There are real benefits to looking for what you appreciate or are grateful about in bad things as well as good. ‘What is there to be grateful for in bad things?’ you might reasonably ask. Here are some ideas and research findings that might help you to benefit from adversity. Some events that are tough
(Apologies in advance for the slightly techie content – really just words like ‘WordPress’ and ‘plugins’ – but if you’re already finding the example too complicated, you can jump straight to the point of the article) Recently some bits of my website just stopped working. Unfortunately, quite important bits, like the signup button for my
It took me a long time to get round to reading Six Thinking Hats, but finally after 25 years of corporate training I took the plunge. I was expecting a brainstorming process, because that’s how I had most often heard of the ‘Six Hats’ being used, but it turns out that this short and accessible
Why do people often get bogged down in trivial decisions? It turns out that our brains use the difficulty encountered in making a decision as a factor in deciding how much more time to spend on it. Researchers Aner Sela and Jonah Berger call this process “decision quicksand”. We expect significant decisions to be difficult
You may think that you can successfully juggle several tasks. In fact you may believe that you have to multitask in order to get your work done in a reasonable time. Bad luck – the weight of research is against you, and shows that trying to multitask means that you will take longer to deal
