Self improvement comes in slow paces: let's try to be 1% better than we have been yesterday.
1 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Dastan
It happens when consumers change their preference between two options when presented with a third option, or decoy. The decoy is priced to make one of the other options much more attractive. The decoy is not intended to sell, just to nudge consumers...
28 Feb 2020 5 minute read 0 comments Dastan
We all have goals and aspirations. Some are small micro goals like getting up 20 minutes earlier or walking to work more often. Some are larger like packing on 30 pounds of muscle or starting our own business. Whatever form our goals take and however...
25 Feb 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Dastan
1. Consistent Timing Set aside specific time constraints for one given activity. E.g. showering from 8-8:15. If you do this every day your brain and body will get accustomed to it and crave showering every time 8h comes around. Why? Because our brain...
22 Feb 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Dastan
There’s an old Woody Allen quotation that “80% of success is just showing up.” This quotation is used to motivate people to get started on what they want to achieve and has even helped me when thinking about the significance of competition (turns out...
18 Feb 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Dastan
People want to be liked. This sounds like a truism, which of course it is. With very rare exceptions such as clinically diagnosable sociopaths—who I'm not going to advise on without professional qualifications—people would rather be liked than not li...
17 Feb 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Dastan
You have promised yourself not to take that extra chocolate chip cookie, then, 10 minutes later you are staring with awe at its empty case… You have promised yourself to go jogging in the evening and suddenly the laziness monster creeps in and dissua...
13 Feb 2020 7 minute read 2 comments Dastan
There are many different kinds of intelligence, and it’s our job to discover what they are and how to integrate them into our lives. Sources of intelligence can be measured in quotients. Most of us are familiar with IQ, or the intelligence quotient,...
12 Feb 2020 4 minute read 2 comments Dastan
Do you feel like you have more potential than you’re expressing? Like there’s this gap between who you are and who you could be? That can be a frustrating place to be. Luckily, one of the most prominent psychologists of all time studied this exact pr...
5 Feb 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Dastan
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” — Albert Einstein The Dip Across language learning, company building, and any kind of creative...
31 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Dastan
Have Self-Compassion Self-compassion is being willing to look at your mistakes or failures with kindness and understanding—without harsh criticism or defensiveness. Most of us believe that we need to be hard on ourselves to perform at our best, but...
