6 Posts found for Source: ChangeThis

The quality of your life is directly related to the quality of your stories. Especially those you tell yourself.

Author: Pamela Slim | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

People’s inflated belief in the importance of personality traits and dispositions, together with their failure to recognize the importance of situational factors in affecting behavior, has been termed the “fundamental attribution error.”

Author: Lee Ros | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Instead of being told to change their environment, the prominent self-help advice continues to charge people to change themselves. I can’t emphasize enough how terrible this advice is. It’s actually impossible to change yourself without also changing your environment. Your environment and you are two indivisible parts of the same whole. […] Continuing to focus on mind-set, willpower, and goal-setting is an outdated and misplaced … [ Read more ]

Author: Benjamin Hardy | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Personal Improvement

Making sustainable and lasting change requires focus. Not just momentary “let’s do it” enthusiasm, but the willingness to make a sustained and consistent effort over time. This is best achieved by identifying one behavior (or even one part of one behavior), and working on it until you see evidence of progress. That’s because making small changes, and repeating them until they become habitual, is more … [ Read more ]

Authors: Marshall Goldsmith, Sally Helgesen | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Personal Improvement

Resistance is a powerful force, a demon that holds all of us back from making changes we know would improve the quality of our lives. Our neural systems are designed to favor the path of least resistance, the path that uses the least energy, the path we’ve created by our prior thoughts and actions. When we repeat actions or behaviors, we establish neural pathways that … [ Read more ]

Authors: Marshall Goldsmith, Sally Helgesen | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

This manifesto will facilitate your philosophical examination as you iron out what you believe and why you believe it. We do this by providing a philosophical toolkit, as well as a framework for considering the principal areas of philosophy. Ancient Greek philosophers had a concept they called “arete.” It is often translated as “excellence” or “virtue,” but Brian Johnson of ThinkArete says it’s better defined … [ Read more ]

Authors: Jason Shen, Joshua Goldman | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Philosophy