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Posts Tagged ‘Success’

How We Find Motivation in Other People’s Struggles

Success rarely comes without roadblocks, hardship, and failure. If you’ve ever read anyone’s success story, then you have undoubtedly found out that their victories weren’t absent from previous failures and struggles. In many ways, those past failures are what make successful people who they are today.

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How to Change Habits with 20 Minutes of Visualization

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle What is a habit? A habit is any behavior that we do on a frequent and consistent basis. The only way to build new habits is through conscious repetition and practice. As we repeat behaviors more and more, they [...]

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How Your Brain Reacts to Mistakes Depends on Your Mindset

One of the most powerful shifts in your mindset is thinking of mistakes as learning opportunities. Recently a study published in Psychological Science tried to investigate how this attitude affects our brains. Researchers first hooked up participants to an EEG in order to record electrical activity in the brain. They then had participants perform a [...]

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How To Make Girls Chase: An Interview with Chase Amante

This is an interview with Chase Amante, a teacher of the social arts and author of How To Make Girls Chase. Chase has been practicing and teaching how to pick-up women for over half a decade now. After working 3 years in San Diego, California, he now practices his studies abroad. Currently stationed in Beijing, [...]

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How To Be a Better Opportunist

Opportunity is just as much dependent on external circumstances as it is on our views and attitude about the world. When we actively change our thinking and perception toward a more opportunistic mindset, we can actually invite more opportunities into our lives. Many people are perfectly capable of discovering opportunities that greatly benefit their lives, [...]

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