Skill, practice and hard work are often considered the cornerstones of success. Maybe. However, one often overlooked strategy to being great at something is - reverse engineering. By disassembling and analyzing what others have done to be successful you can find a better path to success for yourself according to psychologist Ron Freidman. Ron is an expert on human motivation and author of the book Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success (https://amzn.to/2REVhc7). Listen as he reveals how some of the top people in their field use this technique to achieve great things. 
Being an optimist has some real benefits. It also seems pretending to be an optimist, even if you aren’t one also has some of the same benefits. This episodes begins with a discussion how real or fake optimism can be good for everyone and why even the most hardened pessimist should try looking at the bright side of life. Source: Michael Mercer, PhD author of “Spontaneous Optimism (https://amzn.to/3vo7oc9).
Few things are more annoying than having flies in the house buzzing around your head or landing on your food or ruining your outdoor picnic. Flies are gross! Yet we couldn’t survive with them. There are roughly 20 million flies on the planet for every human and they actually do some very good things according to biologist Jonathan Balcombe author of the book SUPER FLY: The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects (https://amzn.to/3bVgqp3). Listen as he takes us on a tour into what it is like to be a fly and all the sometimes gross yet beneficial things flies do all around the world. 
We all probably appreciate being able to go outside more than ever. Last summer Covid-19 kept us inside for the most part but most of us now can enjoy going outside again. Listen as I explain why it is so important to get back outside and how being in nature benefits kids and teens more than you probably ever thought. https://positivepsychology.com/positive-effects-of-nature/
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