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The Mel Robbins Guide to Screwing Up

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In her book, The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success , Megan McArdle explains that we gain skills by practicing things because we’re strengthening the connection between the action and the reward. Strike up a conversation with a complete stranger. The dopamine level drops when we do something wrong.

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5 Reasons to Question Everything

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Blame it on a grown-up world that tends to put more value on having answers than asking for them. Before you know it, you’ll come up with ideas that you’re more likely to act upon. This article was published in March 2014 and has been updated. We all know that kids ask a lot of questions. Questions enable you to solve problems.

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4 Friendship Apps to Help You Connect with New People

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Although the COVID-19 pandemic is an obvious contributor to the declining number and quality of friendships, other factors stacked up well before that health crisis—particularly among adults who have to juggle career, family and personal obligations. Meeting in the virtual world can even translate to forming friendships offline.

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8 Reasons Why Walks Are Good for Relationships

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My web sleuthing has turned up no such studies. Walking is, in its own humble way, a form of travel. This article was published in August 2014 and has been updated. Where are all the studies on how walks benefit relationships? Well, no biggie. Walks benefit relationships by showing you care.

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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2014

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The Convergence of Mobile, Cloud, Data and Analytics:  Individually each of these technology trends has been on our annual top 10 lists in some form for years.    And short-form video applications like Vines and Instagram are making consumers familiar with taking, posting and watching short-form videos. This

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How to Be a Better Thinker, Innovator and Problem Solver

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Like anything, coming up with solutions and new ways to see things takes practice. Behavioral strategists Dan Gregory and Kieran Flanagan, authors of the 2014 book Selfish, Scared & Stupid , teach people in business how to become better thinkers , innovators and problem solvers. Don’t come up with ideas.

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The Rise of Independent Worker Teams: Fiverr's Studios and Upwork's Agency Experience

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.  Both services illustrate two growing trends: The trend towards independent workers teaming up via online platforms and marketplaces. These services also illustrate how the shift to cloud computing is creating new forms, structures and ways of doing business. and new ways of doing business.

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