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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!
70 Things Your 70-Year-Old Self Wants You to Know
MindCups
The legendary Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw, famously said that "youth is wasted on the young". And you can bet that he didn't reach this sacred wisdom until the very day that his own hair went grey, and the deep wrinkles started to set in on his face. In this course, you'll save yourself from a lifetime of regret, by learning the 70 most important lessons that the older version of you is desperate for you to know today. We'll explore 7 key areas that need your attention: Health, People, Love, Wealth, Living, Warnings, and Self. So take this chance and listen to this course - it...
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.
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?
Basics of Stoic Philosophy and Practice
Gregory Sadler
Ancient Stoic philosophy and practices provide a coherent path to a happier and more productive life. This course introduces you to the key Stoic authors, their most important ideas and insights, and useful techniques and practices.
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.
10 Habits of Successful People
Astrid Haszprunarova
In our modern times, we are often placed in front of the question of what makes successful people successful? Is it luck or the number of opportunities that these people had in life? The truth is that we're all presented with a number of opportunities for successes on an almost daily basis, and what makes the difference is how we approach them. In this course, you will learn the habits that separate people from those who will be able to succeed and repeat their success from those who will not. This course will help you to perfect your mindset and incorporate the right habits on your path,...
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!
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 Improve Your Emotional Intelligence
Joseph Champion and Marcus Turner
How well do you interact with family, friends, and co-workers? Have you ever wondered why you or others have such a hard time communicating? Believe it or not, Emotional Intelligence (EQ) plays a major role in our everyday life. In this course, we breakdown Emotional Intelligence to its core and explore how you can develop your Emotional Intelligence to enhance your life. We will teach you how to take your negative emotions and turn them into something beneficial. We'll also share stories from our own experience that will help you on your journey. Let's dive in!