December 2009
2 posts
Study: making a New Year's resolution improves...
There is a great article in Wall Street Journal on New Year’s resolutions. According to a study, led by Dr. Norcross from University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, the majority of New Year’s resolutions do fail but this overshadows an important truth: the simple act of making a New Year’s resolution sharply improves your chances of accomplishing a positive change—by a factor of...
Quiz that helps you understand how good is your...
I first came across Richard Wiseman in Life On Board project (part 2 here) where he discusses the matters of luck and destiny with Cris Gardener. One point these gentlemen make and that I’ve often thought about later is that ‘luck’ is something you can create yourself. Or rather that luck is something that you don’t wait for passively but rather it comes to those that...