How to Reduce Stress, What Separates Successful People, The Root of Loneliness

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3 Ideas For Better Habits

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Success Is Consistently Doing What Others Hate to Do

Cus D’amato, Legendary boxing coach behind Mike Tyson's success, on the secret that separates successful people from others:

“Do what you hate to do, but do it like you love it.” Source: ​The Iron Mike Rule​

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Writing Reduces Stress and Heals Your Body

Trauma expert and social psychologist Dr. Pennebaker on the healing power of writing:

"What was it about secrets that were so toxic...I developed a working theory that keeping a secret was a form of active inhibition. Concealing or holding back powerful emotions, thoughts, and behaviors, I reasoned, was itself stressful.

If keeping a secret about a trauma was unhealthy, it made sense that having people reveal the secret should improve health.

The first expressive writing experiment was run in the Fall of 1983...we discovered that students randomly assigned to write about traumas for 4 days, 15 minutes a day, ended up going to the student health center over the next 6 months at about half the rate of students in the control condition.

By the mid-1990s, a consistent literature was beginning to emerge in health, clinical, and social psychology that validated the effectiveness of expressive writing in improving health." Source: ​Expressive Writing in Psychological Science​

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Loneliness Is Caused by Lack Of Communication

Renown Psychologist Carl Jung on why we feel lonely:

"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”

Source: Memories, Dreams, and Reflections​

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Today I Learned: The city with the worst traffic in the world is London. Paris, Brussels, Moscow and New York are next on the list (​Source​)

Science: A study revealed that the average woman will kiss 15 men and be heartbroken twice before meeting 'The One.' (​Source​)

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