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How to reveal your hidden potential and be happy & successful: tips and strategies for brain power, spiritual growth and personal development

Hindsight Bias: Why We Overestimate Our Ability to Predict Events

By Janey Davies, B.A. (Hons)|2020-04-01T17:58:35+03:00April 1st, 2020|Categories: Human Brain, Psychology & Mental Health, Self-Improvement|Tags: cognitive bias, decision making, perception|

They say hindsight is a wonderful thing, but don’t you just hate it when people say things like ‘I told you that would happen’ or ‘I just knew it all along’? Are they particularly gifted in their ability to see into the future or predict the past? I’m afraid not. They are more likely to [...]

The Struggle of Living with Anxiety in Times of Crisis: How to Stay Sane

By Sherrie Hurd, A.A.|2020-03-30T14:53:08+03:00March 30th, 2020|Categories: Psychology & Mental Health, Self-Improvement|Tags: anxiety, coping, coronavirus, fear, mental health, social media|

Let me tell you, living with anxiety is beyond difficult. So, you can imagine how it feels being anxious during a crisis. I’ve lived with anxiety as long as I can remember, even dealing with panic attacks during grade school. This illness didn’t just make me a little nervous - it was much worse than [...]

5 Ways Impact Bias Is Making You Unhappy

By Lottie Miles, M.A.|2020-03-23T15:06:49+03:00March 23rd, 2020|Categories: Psychology & Mental Health, Self-Improvement|Tags: cognitive bias, decision making, happiness, mental health, perception|

When we dream of winning the lottery, we imagine that we will always be happy. But what if the way we imagine the future is not reflective of how we truly experience it? The impact bias explores the phenomena whereby we tend to overestimate our emotional response to future changes in our environment. In this [...]

Dreams about the Ocean: Interpretations and Meanings

By Janey Davies, B.A. (Hons)|2020-03-22T17:16:17+03:00March 22nd, 2020|Categories: Dream Interpretation, Self-Improvement, Self-Knowledge & Personality Tests|Tags: dream interpretation, dreams, emotions, self-analysis, subconscious|

Dreaming about the ocean can be relaxing, exhilarating or downright terrifying. To understand dreams about the ocean, you have to look at the condition and the context of the ocean. However, as a rule of thumb, oceans represent our emotions, often hidden deep within our subconscious. So whenever you are analysing oceans in dreams, take [...]

What Is Status Quo Bias and How It Leads You to a Mediocre Life

By Francesca Forsythe, LL.M., M.Phil.|2020-03-15T16:53:41+03:00March 15th, 2020|Categories: Personal Development, Psychology & Mental Health, Self-Improvement|Tags: boredom, change, cognitive bias, comfort zone, fear|

Status quo bias is a powerful cognitive bias that can affect you so severely that it leads you to live a mediocre life. There are many different cognitive biases which can have a powerful impact on our psyches and our lives. One of the most common ones is status quo bias. It stops people from [...]

‘I Hate People’: Why You Feel This Way and How to Cope

By Sherrie Hurd, A.A.|2020-03-24T16:38:12+03:00March 13th, 2020|Categories: Personal Development, Self-Improvement, Self-Knowledge & Personality Tests|Tags: anger, emotions, mindset, negative thinking, perception|

I have been guilty of saying “I hate people”, but I really don’t. There’s much more to my emotions, and I wish to think positively. Even the most friendly and extroverted person may say they hate people, but they don’t really mean it because, after all, they usually like people more than some of the [...]

5 Benefits of Slow Thinking, According to Science

By Lottie Miles, M.A.|2020-03-12T22:21:55+03:00March 12th, 2020|Categories: Brain Power, Human Brain, Self-Improvement, Uncommon Science|Tags: decision making, intelligence, mental health, stress, work|

In a world where everything inexorably requires us to speed up, most people’s intuition tells them that being faster is better. However, according to research, our intuition may not always be as good as we think it is. Moreover, thinking slow may have several benefits over fast thinking in a variety of settings. In this [...]

Communication Problems Introverts Have & How to Overcome Them

By Becky Storey|2020-03-10T13:00:35+03:00March 10th, 2020|Categories: Introvert's World, Personal Development, Personality, Self-Improvement|Tags: communication, introversion, personality, self-confidence|

Being an introvert is never easy. It’s exhausting to go about your day sometimes. Communication problems plague every conversation. Every interaction brings up thoughts of self-doubt, self-consciousness and more often than not, fear of embarrassment. Of course, not every introvert has social anxiety. However, even the most socially confident introverts find too much interaction to [...]