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Personal Growth 2009 and Beyond

Around this time of the year, it is commonplace to discuss resolutions, goals and objectives for the next year; but I want to do something slightly different. I want to discuss two topics that test...
  • Pick The Brain published this 07 / 21 / 2009
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Learn to Understand Your Own Intelligence

Three years ago I listened to a lecture on cognition that changed the way I think about intelligence. This is the crux. There are two types of cognition. The first is normal cognition. This is the ...
  • Pick The Brain published this 07 / 21 / 2009
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6 Sure-Fire Ways to Stop Feeling Jealous

Often we see things that others have and wish that we had the same. Or sometimes, if we see somebody who is very happy, we feel a lack of happiness in our own life and feel jealous of the other per...
  • Pick The Brain published this 07 / 21 / 2009
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How to Turn Around an Unproductive Day

Some days, you wake up early, storm through tons of work before lunch, and come to the evening feeling as though you’ve accomplished a lot. For many of us, though, those days are the exception rath...
  • Pick The Brain published this 07 / 16 / 2009
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7 Ways to Grow the Action Habit

People at the top of every profession share one quality — they get things done. This ability supercedes intelligence, talent, and connections in determining the size of your salary and the speed of...
  • Pick The Brain published this 07 / 16 / 2009
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Overcoming Shyness

All my life I’ve been an inwardly directed person. While some people like to think out loud, I prefer to process the world internally, answer my own questions, and come to a conclusion before speak...
  • Pick The Brain published this 07 / 14 / 2009
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Why Am I Not Making Progress? 3 Steps To Motivate Into Action

Are you progressing in life, or are you just treading water? This is a brief article intended to motivate you beyond stagnation into purposeful action, once and for all. These are the steps I use...
  • Pick The Brain published this 07 / 07 / 2009
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Overcoming a Loss of Motivation

How many times have you started a new activity (such as a personal project or exercise routine) with a burst of enthusiasm, only to see that initial momentum evaporate? This often leads to depressi...
  • Pick The Brain published this 07 / 07 / 2009
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