Relationships — The Key to Life
“The only things that matter in life are your relations to other people.”
Close relationships are the key to successful aging, it turns out. Not low cholesterol, a healthy 401K, a long career or how...
Do Opposites Attract?
In subways and movie theaters, on the bus and in cafeterias, we gravitate towards people who look like us.
Recent studies explore this tendency. In a pool of over two thousand students, people wearing glasses consistently sat...
Marry Someone Smarter Than You Are
Entrepreneur Jim Rohn famously said,
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
While I am not convinced by the math behind this statement, I wholeheartedly believe we are influenced,...
Two Words of Advice We Rarely Hear
Go and make yourself useful.
My mother used to say this all the time when I was a child. She would whip it out whenever she suspected my sister or I were not making use...
Learn How to Read Someone Else’s Mind
If you want to improve your ability to read someone else’s mind, stop thinking about yourself. Research shows that engaging with fictional characters through literature and on screen is a great way to boost...
How Can I Make Myself Stand Out In A Job Interview?
Conventional wisdom holds that in order to stand out, it is important to highlight your achievements.
Findings from a study conducted by researchers at Harvard and Stanford University suggest taking a different strategy. If...