Things you do not learn at school

When we think back to school time we remember a lot of funny things we did, what the colleagues said and what remarkable teachers we had. But if we are drawing a line and summarize the things we learned in school, which we actually make use in our daily life we find out that there are still a lot of things we wished to have in our school curriculum. In this article, I proposed to list practical things that could be interesting to learn even from the school period.

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Ideas for holding a zen presentation

Before holding a presentation we usually make some serious thoughts on how to prepare the topic in a way that makes it informative but also impressive to the audience, so that they still keep at least one main idea in mind when they leave the room.

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Learn how to manipulate a person

Some people seem to get all that they want. They just have to ask for something and it is already theirs. And you may try to figure out, how they make it. Magic? Maybe not at all, they know how to use some manipulation techniques and apply them in daily life. 

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About gratitude

According to Wikipedia gratitude is defined as “thankfulness, or gratefulness, from the Latin word gratus ‘pleasing, thankful’ and is a feeling of appreciation felt by and/or similar positive response shown by the recipient of kindness, gifts, help, favors, or other types of generosity, towards the giver of such gifts.”

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What are your mental habits?

Why are mental habits important in order to be successful? Habits help our brain to work more efficiently. 

When we repeat day by day the same kind of actions after a period of 90 days our brain will consider them as habits and will not use supplementary energy when effectuating them. These actions work as habits under autopilot. The brain capacity is open to new challenges. 

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How to stop losing time

Lost time is never found again. – Benjamin Franklin

Time is our most valuable resource, but only a few of us know how to make use of the 24 hours of the day. This makes finally the difference – to know how to make use of your time most efficiently and to stop losing your most precious resource. For this post, I selected a couple of time-management strategies in order to organize yourself better. 

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Did you already know the 5 factors of emotional intelligence (EQ)?

The term „emotional intelligence“ has become highly popular together with Daniel Goleman’s bestseller with the same name. According to Goleman emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize, understand and manage your own emotions. 

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Living a happier life in 9 steps

We all want to be happy. We all strive to be happy. But many of us are not aware of what makes us happy at all. 

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13 Methods that will make you more intelligent

According to Wikipedia “Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving. More generally, it can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.”

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8 Mistakes you are making during a conversation

What is the conversation? According to an online Oxford definition, it is “a talk, especially an informal one, between two or more people, in which news and ideas are exchanged.”

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