The people around you dictate your success. They can also forecast our failure.
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.
Our attention is often pulled in too many directions, leaving us feeling overloaded, distracted, chaotic, spread thinly, without focus. So what can you do?
It is a beautiful thing to create, to produce, to go out there in the world and make a contribution. But it is just as important that we teach others to create and produce, that we encourage them...
A common mistake people make is that they’ll spend 500 hours creating a product and then 20 hours promoting it. Then they wonder why no one is buying.
A big part of self-discipline comes from social pressure. This is how people in the military can become very disciplined, particularly in special forces. They don’t want to hold their team back, so they have to do their best.
If you don’t know how, learn how. Use that fancy brain that learned how to walk, talk, and read. It’s still capable of further learning, is it not? Of course it is!
How do ideas spread? What messages will go viral on social media, and can this be predicted?
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.
Study by USC Marshall School of Business and USC faculty illuminates how facial expressions affect cooperation While Disney’s Frozen Academy...
For decades, it has been observed that similar people experience divergent success trajectories, with some repeatedly succeeding and others repeatedly failing.
Trying to resist that late-night tweet or checking your work email again?
Looking for a good book? Stay away from the award-winning section of the bookstore or library.
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.
The paradox of happiness is that chasing it may actually make us less happy, a Stanford researcher says.
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.
It's often said that women can have it all - motherhood and a career. But a study suggests that women who rule the household have less energy for or interest in being a rising star in the workplace.
Contributors get noticed and attract new friends and opportunities easily, and contributing is much easier than you might assume
Can money make us happy if we spend it on the right purchases?
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.
When people feel they’ve hit a roadblock in reaching a personal goal, such as losing weight, a change in perspective...
It's not just in movies where nerds get their revenge.
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.
We all know marketing is key to small business survival and success, but it can be overwhelming to know what to do to be an effective marketer.
Most self-help books on the subject offer tips on how to maximize one’s bliss, but one study suggests that moderate happiness may be preferable to full-fledged elation.
Students, athletes and performing artists are often advised to imagine themselves performing successfully. But is that motivation influenced by what perspective they take when imagining their performance?
Styles change and fashions evolve. But why do some things become more popular than others?
A study finds that men are more likely to share their creative work online than women, despite the fact that women and men engage in creative activities at essentially equal rates.
Psychological scientists have found that the size of different parts of people's brains correspond to their personalities; for example, conscientious people tend to have a bigger lateral prefrontal cortex, a region of the brain involved in planning and controlling behavior.