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Thursday, 12 November 2020 05:04

Country where people are afraid to tell pollsters what they think

Michael Barone “I like a good contrarian argument as much as the next guy,” tweets Real Clear Politics analyst Sean Trende, “but there’s really no getting around the fact that the 2020 polling was a pile of steaming garbage.” “The national polls were even worse than they were four years ago,” writes New York Times polling guru Nate Cohn. “Whatever steps pollsters took to improving after 2016 were cancelled out by a new set of problems.” Trende and Cohn have earned credibility as two of the few political analysts who spotted, before Donald Trump’s surprise victory of 2016, that white…

Thursday, 12 November 2020 05:02

Two hidden personality traits that high achievers have in common

Mark Travers Psychologists tend to speak of personality in terms of five overarching traits: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. New research forthcoming in the journal Personality and Individual Differences suggests that psychologists need to dig a bit deeper to find the personality traits predictive of high achievement. “The two factors within the five-factor model of personality most frequently associated with achievement are conscientiousness and openness,” state the authors of the research, led by Thomas Gatzka of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). “Whereas conscientiousness encompasses numerous traits with relevance for learning success, such as achievement…

Sunday, 08 November 2020 05:49

Every leader should work on 3 things to create influence and impact

Leaders can generate trust with those they lead by developing themselves in three areas. Chattanooga is one of the many American cities with unpredictable weather patterns. The summers are hot and muggy, the winters are short but cold and wet, and the spring and fall are, well, you just never know. For those of us who live in Chattanooga, it's perfect. Well, maybe not perfect, but it's home and we learn to adapt to the changes in the climate because the weather is one of the many things in life we can't control. In his recently released book, Transfluence: How…

Sunday, 08 November 2020 05:48

How to make someone feel extraordinary by saying very little

I walked into his office, a defeated salesman on the verge of quitting. Two hours later, I joined his mentorship program and signed a loan commitment for $12,500. Nobody had ever made me feel like I was a man of such importance and stature. I strutted out the door, feeling like I owned the world. But it didn’t start out that way. I had stepped into his office hesitantly, intimidated by his display of success. The walls displayed photographs of his skiing exploits from all over the world. His desk featured the requisite “Man with Mercedes” photo. All of the…

Saturday, 07 November 2020 02:07

FG continues to threaten social media regulation. This is why Nigerians are concerned

In our series of letters from African writers, Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani looks at why the Nigerian authorities are worried about social media and its impact in the era of #EndSars protests. Over the past week, some Nigerian state governors and public officials have called for some sort of regulation of social media, though not a total shutdown. "Social media has come to stay and it will be an antithesis to democracy to shut it down because it is the fastest way of disseminating information," the country's Information Minister Lai Mohammed assured. "However, we must regulate social…

Saturday, 07 November 2020 02:06

Many young Ghanaians come to Nigeria as farm workers. This is their story and what they take back home

Young Ghanaians who travelled to Nigeria to work as farm hands show the most precious possession they took with them. The young Ghanaian men and boys who come to this farm in Osun state, Nigeria, each year to find work mostly say they do it in order to improve their lives once they return home. They have been brought in to the country in groups by a “master” – usually an older Ghanaian who has lived for several years in Nigeria. At the end of nearly a year of hard work hoeing ridges, weeding and planting in often difficult conditions,…

Saturday, 07 November 2020 02:05

If you do these 9 things every day, you’ll be seen as a good leader

As my best friend, borrowing from the author Annie Dillard, likes to say, how we spend our days is how we spend our lives. Our seemingly small, day-to-day decisions are ultimately the ones that bear the most weight. It’s these choices and habits that add up to comprising who we are as individuals — and who we are as leaders. Below, we heard from CEOs and other leadership experts about the habits and choices that true leaders make a part of their lives every single day. 1. They schedule in daily “me” time “The one thing that a CEO should…

Wednesday, 04 November 2020 05:16

The pandemic has changed leadership forever. Here’s how to be good at it

Emily DSilva Well before there was even a whiff of coronavirus, the attributes that were predicted to be the most important for business leaders by 2030 were the ability to be innovative, adaptive to change, and collaborative across the business. With the sudden curveball thrown by the pandemic this year, businesses have had to adapt the way they operate almost overnight, and greater pressure and responsibility has been put on the shoulders of leaders in the workplace. It became clear that those predicted qualities are most certainly what was needed during the pandemic. The future of work isn’t clear, but…

Tuesday, 03 November 2020 04:41

#EndSARS: The man who gave his life for a better Nigeria

More than 6ft (183cm) tall and well-built, Anthony Unuode, 28, dreamed of serving in the Nigerian army, but was killed by thugs breaking up protests against police brutality in the capital Abuja, writes the BBC's Nduka Orjinmo after attending his memorial. As hundreds of candles burned into the night, friends, family and strangers spoke about Anthony and his selflessness, while some shuffled their feet in grief, heavy with the burden of his death. "Have we betrayed the dead?" asked one man, who said he did not know Anthony personally but, like many others, felt a kinship had developed between them…

Sunday, 01 November 2020 04:58

You can wipe out your risk of heart disease by cutting out this food type

While your diet is widely known as one of the most crucial factors in getting or staying on track when it comes to physical and mental health, new research has actually suggested that 2 out of every 3 deaths from heart disease could have been prevented by making an effort to adopt a healthier diet. Based on the study, there seems to be a compelling case to make a real effort to eliminate processed foods from our diet—especially if you have a history of cardiovascular disease in your family or already suffer from pre-existing health conditions. “More than 6 million…

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Saturday, 31 October 2020 04:37

12 habits that can help you become smarter and wiser in less than 10 minutes daily

Thomas Oppong Intelligence is a work in progress. Everything a smart person knows, they learned from somewhere at one point or another. Getting smarter doesn’t necessarily mean a huge commitment of time and energy every day. If you can consistently train your brain to adapt to new situations and information — you will get smarter with time. The good news is, you don’t have to spend a lot of time every day to become wiser, intelligent or smarter than you were yesterday. You can invest just 5 or ten minutes every day to do more of what helps you upgrade…

Thursday, 29 October 2020 04:44

If this is your sense of humor, you may be more intelligent

CW Headley In art, a morbid sensibility is often meant to indicate depth on behalf of the creator. For patrons, the same is often perceived as anti-social. The research literature is a little more nuanced, often suggesting that it’s more than possible for healthy subjects to appreciate both the humor and seriousness of unpleasant outcomes. This capacity may even be more common among the highly intelligent. According to a new study published in the journal Cognitive Processing, compartmentalizing different aspects of “black humor” requires advanced cognitive and emotional development. Every time we laugh at something disturbing, like an octogenarian slipping…

Wednesday, 28 October 2020 05:37

Professor behind Yale’s widely popular happiness course gives outline of how best to care for self

Laurie Santos The best way to be nicer to yourself is to be nicer to others, says Yale psychologist The most popular course at Yale isn't a freshman survey or some easy A. It's Psych 157: Psychology and the Good Life. Taught by professor Laurie Santos, the course covers the science of happiness and how to apply it. Since its launch in 2018, it's been taken by a quarter of Yale students and more than 200,000 others in its online version. Which speaks volumes about how, underneath the hustle and bustle of modern life, we all yearn for happiness. Why…

Sunday, 25 October 2020 05:35

Want to pay someone a life-changing compliment? Start with these 6 words

It's all about preparing the other person to expect your compliment, and framing it in the right way. What if I could show you how to improve the way you give compliments, and create truly memorable moments for the objects of your praise, simply by framing your words a bit differently? I discovered this technique by accident years ago, and I've spent quite a bit of time considering and researching how it works. Its roots are grounded in a simple truth of psychology and emotional intelligence that I think we all understand. The framing works quickly, and it comes down…

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