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IQ and intelligence are one thing. But how you apply this power is just as important. There are two types of thinking – convergent thinking, and divergent thinking. Which one is better? Which one leads to more long-term success? Learn more about divergent vs convergent thinking.
What is the relative age effect? Why does when you’re born affect how successful you are later in life? Learn how your birth date affects your later outcomes, because of the relative age effect.
The kind of intelligence measured by IQ tests is called analytic intelligence. But extraordinary success in life is often the result of practical intelligence. Let’s look at what distinguishes the two:
What is the Rebel tendency from Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies like? How do they behave, and what’s the Rebel Personality? Learn more about Rebel here.
Life is full of expectations, ones we have for ourselves and ones other people have for us. How do you respond to expectations? Do you fulfill them, or resist them? When, and why?
Gretchen Rubin has developed The Four Tendencies, a simple yet powerful personality test based on expectations. What are the Four Tendencies? What does it mean to be each tendency? We’ll explain it all here.
Want to figure out which of Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies you are? Take our version of Rubin’s Four Tendencies Quiz here.
This chapter contains our adaptation of the quiz Gretchen Rubin offers in the book and on her website. When answering these questions, choose the answer that is most generally true for you: don’t look for exceptions to the rule or focus on one area of your life.
Is the world really getting worse? Are things really as bad as they seem? The negativity bias makes us think so. But what is the negativity bias? And how do you overcome it? Find the definition of negativity bias, with plenty of examples and statistics, here.
hat is the Upholder tendency from Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies like? How do they behave, and what’s the Upholder Personality? Learn more about Upholders here.
What is Attribution Bias? Why do you tend to attribute actions to people’s fundamental traits, instead of the circumstances or external factors?
Learn more about what attribution bias is, find examples, and learn how to overcome it.
How does emotional health affect your physical health? How do you get emotional well being aligned with treating your disease?
Emotions are deeply connected to sickness and health, how vulnerable a patient is to disease, or how fast a patient recovers–and yet medicine and medical care often lack any trace of emotional intelligence.