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Is it possible to accurately predict the success or failure of a marriage in just 3 minutes? Does each couple have a relationship DNA that can reveal the fate of their marriage to anyone who knows what to look for? Does Gottman’s love lab results tell you how best to make your relationship fluorish? John Gottman thinks so. Read on to learn about Gottman’s “love lab” and what your facial expressions say about your marriage.
What is Eckhart Tolle’s pain-body? Why does it cause so much trouble in your life? Why does your past cause you so much emotional pain today, no matter how hard you think about it? According to The Power of Now and Eckhart Tolle, the emotional pain body is the invisible entity of pain that accumulates through your life. This starts with painful experiences from childhood, and every experience that brings you emotional pain is added to the collection. As an accumulation of emotions, the pain body is ultimately a product of the ego that prevents you from being present and
Eckhart Tolle has a lot of teachings, and he spends most of his teachings on the ego and the problems it can cause. What is the ego, and why is it the source of many bad emotions and problems in your life? According to Tolle, your ego is the voice inside your head. It can be characterized as the devil or angel on your shoulder. It is the voice that analyzes what’s going on around you, comments on your interactions, dwells on the past, speculates about the future, complains, likes or dislikes things, and makes you question yourself in moments
What is psychological time? How does it differ from clock time? Learn about how psychological time distracts you from being present and how to get out of psychological time so that you can discover your true self.
Why are Asians so good at math? While it seems like a stereotype, the results are true – Asian countries consistently place high in academic math tests. The answer to why is surprising, stemming from practices centuries ago.
Learn more about why Asians are good at math here.
What is Mitigated Speech? Why do people have trouble saying something they don’t mean? And how does mitigated speech cause plane crashes?
Learn the unfortunate truths of mitigated speech and how to overcome it, in this summary excerpt from Outliers.
What is a culture of honor? Why do people in a culture of honor tend to be more violent and respond to insults more aggressively? Learn how the culture of honor began with farming practices in the past, and why it continues centuries later today.
Christopher Langan is the smartest man alive, with an IQ of 195 (for comparison, Einstein’s was 150). But he has spent most of his life as a bouncer in a bar.
Robert Oppenheimer was also a genius. The theoretical physicist and father of the atomic bomb was one of the most important figures of the 20th century.
Why are the career trajectories of these two geniuses so dramatically different?
What is a cultural legacy, in Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers? Why does our culture from centuries ago leave a legacy that continues to affect us today? Learn the foundations of cultural legacy here.
In the early 20th century, Lewis Terman studied a group of child geniuses (his ‘Termites’) and followed them into adulthood. He expected them to be incredibly high achievers – Nobel laureates, CEOs, and heads of state. But what really happened?
Learn the truth about Lewis Terman’s termites here.