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Develop Your Lateral Thinking Skills
Paul Sloane
Do you sometimes get stuck for ideas? Lateral thinking is an essential skill for anyone who wants to be a smarter problem-solver, an ideas person, and a creative thinker. This course covers all the key elements of lateral thinking and shows you step by step how you can harness its key techniques to boost your brain power and creativity. It contains many inspiring stories and examples as well as tips, tricks, and methods to improve your mental agility. You will come up with better ideas at work and in other walks of life. Lateral thinking skills will help advance your career. And you will be a...
How to Boost Your Confidence
Eileen Purdy MSW, M.Ed.
Is your lack of confidence holding you back in relationships, at school, or at work? Do people around you seem to have it all together while you seem to fumble through? Do you wish you felt more confident to pursue your wildest dreams? Many people falter when thinking they don’t have what it takes. Successful people, on the other hand, when faced with the same doubts, know they just need to learn and practice certain skills and their confidence and dreams will follow. You can do this too. Learn the tools, strategies, and information needed to increase your confidence and achieve success.
How to Be Good at Stress
Dr. Kimberlee Bonura
Stress is bad for your health, right? In fact, stress is a lot like blood pressure: Too high is bad for your health, too low is bad for your health, and the only time you have none is when you’re dead. Research indicates that stress is actually related to having meaning and purpose in your life. In this course, you’ll spend ten days transforming your relationship with stress. Practical exercises will help you build resilience by purposefully challenging yourself through good stress, re-channel anxiety into excitement, and rest and recover effectively. Are you ready to be good at stress?
Learning How to Think Clearly
David Urbansky
Thinking is a tremendously important skill that we require every single day of our lives. We have to think to learn skills, make decisions, form opinions, and come up with new ideas. Despite all this, most of us don’t truly understand thinking or know how to think properly. In this course, you’ll learn which physical and mental factors impact your thinking ability and how you can use these to your advantage to think better. Once you’ve completed this course, you can apply the thinking techniques you’ve learned to get more out of all your future Listenable courses!
How to Read and Retain More
Abasi Latcham
What do Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Oprah Winfrey have in common? They are all billionaires, and they all read—a lot. This course will help you discover the secrets to getting ahead with your reading. Within ten audio lessons, you’ll learn how the pros achieve reading success.
Mental Models: How to Make Better Decisions
John Robin
Everything you think about our world is based on a mental model. Every choice you make is based on the mental models that govern how you think. In this course, you’ll learn about the most important mental models, how you can recognize them in your day-to-day thinking, and how you can take control of your life. From the famous Occam’s Razor to the power of Bayesian Updating, you will emerge from this course with new appreciation of how to solve life’s big problems.
Common Thinking Errors and How to Avoid Them
Paul Sloane
Why do smart people make stupid decisions? We all suffer from cognitive biases – flaws that make our thinking irrational and inaccurate. This course helps you spot and mitigate common faults. It also has some bonus thinking and persuasion tips.
Enhance Your Creativity
K.C. Finn
Writers, artists, dramatists, role players, and game designers: What do they all have in common? An incredibly creative mind, ready to invent, receive, and transform ideas into pieces of art that win awards and become bestsellers and crowd favorites. This course teaches real techniques to prime your brain for powerful creativity. You’ll learn how to remove stress, fear, and negativity from the creative process, as well as how to kickstart your brain into creative thinking with mindfulness, enforcement, and even playtime!
Building Routines and Habits
Jenn Schilling
In this course, you will learn the ins and outs of building sustainable routines and habits. Learn how to develop a framework for success that will help you make positive behavior change in your life. The course begins with an examination of intention and mindset. Then the course dives into how to build and maintain a new routine or habit. The course also covers dealing with setbacks in following a routine or habit, building breaks into your day, and morning and evening routines. After taking this course, you will be able to create new routines and habits that will stick. This course will...
Be a World-Class Listener
Ben Butina, Ph.D.
Have you ever thought about how important listening is? Researchers estimate that you'll spend between 45% and 70% of your waking hours listening to other people. The quality of your life is determined, in large part, by the quality of your relationships, and listening is crucial to building and maintaining those relationships. In this course, you'll learn simple, evidence-based techniques to become a world-class listener—starting today!