that a loving partner helps keep you on track -- say, when you want to stick to your jogging or concentrate on your studies.
These need-to-know basics should help you consider whether a joint venture is right for you and your business.
Studies reveal that in the dog-eat-dog, look-out-for-Number 1, highly-competitive business world, only the aggressive, risk-taking alpha male can expect to succeed as an entrepreneur.
We all know that getting a good night's sleep is good for our general health and well-being. But new research is highlighting a more surprising benefit of good sleep: more feelings of gratitude for relationships.
Some lessons that apply equally to getting buff and to building your business
Do you have difficulty saying “no”? Are you always trying to be nice to others at the expense of yourself?
Research suggests that overall happiness in life is more related to how much you are respected and admired by those around you, not to the status that comes from how much money you have stashed in your bank account.
Many people aren't aware that when they begin to make a name for themselves, they are creating a brand… and what’s more, that brand becomes hard to change once it’s become established in people’s minds.
Lying about performance on one task may increase creativity on a subsequent task by making people feel less bound by conventional rules, according to research.
It turns out passion is not as elusive as we think.
If you think having loads of money, fetching looks, or the admiration of many will improve your life -- think again.
If you want to be an effective entrepreneur, you should have at least 10 good friends who are already successful entrepreneurs. Few entrepreneurs succeed in isolation, because, business is a social game.
Here is list of 27 traits that distinguish successful people from ordinary people. If you take the commitment to apply every day each principle in your life, you’ll start to see amazing results in no time.
Whether bloggers are writing to change the world, or just discussing a bad break-up, they may get an extra boost of motivation from traffic-measuring and interactive tools that help them feel more connected to and more influential in their communities.
The people around you dictate your success. They can also forecast our failure.
The trope that the likelihood of an accurate group decision increases with the abundance of brains involved might not hold up when a collective faces a variety of factors -- as often happens in life and nature.
How do ideas spread? What messages will go viral on social media, and can this be predicted?
Members of a group or team will work harder when they're competing against a group with lower status than when pitted against a more highly ranked group.