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psychology

Imposter Syndrome Coping Strategies: Overcoming Self-Doubt

The only way to stop feeling like an imposter is to stop thinking like an imposter - Valerie Young

The Power Pose: Using Body Language to Project Confidence

Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it - Amy Cuddy

Positive Affirmation Model

The best way to predict the future is to create it - Abraham Lincoln

The Confidence-Competence Loop

The more you believe in your own ability to succeed, the more likely you are to do so - Norman Vincent Peale

Positive Reframing: Redirecting Mindset through Gratitude

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow - Melody Beattie

Stress Inoculation: Building Resilience through Exposure

Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient. - Steve Maraboli

Food-Mood Connection Mental Model

You are what you eat; not only physically but, more importantly, mentally - Julie Holland

Lollapalooza Effect

The human mind is a lot like the human egg, and the human egg has a shut-off device. When enough sperm gets in, it shuts down so that the next one can't get in. The human mind behaves this way a lot - Charlie Munger

The Brand Archetype

What is most personal is most universal. - Carl Jung

The Decoy Effect

I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying. - Jeff Bezos

Adversity Alchemy

In the crucible of adversity, true character is revealed and transformed. Adversity, when faced with courage and resilience, becomes the crucible for personal growth and positive change. Embrace it as the alchemy of your soul's evolution.

Mental Model of Flow in Sports

In a state of flow, people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Visual Hierarchy Mental Model

Less is more - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The Ostrich Effect

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be - Jack Welch

Stockholm Syndrome

We are not hostages of our History. It's our syndrome towards our history that determines our behavior, actions, and our perceptions. - Wayne Gerard Trotman

Cognitive Dissonance Theory

Cognitive dissonance: the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change - Leon Festinger

Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon

Your mind is actively seeking out further evidence to be sure the pattern is genuine - Tom Stafford, psychologist at the University of Sheffield

The Information Cascade

People are more likely to accept information as being true if others also believe it. This phenomenon is known as an information cascade - Michael Crichton

Scarcity Principle

Without scarcity, there would be no economics - Paul Samuelson

The Pyrrhic Victory: The Cost of Winning at All Costs

Losing a battle can be more profitable than winning - Sun Tzu

Self-Serving Bias

We tend to judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their actions - Stephen M.R. Covey

The Mere Exposure Effect

We are biologically wired to feel comfortable with what is familiar - Robert Zajonc

The Availability Heuristic Mental Model

The availability of the input to our senses and the availability of the conclusion to our memory are usually correlated - Daniel Kahneman

The Zeigarnik Effect

“The Zeigarnik Effect teaches us that one weapon for beating procrastination is starting somewhere…anywhere.” - Nir Eyal

Locus of Control

"The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose." - J. Martin Kohe

The Hawthorne Effect: Understanding Workplace Behavior

'The mere-exposure effect is a psychological phenomenon by which people develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them.' - Robert Zajonc

The Halo Effect

"We see people not as they are, but as we are." - Anais Nin

The Pygmalion Effect

"High expectations are the key to everything." - Sam Walton

Habit Loop Model

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

The Paradox of Choice

Learning to choose is hard. Learning to choose well is harder. And learning to choose well in a world of unlimited possibilities is harder still, perhaps too hard.

The Winner Effect

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

La cinta de correr Hedonica

La felicidad, no en otro lugar sino en este lugar, no durante otra hora sino en esta hora. - Walt Whitman

The Stockdale Paradox

You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end - which you can never afford to lose - with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

Emotional Intelligence

It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head--it is the unique intersection of both. - David Caruso

Dunning-Kruger Effect

In the field of psychology, the Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is.

Anchoring Effect

We have an irrational bias toward the first information we hear, see, or experience. This first piece of information is the anchor for everything that follows. - Charlie Munger

Confirmation Bias

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. - Seneca