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Have We Been Thinking About Willpower the Wrong Way for 30 Years?

By Nir Eyal — 2016

Even though I knew that eating ice cream and sitting for a long time were probably bad ideas, I told myself that relaxation was my well-deserved reward for working so hard.

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How to Increase Willpower and Be Mentally Tough

Learning how to increase willpower requires time.

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Ryan Clements
2020
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What Is the Ego, and Why Is It So Involved in My Life?

The concept of "ego" is among the most confusing in psychology.

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Mark Leary
2019
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7 Practical Ways to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence measures our ability to perceive our own emotions, as well as the emotions of others, and to manage them in a productive and healthy way.

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Hannah Braime
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5 Skills to Help You Develop Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is a set of skills you can get better at with practice. Here are five skills you can cultivate to make you a more emotionally intelligent person.

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Mark Manson
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Why Taking a Mental Health Day Isn’t Always Enough

A mental health day is a great time to indulge in self-care. Nevertheless, only practicing self-care once in a while isn’t always enough.

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Ashley Laderer
2021
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10 Ways to Build Confidence

So many successful people credit their sense of self and their confidence to their success. But not many people really explain how to build confidence, or how to become confident.

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Frances Bridges
2017
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Social Isolation’s High Physical and Psychological Toll

Studies of polar researchers, astronauts, and others in isolation shed light on possible effects of social distancing, including increased forgetfulness, depression and heart attacks.

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Betsy Morris
2020
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The Surprising Science of Goal Setting (and Why You’re Probably Doing It Wrong)

Setting goals points us in the right direction and helps us clarify our values. But hanging on to goals when they no longer serve us is a recipe for misery.

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Mark Manson
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Bestselling Author Gay Hendricks Reveals Our Biggest Barriers to Success and How to Overcome Them

About six years ago, a colleague of mine mentioned a powerful book she read that changed how she saw herself and her largest barriers to living a happier life. I raced to read it, and found it transformative in my life, and began teaching the principles to my clients.

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Kathy Caprino
2017
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We Are Unlimited Potential: a Talk with Joseph Chilton Pearce

Joseph Chilton Pearce tells Charles Eisenstein he believes that we have an absolutely unlimited possibility within us, and an equal amount of self-imposed limitations. For every possibility, we have a self-imposed limitation.

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Charles Eisenstein
2012
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