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Elegant & curated articles by Omar M Almahmoud, selected from his daily writings and reading list in life, business and self improvement. All republished articles are owned by their original authors. The articles are reblogged here under Fair Use for educational and non commercial purposes.

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Six Verbs That Make You Sound Weak (No Matter Your Job Title)

Your job title isn’t the only thing that determines how influential you are. Every word you use at work expresses your personal brand, from your confidence and authority to your depth of knowledge. And it’s verbs–those action words that should be the engine of a sentence–that most often trip us up. advertisement advertisement Overusing certain weak verbs can make you sound weaker, too. They can undercut your ability to inspire others

Declutter Your Life. Declutter Your Mind. – Darius Foroux

5 min read Over the past three years, I’ve moved house close to a dozen times. Most people experience moving house as a stressful event. Initially, I was no different. But I’ve learned to love it for one reason: It forced me to think about my possessions. Too much stuff makes moving and living complex. And I like the opposite. When I moved to London from The Netherlands in 2014,

The False Consensus Effect: Why People Assume that Everyone Agrees with Them – Effectiviology

The false-consensus effect is a cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate the degree to which their beliefs, values, characteristics, and behaviors are shared by others. Essentially, this means that the false consensus effect leads people to assume that others think and act in the same way that they do, even when that isn’t the case. For example, the false consensus effect could cause extremists to incorrectly assume that the majority of the