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The Power of Vulnerability Discussion Questions

Do you want to further your understanding of Brené Brown lecture? How can these The Power of Vulnerability discussion questions help you relate her messages to your own life? The Power of Vulnerability was a TED Talk given by Brené Brown about shame, vulnerability, and wholehearted living. Brown explains that, in today’s culture, it’s hard to ever feel like you’re “good enough,” so she shared practices on how to stop feeling shame and comparing yourself to others. Continue reading for exercises and discussion questions inspired by Brené Brown’s lecture.

How Visualizing Your Goals Can Turn Against You

Do you believe that visualizing your dreams can help you make them a reality? What if it has the opposite effect? You might have heard self-help gurus talk about the power of visualizing your goals. While visualizing the desired final outcome of your efforts could be helpful in keeping your goals top of mind, too much visualization can actually have the opposite effect. Here is why goal visualization can sometimes be a double-edged sword.

How Having Faith in Yourself Leads to Success

Self-Trust: How to Build and Maintain It

Why is it important to have faith in yourself? How do you develop unwavering faith in your goals? When you have faith in yourself, your imagination will prompt ideas that propel you towards achieving your goals. Affirmation and visualization will help you believe in your goals. Tell yourself constantly that you will succeed, and always envision yourself succeeding. Read on to understand why it is so important to have faith in yourself.

The 5 Best Tony Robbins NLP Techniques

What are the best Tony Robbins NLP techniques? How can you use these techniques to change your mindset and life for the better? Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is when you change your thoughts and behavior to improve your life. According to Tony Robbins, NLP techniques can be used to change your mindset, your response to difficult situations, and how you view yourself. Read on to find the five best Tony Robbins NLP techniques.

Love Your Job: The 4 Rules That Might Surprise You

Do you love your job? Have you been looking for this love in all the wrong places? Cal Newport offers four rules for loving your job that he learned through his own experience and research. He found that, contrary to popular opinion, the key isn’t in following your passion. Rather, the key lies in developing skills that you can cash in for the job you want. Keep reading to learn how to love your job.

How to Be Your Authentic Self: Brené Brown’s Practices

Do you want to know how to be your authentic self? Are you being held back by other people’s expectations, your own perfectionism, or your distrust of your intuition? Brené Brown’s first five practices for wholehearted living focus on how to be your authentic self. She discusses the importance of saying “no,” the dangers of perfectionism, the fear that some people feel when things are going too well, and more. Continue reading for Brené Brown’s first five practices for wholehearted living.

How to Interpret Feedback: Drop Your Ego

Are you sensitive to feedback? What do you think is behind your reaction? According to communication experts Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen, how we think about and interpret feedback has a lot to do with the stories we tell ourselves. If the feedback challenges their story, people tend to become defensive or reject the insight. In this article, we’ll discuss why some people find it difficult to receive feedback, and how to interpret feedback more objectively.

Ryan Holiday: How to Let Go of Ego

The 25 Cognitive Biases: The Kruger Effect

What exactly is an ego? How does having an inflated ego distort your perception of yourself and others? According to Ryan Holiday, the author of Ego Is the Enemy, ego is an unhealthy belief in one’s own importance that distorts our perception of the world so that we see ourselves as central figures and see everyone else as either subservient or oppositional. Further, he argues that seeing the world this way causes a host of adverse consequences such as difficulty accomplishing things (because ego causes us to overestimate our abilities) and connecting with people. In this article, we’ll discuss Holiday’s advice

Tony Robbins: Emotions (and How to Master Them)

How can you master your emotions the Tony Robbins way? What are some healthy ways to process emotions? In Awaken the Giant Within, Tony Robbins offers some techniques for processing your emotions and mastering them. Learning how to interpret, understand, and control your emotions can help you to improve your relationships, mindset, and responses to difficult situations. Keep reading for Tony Robbins’ emotions advice.

Brené Brown: The Importance of Creativity, Play, & Rest

Why are creativity, play, and rest important to wholehearted living? Why should you stop using exhaustion as a status symbol? What are some of Brené Brown’s methods to release stress? According to Brené Brown, creativity, play, and rest are wholehearted behaviors that will promote a healthy mind and body. Society has led people to believe that these behaviors are childish and after a certain age, these abilities are scoffed at or degraded. Keep reading to learn why adults should re-embrace their creative sides.