There are many books on bets and impossible feats where always the reader wins while the unsuspecting party loses. Although these ideas make for great conversation material you can also win some money if you know how to leverage them. Firstly it’s all on you’re persona. If the other person believes that they can win …
Like my friends I like doing nothing better on Fridays then reading academic journals. Here is a recent study I came across. “[T]he ability to detect deceit is important in many contexts; no doubt this is why there has been extensive research on the topic […] However, until recently very little research had examined the …
A study by the new scientist has found out that our profile pictures maybe saying a lot more about our personalities than we intended to. Here are their findings: People who scored high in conscientiousness tended to show themselves on their own rather than in groups. They also expressed positive emotions in their pictures. Those …
It’s not easy telling if someone you’ve just meet is an honest person or not. Thankfully in his very informative book author Richard Wiseman offers a unique solution. If you want to find out whether the person sitting across you is a devil or an angle, just ask them to draw the letter Q across …
Before the interview you need to be feeling good about yourself. You need a win. It’s proven that winning increases your confidence. So before the interview come in the right frame of mind. Talk to people you don’t normally talk to. Dial random numbers on your phone and get the other person to recommend a …
“As a pop novelist, he was divine. A Crichton book was a headlong experience driven by a man who was both a natural storyteller and fiendishly clever when it came to verisimilitude; he made you believe that cloning dinosaurs wasn’t just over the horizon but possible tomorrow. Maybe today.” -Stephen King In his life Micheal …
The saying jack of all trades and a master of none is as old as print media. You can’t become a master at everything and it’s better to stick with one thing or so goes the wisdom. What if I told you that no one was a master of none. They weren’t a jack of …
Many of us keep wondering how people get rich, what is the secret to their success? If getting rich was easy everyone would be rich and then being rich would have no value. To understand why some people make it and why many others don’t is because those you are rich and I’m talking billionaire level …
In 1992 a British psychologist walked into two of Scotland’s busiest orthopedic hospitals and recruited five dozen patients for an experiment she hoped would explain how to boost the willpower of people exceptionally resistant to change. The patients on average were sixty years old. Most of them earned …
The ability to predict a company’s success is extremely valuable. Stock traders try to do it every day to make their clients and themselves wealthy. It turns out that we can predict the accomplishments of CEOs at least as measured by the profitability of the companies they run. All from a photograph. My good friend …
