5 Tips for a Positive Mental Attitude. Part 4 of 5: Social Environment

This entry is part of a series, 5 Tips for a Positive Mental Attitude» Welcome to part 4 of our first multi-video series, 5 tips for a positive mental attitude. We will be releasing one video a day from Monday to Friday this week – each video will be covering a tip to help [...]

5 Tips for a Positive Mental Attitude. Part 2 of 5: Perspective

This entry is part of a series, 5 Tips for a Positive Mental Attitude» Welcome to part 2 of our first multi-video series, 5 tips for a positive mental attitude. We will be releasing one video a day from Monday to Friday this week – each video will be covering a tip to help [...]

5 Tips for a Positive Mental Attitude. Part 1 of 5: Healthy Living

This entry is part of a series, 5 Tips for a Positive Mental Attitude» Welcome to part 1 of our first multi-video series, 5 tips for a positive mental attitude. We will be releasing one video a day from Monday to Friday this week – each video will be covering a tip to help [...]

Optimistic people live longer – now officially including women!

We talk loads about the importance of positivity and optimism for having a happy and successful life here at Cognicology.com. There is a lot of evidence that suggests that optimists are more successful in what they achieve – be it pursuits in business, relationships or family concerns. It turns out that there has been recent [...]

Maintaining long-term same gender friendships

It has been a technological battle getting this video to you guys today – we’ve had two computers breakdown and an internet connection fail on us, but Alborz was so adamant we get this video out that he travelled over 10km and battled with corporate firewalls to get this video up and running!
In this video, [...]

Giving positive and constructive criticism

The aim of giving criticism is generally to improve the performance or output of an individual, by giving feedback on their current progress.
Anybody who has been in the position of having to correct or give feedback to another will know this: Giving criticism sucks. Receiving criticism sucks even more. I don’t know about you, but [...]

Book Review: Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman

Optimism is the key ingredient to living a happy and successful life. Or at least, so Martin Seligman says. This message is the ever-present ideal underlying the content of his book entitled Learned Optimism. In this book, Seligman explores the role that positivity and optimism play in modern day psychology as well as the implications [...]

Landmark Forum Review

I am joining a cult. My mind kept saying, Cult, Cult, Cult, Cult. Yes, okay so what if it’s a cult, does it hurt to go and see what they do for three days?
A friend of a friend of mine (lets call him Bob) told me ever so briefly that I should do the Landmark [...]

The importance of inspirational material for success

There is a lot of inspirational material available out there in the big wide world. Be it in the form of a book, a DVD (or video for the old-school) or a seminar, there is definitely a lot of it. Many people think of all inspirational material to be a bit of a sham – [...]

Creating positive thought habits

If you’re new to the whole positive thinking process, you might be wondering how you can go about eliminating negative thought patterns and creating positive ones. In which case you will find this article useful.
Before we start though, let’s go through and analyse our thoughts for the day. Most of us get up in the [...]

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