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How to Find the Ideal Employee: 5 Tips for Recruiters

How do you find an ideal employee to fit the position that you need filled? What traits and talents would your ideal employee have? It’s not easy to find the ideal fit for a job, especially during the hiring process. While you can’t change the way people present themselves, you can clearly define the talents that describe the ideal worker for the position you’re trying to fill. Think about the following tips as you’re creating your ideal employee profile.

The Top 6 Antifragile Book Quotes to Motivate You

Are you looking for Antifragile quotes? How can these quotes help you understand antifragility, and encourage you to build antifragility yourself? Antifragility is all about the idea of growth through struggle. As we go through life, we continuously grow and learn, and can apply our past struggles to our future success. These Antifragile quotes help explain how that works. Keep reading for six motivational Antifragile quotes.

How Does Consciousness Work and What Is It?

Do you want to learn to control your consciousness? How does consciousness work? What are the limits to consciousness? If you want to learn how to control your consciousness, the first step is understanding what consciousness actually is and how it works. In his book Flow, Csikszentmihalyi thoroughly covers these topics. Continue below to learn how consciousness works and what its limitations are.

Brené Brown: Shame Resilience in 5 Steps

Why is shame so detrimental to our self-worth? What are Brené Brown’s five steps to developing shame resilience? Shame is built on foundations of fear, self-hatred, and the sense that you’re not “enough.” Worthiness simply can’t flourish if you think this way. That’s why it’s imperative to develop shame resilience. Continue reading for Brené Brown’s shame resilience guide from The Gifts of Imperfection.

The Paradox Jobs Pose to Flow: Why We Prefer Leisure

What do jobs pose a paradox to flow? How can we enter a flow state doing work that we don’t enjoy? In his book Flow, Csikszentmihalyi performed a study to determine whether we entered the flow state more at work or during leisure time. As it turns out, participants enjoyed their leisure time more even though they entered the flow state more often at work. This is the paradox jobs pose. Continue below to learn more about Csikszentmihalyi’s findings.

String Theory, Explained: Beyond Four Dimensions

What is string theory? What conundrum does string theory attempt to resolve? In physics, string theory states that the fundamental building blocks of the universe are one-dimensional strings as opposed to point-like particles. String theory attempts to solve one of the toughest stumbling blocks of physics—that is the difficulty of uniting the uncertainty principle with the predictions of general relativity. Keep reading to learn about string theory, explained in simple terms.

A Look Into the History of Health Insurance in America

What is the history of the health insurance industry in America? How did the early health insurance policies work? Health insurance as we know it today didn’t really exist until the beginning of the twentieth century. The earliest health insurance policies compensated people for income lost while they were sick. Some employers also paid for doctors to be on retainer to care for employees, since long illness absences were a problem. In this article, we’ll take a look at the history of health insurance in America and how it got to where it is today.

Amazon: Timeline of Events From 2005-2007

In what ways did Amazon grow in the mid-2000s? What big changes came about during these years? The mid-2000s brought about many changes for Amazon. During this time, Amazon entered a war with Zappos, launched Mechanical Turk, relaunched its web services and “fulfillment by Amazon.” It was well on its way to becoming the giant it is today. Below is Amazon’s timeline of events from 2005-2007.

Resilience in Learning: Creating Antifragile Students

What is resilience in learning? Why is it so important to develop resilience and antifragility in learning? Resilience in learning has become one of the focal points of how we look at education. It’s important for students to try and fail, get messy, and maintain their curiosity. That’s how they develop antifragile systems for themselves. Read more about resilience in learning and why it matters.

What Is the Miracle Morning? A Quick Introduction

What is the Miracle Morning? Do you know how it works? More importantly, do you know how it could work for you? The Miracle Morning presents best-selling author and speaker Hal Elrod’s antidote to living the kind of mediocre life that most people accept as normal. Elrod argues that everyone is capable of achieving their dreams in every area of life. The answer is committing yourself to personal development by getting up early and following a simple daily routine of Miracle Morning habits. Read on to discover the answer to the question: what is the Miracle Morning?