What Is Abusive Behavior? How to Recognize the Signs

What Is Abusive Behavior? How to Recognize the Signs

What is abusive behavior? How do abusers subtly manipulate and intimidate their victims? Abuse isn’t just physical—it can also be emotional and verbal abuse that many victims might not recognize at first. But Lundy Bancroft’s book Why Does He Do That? will teach you how to spot abusive behavior from a mile away. Bancroft breaks up abusive behavior into two categories, which we’ll look at below.

What Makes a Good Role Model? Luke Burgis Explains

What Makes a Good Role Model? Luke Burgis Explains

What makes a good role model? What should a role model be able to accomplish? What characteristics should they have? Author and educator Luke Burgis wrote his first book, Wanting, to explain why we imitate others and pursue false desires in society. In the book, he explains what makes a good role model, how to identify and choose role models in your life, and how to avoid bad role models. Read on to find out what makes a good role model, according to Burgis’s advice.

Amy C. Edmondson: Psychological Safety’s Importance

Amy C. Edmondson: Psychological Safety’s Importance

What is Amy C. Edmondson’s definition of psychological safety? What are the benefits of psychological safety? According to Amy C. Edmondson, psychological safety in the workplace means workers feel encouraged to speak up and make mistakes without fear of reprisal. Her book The Fearless Organization explains how a psychologically safe work culture is superior to a fear-driven one. Let’s look at what psychological safety is at work.

What Can You Do With ChatGPT? (+What Not to Do)

What Can You Do With ChatGPT? (+What Not to Do)

What can you do with ChatGPT? What are the best ways to use it? What are ChatGPT’s limitations? ChatGPT, a new language generation tool, was an instant hit upon its release in November last year. While the bot is uncannily good at holding conversations, producing written texts, and coding, it also generates many outputs that are biased or factually incorrect.  Keep reading to find out what you can do with ChatGPT, plus its limitations.

How to Organize Your Home & Free Up Mental Energy

How to Organize Your Home & Free Up Mental Energy

How does your brain keep track of your stuff? How can you work with your biology to better organize your things? In his book The Organized Mind, neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin discusses how to externalize and sort information to make various mental processes easier. Similarly, he suggests that you use the power of externalization and sorting to track your stuff. Keep reading to learn how to organize your home in a way that frees up more mental energy, allowing you to focus on other tasks and make better decisions.

Ryan Holiday: The Power of a Quiet Mind

Ryan Holiday: The Power of a Quiet Mind

How do you still an agitated mind? What exactly is meant by quieting your mind? When your mind is quiet, you can process information faster, reason more rationally, and solve problems more effectively. In his book Stillness Is the Key, Ryan Holiday likens this state—which he calls “stillness” to the state of satori in Buddhism. Keep reading to learn about the power of a quiet mind, according to Ryan Holiday.

How to Cope With Negative Inner Dialogue

How to Cope With Negative Inner Dialogue

Is your inner dialogue too loud and negative? Do you often judge and scold yourself for not living up to some made-up standards? We all have moments when our inner dialogue spirals into a negative tirade, judging, blaming, and putting us down. One way you can counter self-accusations is to distance yourself by using second-person pronouns. Here’s how to cope with negative inner dialogue by using the pronoun-replacing strategy.

The Art of Seduction: The 9 Types of Seducers

The Art of Seduction: The 9 Types of Seducers

What are Robert Greene’s nine types of seducers in The Art of Seduction? Which types are more common among men, and which ones among women? In his book The Art of Seduction, Robert Greene describes nine types of seducers, each with a distinct seduction style. Greene says Types 1 and 2 are specifically female and male types, respectively. The other types can all apply to any gender. Below, we’ll define Greene’s nine seducer types, using his labels for them, and we’ll describe each one’s seductive quality.

Linchpin Theory: The 3 Top Traits of Valuable Employees

Linchpin Theory: The 3 Top Traits of Valuable Employees

What is Seth Godin’s linchpin theory? What are the defining characteristics of a linchpin employee? In his book Linchpin, Seth Godin explains his linchpin theory as the steps you can take to start living your most fulfilling work life. According to him, anyone can choose to create work that changes the world by becoming a “linchpin.” Read on to learn the three defining characteristics of a linchpin, according to Godin’s linchpin theory.