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Myth – Brain Plasticity
"The brain can rewire and change itself, and that means that you can learn anything."
The Self-Help Lie:
- There is no talent, only effort.
- Since the brain is plastic, you can learn anything and you can get good at anything.
The Truth:
The brain is plastic… Quite a bit. But that doesn’t mean it can rewire itself limitlessly.
What To Do:
- You can improve on pretty much anything.
- You are also better off choosing fields where you have a natural affinity for.
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Myth – Force Yourself Into Positive States
"You become what you think of. Force yourself to think positive and you’re good."
The Truth:
- Research shows that switching to a good mood when we’re normal is easy.
- When we’re anxious or stressed and we “force” ourselves to feel good is that we f...
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Myth – Release Anger
"To feel better and live fully, you must let out all negative emotions."
The Truth:
There is plenty of evidence that venting your anger actually only makes you more angry and aggressive and increases the negative consequences of anger.
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Myth – Incantations
"Repeat yourself a mantra and you will eventually come to believe it and embody it."
The Truth:
"We have found that merely repeating positive statements to yourself does not raise ...
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Myth – Only 7% of Communication is Verbal
"Most meaning of human communication is nonverbal, so you can forget about the actual words."
The Truth:
This is what, in a nutshell, the Mehrabian study tells us:
"When it comes to feelings and atittudes, we get most of our cues of the speaker’s i...
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Myth – The 10,000 Hour Rule
"If you want to become world-class good all you need to do is put in 10,000 hours."
Why It’s Wrong:
- It focuses on the quantity of time practicing, not the quality of the practice ...
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Myth – High Self-Esteem
"The more confident and the higher your self esteem, the better off you are."
The Truth:
That’s not wholly wrong. High self-esteem is good.
But only if accompanied by a
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Myth – EI Is 80% Of Success
"IQ doesn’t matter, it’s all about how you understand and get along with people."
The Truth:
- Travis Bradberry, author of Emotional Intelligence 2.0, found out that EI rises until mid-level management but then decreases at CEO level.
- Hence, if we ...
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Myth – Visualize Winning
"The more you visualize yourself winning, the closer you get to actually winning."
The Truth:
- Thinking about goals increases the number of times people thought of those goals and decreased the amount of a...
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Myth – Smile And You’re Happy
"To be happy, you just need to smile."
The Lie:
This was actually backed by a famous study originally called in psychology the “facial feedback hypothesis” (
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Myth – Law of Attraction
"If you think often enough and with enough conviction about what you want you can attract it in your life."
The Truth:
From a psychological perspective, this notion has some merit but there is
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Myth – Focus Only on Positives
"If you focus on positives you will be happier and more successful. If you focus on the negative you will be unhappier."
The Truth:
- Frederickson and Losada found out that too many positi...
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Once the ratio hit about 11 to 1, positive emotions began doing more harm than good. Beyond that balance of positive-to-negative, Life becomes a festival of Panglossian cluelessness, where self-delusion suffocates self-improvement.
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Violence ensues when people feel that their favorable views of themselves are threatened or disputed by others.
As a result, people whose self-esteem is high but lacks a firm basis in genuine accomplishment are especially prone ...
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Myth – Goal Setting in Yale
"A survey of Yale’s class of 1953 found out that people who wrote down their goals out-earned all the rest by several orders of magnitude."
The Truth:
Some people looked for the source of this study.
And there was none.
Finally,
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As you learn something, your brain wires more specialized circuitry for solving the problem with less effort. Using less of your brain is an advantage, since that is more efficient.
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Flow is when you are so consumed by a task or activity that you lose track of time, for instance, gardening, reading, or watching a movie. It's an optimal experience that can make you happy. Flow can be achieved in almost any activity that requires prolonged mental effort.
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