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Do you ever demonize people around you? Attaching bad attributes to people because they are behaving in a way that you don’t like? Let me show you examples that may help you remember:
Your roommate who isn’t washing the dishes or leaves his stuff lying …
Today was my last day at KNIME.
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Following a recommendation on twitter, I’ve been listening to “Willpower Instinct” by Kelly McGonigal Ph.D. on audible.
It educates the listener/reader about how willpower works and while I already knew about the muscle analogy, what was most fascinating to me are the unconscious behaviour …
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I recently listened to this podcast/interview by Tom Bilyeu with Moran Cerf [1]. Tom’s entire channel is amazing, do please check it out if you have the time!
Moran talks about putting EEG caps on people’s head to detect which person they were when …
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In the previous post I wrote about how you behave differently around people “above your level”, i.e. the people you look up to.
One of the things that helps me get them “on my level” from my perspective is realizing that most of these people had …
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You know how you sometimes meet people who are just “on the same level” as you are? Today I had a super interesting conversation with a collegue of mine and it turned out she has pretty much the same mindset as I have. [1] Additionally she brought …
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I struggle with leaving my comfort zone. That’s that comfy feeling of being safe and doing what you already know how to do, it’s easy, effortless and… mostly riskless. And that is normal! You can call it “human” or “instinctual” or your “lizard brain”, “lower …
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One of the more fascinating skills that I started to acquire is “Speedreading”.
As the name suggests, this is about reading fast, but also about getting the information to stick better! I originally got in touch with this still surprisingly exotic topic because a friend of …