Erin Meyer: What Is Affective Trust?

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What is affective trust? How do people from personal cultures approach professional relationships? Affective trust is trust that develops based on how you feel about the other person. Affective trust is the trust that people of all cultures feel towards their family and friends. But in personal cultures, it’s also the cornerstone of professional relationships. In this article, we’ll look at how members of personal cultures build trust and present some tips you can use to build trust in a personal culture.

How to Gain Peace of Mind and Inner Calm

How to Gain Peace of Mind and Inner Calm

Is your mind filled with racing thoughts and incessant worry? What can you do to slow down your mind and bring it to a calmer, more stable state? Living with strain and anxiety is difficult while living in a state of harmony makes for an easy, calm existence. There are several methods by which you can learn how to gain peace of mind, serenity, and calm attitudes. Try these strategies for quieting your mind and attaining inner peace.

Doubt Avoidance Tendency: Explained With Examples

The 25 Cognitive Biases: Doubt Avoidance Tendency

What is the doubt avoidance tendency? How can you control your fight or flight response? The doubt avoidance tendency is the inclination to make quick, poorly thought-out decisions during stressful situations. The pressure to remove doubt causes you to make ill-informed choices. You can control this tendency by scheduling deliberate delays when under pressure to carefully strategize before reaching a final decision. Read on to learn more about the doubt avoidance tendency.

Overcoming Your Limitations: Unchain Your Mind

Overcoming Your Limitations: Unchain Your Mind

What’s one thing you want to do but are too afraid to take action on because you believe you’ll fail? Why do you believe that this endeavor is doomed to fail? People see their limitations as proof of their inability to succeed. But when you believe you can’t improve, it prevents you from even trying. Therefore, the first step to overcoming your limitations is to get yourself to believe that you can. In this article, we’ll explore three methods you can use to overcome your (often self-imposed) limitations.

How Does the Subconscious Mind Work?

How Does the Subconscious Mind Work?

How does the subconscious mind work? What information does it store and how does it interact with the conscious mind? Your subconscious mind is your passive mind. It’s always awake because it regulates all of your bodily functions, and it records and stores your every experience even when you’re not consciously paying attention. Over 90% of your brain’s activity takes place in your subconscious mind: It’s a reservoir of thoughts, feelings, and memories that lies beneath your conscious awareness. In this article, we’ll explore how the subconscious mind works, according to Joseph Murphy.

Angela Duckworth: Grit—Book Review

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Is Angela Duckworth’s Grit worth all the hype? Is having grit really more important than intelligence or natural talent? Angela Duckworth’s book Grit was published in 2016 and became an instant bestseller—remaining on the New York Times bestseller list for years. Although there have been many criticisms of the book, many swear that Duckworth’s research is revolutionary. Continue reading for our Grit book review including the book’s context, impact, and critical reception.

Success Programming: Condition Yourself for Success

Obsession with Success: The Key to Becoming Wealthy

Does your mind often sabotage you, preventing you from acting in alignment with your goals? Is there a way to program your mind to act in a more goal-oriented way? According to Maxwell Maltz, the author of Psycho-Cybernetics, the main reason people sabotage their own goals is that their internal programming (how they have been programmed to think throughout their lives) is in contradiction with their conscious goals. But even if you have been thinking and acting in a self-sabotaging way for your whole life, it doesn’t mean that you have to keep doing it: you can program it for

50 Types of Mental Models for Better Decision-Making

50 Types of Mental Models for Better Decision Making

What are the major types of mental models? What should be your focus when learning a mental model? The many types of mental models cut across several disciplines including math, psychology, economics, physics, and more. They include models like Gaussian distribution, reciprocity, autocatalysis, and opportunity cost. Your focus should be on learning the fundamental meaning of these models and not their nitty-gritty details. Read on to discover more about the major types of mental models.

How to Overcome the Halo Effect Bias

The 25 Cognitive Biases: Halo Effect Bias

What is the halo effect bias? How do you correct the halo bias? The halo effect bias is the tendency to let your dislike of someone or another group blind you to the virtues and strengths of the other party. This can lead to bad decisions or dangerous underestimation of a hated enemy. You can correct the bias by inverting your feelings to see what you can find to like about the object of your hatred. Read on to learn more about the halo effect bias.