Did you know that there is zero proof to suggest that, generally speaking, people who have kids are happier than those who don’t? In fact, there is evidence to suggest to the contrary Psychology Professor at the University of California, Sonya Lyubomirskiy, cited research in her book ‘The How Of Happiness’ (al) that clearly demonstrated […]
Read More ›I was reading a thread on Quora the other day in which people were sharing tricks they knew of that car salespeople implemented to get people to buy. One guy shared a couple he was aware of (he wasn’t a salesperson himself), but then went on to say that 30% of car salespeople he’d interacted […]
Read More ›When it comes to psychological experiments the period spanning the 40 years or so after the end of World War II was nothing short of scary. Scientists were physically administering electric shocks to people with sometimes, high doses of electricity, putting others (often children) through severe mental and physical trauma and abusing animals to an […]
Read More ›Carve out about 30-minutes. I know, I know, you’ve got shit to do and that’s a long time, but stop whining and do it anyway because research conducted by clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson suggests it will be well worth your while. I’d prefer you to use a pen and paper for this, but if you’re not […]
Read More ›You gaze down through the open window at the sparkling Ionia sea resplendent in the late summer sun. Your taxi weaves itself dexterously down the narrow mountain road from Vrachionas, the highest point on the Greek island of Zakynthos. The sun twinkles and a hundred shades of azure bounce back from the gently lapping waves. […]
Read More ›I was working with a client recently who was looking to make some big changes in his life. He was frustrated because he’d really wanted to start his own business for over a decade. But he kept putting it off and didn’t know why. He had a great job in terms of income, but he […]
Read More ›We are coming up that *that* time of year. Your calendar is top heavy. Perhaps like me you’re having to endure the lights on the house next door bursting into a rendition of ‘deck the halls with boughs of holly’ every time a person walks past and triggers the motion sensor, and self development bloggers […]
Read More ›In 2016 the Chinese installed the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer that immediately wrested the record of fastest supercomputer on the planet from another Chinese machine called Milky Way-2. How fast is it you may be wondering? Pretty fast. It can handle well over 20,000 trillion calculations per second and undertake more calculations in a day than […]
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