Eric Barker's Blog, page 11
February 20, 2022
How To Be Resilient: 5 Steps To Success When Life Gets Hard
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Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here.
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We always hear one thing about stress: it’s bad. I haven’t checked recently but I think that’s in the Constitution. Fortunately, stress is not that simple.
Researchers asked 30,000 adults how much stress they felt in the past year – and whether or not they thought stress was a negative. Eight years later the scientists circl...
February 6, 2022
This Is How To Overcome Regret: 5 Secrets From Research
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Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here.
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There’s a study you may have heard about. Researchers showed subjects videos of Olympic athletes standing on the podium being awarded their medals. The subjects didn’t see the actual competition, and they didn’t know who got gold, silver or bronze. They just saw the athletes’ faces — and had to evaluate who looked the happie...
January 23, 2022
This Is How To Have Emotionally Intelligent Relationships: 4 Secrets From Research
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Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here.
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We all have social situations where we consistently stumble. At certain times, or in certain contexts, often while under stress — we blow it. And we just don’t know why. We lash out, cling, blame, or withdraw and it hurts our relationships.
We try to be better… but then it happens again. And again. If it happens too often pe...
January 9, 2022
This Is The #1 Ritual You Need To Do Every Day
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Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here.
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“Third year of the pandemic” used to be a phrase reserved for science fiction novels.
Maddeningly, COVID may be going from historical “event” to “era.” I don’t blame you if your optimism has stretch marks and you’re feeling phantom pain where your hope used to be. We’re all wishing life would go back to precedented times.
So...
June 11, 2017
This Is How To Be Productive: 4 Secrets From The Stoics
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Before we commence with the festivities, I just wanted to let you know my first book is now a Wall Street Journal bestseller! To check it out, click here.
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Everybody would like to get more of the right things done. But how does Stoicism fit into all of this?
The word “productivity” seems new and sleek and shiny. And Stoicism is old. Really old. Like older-than-grandpa-old.
I have news for you: Facebook and email may be recent but people have always wasted time. And smart people have...
June 4, 2017
This Is How To Be More Self-Aware: 5 Secrets From Research
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Before we commence with the festivities, I just wanted to let you know my first book is now a Wall Street Journal bestseller! To check it out, click here.
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You probably know more than a few people who are just clueless about themselves.
They make the same errors over and over but never seem to notice. They think they’re great at stuff that, frankly, they’re terrible at. But that’s not the real problem…
The real problem is you’re one of them too. Hey, so am I. Humans just aren’t terrib...
May 28, 2017
This Is How To Kill Bad Habits With Mindfulness
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Before we commence with the festivities, I just wanted to let you know my first book is now a Wall Street Journal bestseller! To check it out, click here.
***We all struggle with bad habits. Resisting them is hard. Changing them feels impossible.
Now there are plenty of tricks from standard psychology on how to deal with bad habits. But what if there was a way that really helped you understand yourself better? Something that wasn’t just a “lifehack”, but actually led to a fuller way of...
May 21, 2017
How To Avoid Burnout: 3 Secrets From Research
Ever wake up exhausted and just dread going to work? Do you feel like that most days? Every day?
And we’ve all seen others who have suffered the death spiral of burnout and become shambling zombies at the office. They’re not “The Walking Dead”, they’re “The Working Dead.”
Well, maybe you’re just tired. But tired isn’t burnout. Tired is tired. Get more sleep and you’re not tired anymore. So what does real burnout feel like?
From The Truth About Burnout: How Organizations Cause Personal Stress...
May 16, 2017
The “Barking Up The Wrong Tree” Book Is Now Available!
It’s finally here!
My book, Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong, is *now available* for purchase at:
Amazon Barnes and Noble iBooks Google PlayYes, it’s a book. Yes, they still make those. You forgot what they are? It’s kinda like a blog post but they’re loaded with far more awesome info and they utilize a breathtaking new technology that means you never have to plug it in. (Only downside is you have to give som...
