Your Attitude: Positive vs. Negative
Posted on May 3, 2008
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This may sound like a really stupid question: Why would one go with a negative attitude when they might have a positive one?
Consciously, few of us would ever choose the negative side. But what actually happens quite often, is that we act as if we indeed had a negative attitude.
To support this strong statement, here are a couple of questions for you to answer to yourself:
Everything is against you? Bring it on track.
Posted on November 30, 2007
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Feel overloaded? Multitasking? Overwhelmed? That’s understandable — many things to care about, willingness to do your best and overdeliver.
You’ve done your best working on your last project but the other party changed their mind and suggest to roll back and make over? Yes, that’s annoying at least.
Most of the world seems to be against you and you think you may have lost your luck? Yes, we all have moments like that. Get a grip!
What can you do when circumstances make you drift in an unclear direction?
Here are a few tips.
Will listening while falling asleep help you learn a foreign language? Nope. But it still may be helpful.
Posted on November 8, 2007
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In fact, never thought of writing on this eternal controversial topic — learning while sleeping. That’s just like “Is there life on Mars?”. Or kind of that.
But have read today How to Learn (But Not Master) Any Language in 1 Hour and could not refrain from covering the slippery subject myself.
Can you learn a new language while sleeping? The short answer is “No, you can’t”.
Does it make sense to listen to spoken foreign language before going to sleep? The short answer is: “Yes”.
And what is the help from listening?
The effect is improvement of your listening comprehension skills.
Basically, the more you listen to foreign speech (at a suitable for you level, of course; that is, you need to know most of the vocabulary you hear) — the better and easier you can discern spoken language. In a relaxed state, just before falling asleep, your brain apparently is receptive to sounding of what you are hearing. Read more
Waiting drives you crazy? 5 useful things that will make you crave for a queue
Posted on November 1, 2007
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1. MP3 player with audio books or podcasts of your choice
2. E-books and articles (as well as a web browser, text editor, games and lots of other useful stuff) in a small laptop
3. Communicator like BlackBerry, Treo and the like
4. Old-fashioned prints like a newspaper or glossy magazines
5. A book (printed one)
Yes, # 4 and 5 are still valid options. You can pick it and put into your pocket or bag and usually not worry too much if it gets stolen, dropped or lost.
Job burnout? Burning out? Have burnt? Cool down!
Posted on October 19, 2007
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Do you feel tired? Real fatigued and worn out? Even on Mon or even on Sun or Sat too?
Oh poor you. Looks like you’re truly devoted to what you are doing.
While you haven’t dropped from tiredness and can read, let’s outline a self-repair plan. Read more
Did Joe really mean that? Looking for connotations
Posted on October 8, 2007
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Maybe it happened to you that you couldn’t get rid of a conversation and was playing it over and over again in your mind? If you are one of the rare people who never experienced that, stop reading. The below is for the majority of us who had a chance to face this phenomenon. It happens. The questions is Why?
Usually your brain aims at gaining a better insight of the situation. This is necessary to build effective strategies and tactics for your survival. Most of the time your brain collects and processes data about your environment — from basic physical metrics like outside temperature to less trivial info like “Can I trust Bob?”, “Does Jane like me?”, etc. The latter are your perceptions of people. It’s worth mentioning that the vast majority of this data collection is done by your brain in an unconscious manner in order not to bother you too much and too often. OK, but this still does not explain that record play back. We are close.
Surrounded by idlers and loafers or How to deal with lazy people
Posted on September 30, 2007
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Jack is a good guy, he’s energetic and always looks busy. Always involved and works hard. He just can’t stand Nick. Jack says Nick is lazy.
The guys work in the same office in one room and usually meet daily. Jack is a project manager and he’s responsible for several simultaneous projects. Multi-tasking, working late nights and sometimes even weekends is a valid brief description of his job. Nick is a sales person and is usually busy cold-calling, organizing meetings, publishing ads and working on tenders. Nick is a nice friendly guy who usually works from 9 to 5, rarely staying late.
If you are like Jack, it’s a typical situation when you are set to believe that you are surrounded by lazy people and it’s only you yourself who’s doing the work.
Although it may be the case that you’re loaded with all the work, the problem actually is not that other people are lazy. The problem is that you are overloaded. Read more
Organic food for your brains
Posted on September 27, 2007
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Cannot get the phrase “organic food” out of my mind for a few days already. We all probably know of organic food, nothing new in this. But I get haunted by thoughts of it in a figurative sense.
Is there a place for analogous concept to express good and healthy mental pabulum? I surely think so. If you try keeping your brain fit, healthy and slim — it apparently needs healthy “food”.
Here are some quick hints on distinguishing between the 2 sorts of food for your thoughts.
You are not arrogant, are you?
Posted on September 22, 2007
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Although it may sound paradoxically, quite often shy people are perceived by others as arrogant. Actually that’s an explainable phenomenon. One source of arrogance lays in depths of our unconscious trying to protect our self-esteem. Also it may occur due to intensive concentration on our own problems when were are focused on ourselves.
Of course, being reputed as arrogant may have pernicious influence on your relationships, ability to find and retain friends, and on overall quality of your life.
So what do yo do? Simple: find out whether your are used to arrogant behavior; and if yes — get rid of that habit.
How to don’t give up
Posted on September 16, 2007
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Stumbled upon this article: Sometimes You Feel Like Giving Up. Good points all around. Fully agree that it’s best to be a person who never gives up. The question is HOW to become such a person.
Here are some hints. Read more
