Overcoming Social Anxiety
You are all set to host a presentation. Your palms are clammy, your heart racing, and your throat parched. As you approach the presentation area, your mind begins to get fuzzy. You mumble something and then go completely blank. As you stand there staring blankly at a room full of people, you realize what a [...]
Reinventing Yourself
With everything from your wardrobe to your workplace getting a facelift, there is little reason why you should not consider tweaking up your ‘self’ too. Imagine waking up one morning and being the person you always wanted to be and having the life you always wanted to have. A complete makeover may not be possible, [...]
How To Get Respect
As a child, you were perhaps taught that respect is purely a give-and-take policy. However, to tell you the truth, respect is never given, it’s earned! It takes years to build respect, just like your reputation. Simply put, respect is admiration or esteem that follows as a result of a good deed, an impressive designation, [...]
Improving Reading Comprehension
Reading is all about getting information. The key aspect of improved reading comprehension is not about moving your eyes across a page; it is also about producing a mental framework, which helps you to process expressions and thoughts. It is not about the number of words you read, but the amount of information you get [...]
How To Convince Others
Convincing is a subtle art and not everyone is naturally endowed with this soft skill. If you have successfully convinced someone to go on a diet, take up a hobby, or pursue a non-conformal career, then you certainly have a genius hidden somewhere within you. The ability to make others believe is no mean feat, [...]
How To Be Creative
Although people make it look like a big deal, creativity isn’t really an elusive trait. In fact, there is no one man on this planet who doesn’t have a creative bone in his body. Agreed, some people appear to be more creative than normal mortals are. However, that doesn’t mean that you can’t be creative [...]
Developing Critical Thinking Skills
Bernard Baruch, the famous American financier, once wittily remarked, “Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.” This is the wonder of critical thinking. No high school, college, or graduate school can give you a degree or a diploma in critical thinking, as this is not something that you learn [...]
Overcoming Fear Of Rejection
Have you had instances where your jaws locked and knees wobbled and you felt, “It’s better not to try rather than face rejection?” Fear of rejection makes the strongest and bravest of people freeze in their tracks. The world comprises of diverse people, each bearing different opinions, thoughts and ideas. Your views need not tally [...]
How To Talk Loud
Do you often talk in a soft and muffled voice? Have you ever been told by people to speak up or repeat yourself often? Such situations can be quite embarrassing though there are chances that you already know how to talk without faltering. You might have had a phone conversation in which the connection was [...]
Qualities Of A Hero
The oxford English dictionary defines a hero as “a person, typically a man, who is admired for his courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.” Both the history of the mankind and the world literature are rife with characters who have exhibited the virtues mentioned in the definition, in fact many more and have been admired, [...]
