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Do you spend a lot of time making decisions? Do you ever wonder if there’s an easier way to make a choice? There are many types of decisions, and the best decision-making strategy in one situation may not be successful in another. We’ll look at the two basic types of decisions and discover why sometimes the best type of decision is the one that takes the least amount of conscious thought.
What is intuitive decision making? What is the adaptive unconscious? How can I use the adaptive unconscious to make the best decisions? Learn why snap judgments and your adaptive unconscious may be the most useful tool in your decision-making toolbox.
What do you do when you want to remember something you see? Do you write it down? Describe it to someone else? Both these tactics can lead to verbal overshadowing…and that’s a problem. Verbal overshadowing is the tendency of language to diminish your memory of visual information. It’s a phenomenon where explaining your thought processes make you worse at whatever you’re trying to explain. Learn why verbal overshadowing is bad and what you can do instead to remember visual information.
Do you ever get overwhelmed when trying to make a decision? Do you find that the more information you have, the harder the decision-making process becomes? How does thin-slicing help you make better decisions in the blink of an eye? In thin-slicing, your brain trusts your gut, and this may be the smartest thing you can do when making tough decisions. Learn how to use the concept of “thin-slicing” to make the smartest decision, big or small.
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.