behavior

How To Take Good Advice and Actually Use It To Better Your Life

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Good advice is a waste of your time. Yes, you read that right. Good advice is mostly useless. Why? Because no matter how good the advice is you’ll probably forget it and never use it. One of the big ironies of the many personal development blogs that have sprouted up all over the internet is […]

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We All Need To Be Behavioral Biologists

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Understanding human behavior is valuable. Robert Sapolsky strongly expresses this sentiment in the first class of his Human Behavioral Biology course, taught at Stanford University in 2010 (it is available for free online and I have begun to summarize it). It is a sentiment I share. In the very first class, Sapolsky takes the time to emphasize to […]

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