humanbehavior
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4 Basic Job Skills Everyone Needs, But Not Everyone Has
While not an exhaustive list, four critical skills, in particular, will grow your ability to behave in ways that produce positive interactions at work, regardless of the content of your job.
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Ask These Questions Instead of ‘How Are You?’
As children, most people were taught to memorise certain dialogue in order to be considered polite in everyday situations. Along with saying “please,” “thank you,” and “nice to meet you,” we were instructed to ask someone how they’re doing — either immediately after, or as part of an initial greeting like “hello” or “good morning.”
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Calm Your Worried Mind With These Self-Soothing Techniques for Adults
Parents of little kids with big feelings may be familiar with self-soothing techniques — or ways their children can help regular their own emotions and calm themselves down. And because as adults, we’re are no strangers to disruptive emotions like anger, sadness, and fear — not to mention our everyday stress and anxiety — we…
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The Best Way to Stop Subvocalising and Read Faster
1With an almost infinite amount of information constantly at our fingertips, it helps to be able to read quickly — or at least at a decent clip. Although we may not think of what we do as “reading” in a traditional sense, many TikTok videos and Instagram reels have subtitles and captions, so even if…