Your mind is a force to be reckoned with. How you use it can either make you or break you. Believing in one thing can prevent you from reaching your full potential, while believing in another can push you toward becoming the person you’ve always wanted to be. It’s all a matter of … [Read more...] about Carol Dweck on Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset
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What Causes Stress? The Three Conditions That Cause Stress
In the book The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings, and the Biology of Boom and Bust, author John Coates talks quite a bit about the biological function of stress and what chronic stress does to the human body. In the 1950s, renowned psychologist Hans Selye … [Read more...] about What Causes Stress? The Three Conditions That Cause Stress
The Physiology and Biology of Mental Toughness
I just finished the book The Hour Between Dog And Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust by neuroscientist John Coates. It is definitely a good book and I learned quite a bit from it. If you ever get the chance, I urge you to read it. Most of the book … [Read more...] about The Physiology and Biology of Mental Toughness
How Long Does it Take for Something to Become a Habit?
The amount of time it takes for something to become a habit will vary depending on your source of information. Depending on who you ask, you can get answers anywhere from a week to a year. But the most popular answer is 21 days----postulated in the 1960s by Maxwell Maltz, a … [Read more...] about How Long Does it Take for Something to Become a Habit?
The Mental State of Flow And How to Achieve It
In psychology, flow is a mental state in which one is completely immersed and engaged in an activity, wherein one is fully focused, energized, and enjoy the activity in which one is immersed in. The most extreme (yet typical) example of flow is when artists are fully immersed in … [Read more...] about The Mental State of Flow And How to Achieve It