Tag: lessons learned in life
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25 Things Everyone Needs to to Do On Their Own In Life
The beauty of life is that it’s ours to create. To build the life that we desire – and there are no exceptions – we must we willing to achieve some things individually, and it all starts with the willingness to teach and learn. One of the big problems in society – in particular,…
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Are You A Highly Sensitive Person?
You have probably heard of the term “empath” before, but this grouping of specific characteristics actually has another name as well: the highly sensitive person, or HSP. Dr. Elaine Aron, a psychologist who began studying extreme sensitivity in people in 1991, discovered that around 15-20% of the population carries the traits of HSPs. While researchers…
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10 Life Lessons You Weren’t Taught In School
Ironically, most of us spend at least 12-16 years of our lives in school, yet, we don’t learn much about real-life during our time there. Even the new “common core” education doesn’t begin to cover the true lesson that we need as adults to function properly in this world and stimulate our growth. That claim…
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10 Things You Need To Know About Highly Sensitive People
We have talked about highly sensitive people before. But if this is your first time hearing the term, here is a quick recap. Before the 1990s, no one had really heard about extreme sensitivity in humans. But in 1991, a psychologist named Dr. Elaine Aron began to study this trait more closely. Surprisingly, she found…
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4 Lifehacks From Historic Philosophers That Will Change Your Life
When we think of ancient philosophers, we tend to think in terms of long-winded, overly-complex and mostly non-relatable advice that was appropriate for the day but has no relevance now. Well, that is not entirely true. While some of their advice might be a bit long-winded, it is very relevant to today. It is also…
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10 Things to Learn From Failure
Golly…we are a success-driven society, aren’t we? Society seems to judge how successful one is by a number of superficial factors: your income, car, home, profession, etc. One of the last things any of us wants to be considered is a failure, right? Just the word failure creates a negative undercurrent of emotion within us.…