Social Life
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Make Keeping Secrets a Little Easier by Expanding Your Idea of HonestySocial Life 2016. 6. 7. 18:46
Keeping a secret often feels like a lie of omission, and that puts a lot of pressure on you mentally. To make it less taxing on yourself, expand your concept of what being honest means. It might seem dishonest to withhold information from someone, but it doesn’t have to be. After all, they aren’t your beans to spill. Art Markman, Ph.d., professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of ..
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The Most Dangerous U.S. Cities for DriversSocial Life 2016. 6. 7. 18:39
Driving comes with its share of risk and danger, and some cities are more dangerous than others. NerdWallet looked at data in the 200 most populous cities in the U.S. to rank the safest and most dangerous for drivers. To come up with their numbers, NerdWallet analyzed five factors: the rate of fatal crashes, the likelihood of an accident compared to other cities, the number of years between acci..
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The Science Behind Why a Wingman Can Help Get You a DateSocial Life 2016. 6. 7. 17:49
If sitcoms have taught us anything (besides how to make terrible life choices), it’s that a wingman can help when you’re trying to get a date. This video explains how this strategy actually helps both men and women. As it turns out, humans aren’t the only species to use the wingman strategy. As the video states, turkeys, fireflies, and even lance tailed manakins all use a form of strategy where ..
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The Non-Awkward Way to Acknowledge Someone You Barely Know as You Walk BySocial Life 2016. 6. 7. 03:03
You’re walking down the street when you see that friend of a friend you met at that thing. You don’t want to stop and have an awkward chat, but you also don’t want to be rude. Here’s a simple eye contact trick that works every time. According to Ronald Riggio, a professor at Claremont McKenna College who specializes in nonverbal communication, it’s disingenuous to completely avoid eye contact wh..
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How a Calendar Actually Sabotages Your Time Management EffortsSocial Life 2016. 6. 7. 02:50
We all struggle with time management, and we all want to know the best ways to conquer our schedules. In this video, Dan Ariely, a behavioral economics professor at Duke University and friend of Lifehacker, says the calendar definitely isn’t one of them. As Ariely points out in the video, a calendar almost always misrepresents how much time you actually have. If you look at your calendar two mon..
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Highlight Your Impact, Not Your Tasks, For a Better ResumeSocial Life 2016. 6. 7. 02:47
You have one page to prove to a potential employer that you’re worth hiring. Don’t waste time transcribing every task you ever carried out. Highlight how much impact those tasks had for the company. As advice site Muse points out, there’s a big difference between the work you did and the effect it had. Sure, you can say that at your old job you made phone calls and acquired new clients, but it’s..
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Refocus Your Attention On What Makes You Happy to Avoid FOMOSocial Life 2016. 6. 7. 02:29
The fear of missing out isn’t always a bad thing. If you’re paying more attention to your Facebook feed than your family, though, it can drag you down. When you feel the FOMO setting in, try adjusting the focus ring on your happiness. As tips site Barking Up the Wrong Tree points out, getting dragged into a FOMO cycle often says more about our own motivations than the thing we fear missing out o..
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Learn From Your Career Rivals to Avoid Jealousy and Improve YourselfSocial Life 2016. 6. 7. 02:27
TV sitcoms have taught us that if someone’s doing better than you at your career, your goal should be to crush them with righteous fury. While that makes for a great story, learning from them will probably help more. While there’s nothing wrong with a healthy spirit of competition, you’re missing out on an educational experience if you get bitter at your rivals, rather than learning from them. A..