Becoming vs Achieving: the Superiority of Identity-based New Year’s Resolutions
Becoming vs Achieving: the Superiority of Identity-based New Year’s Resolutions Here are some stories of people and their New Year’s Resolutions: Mary Mary has gained 10 kgs in the last year. Her New Year’s resolution is to lose all those extra kilos within the year....
Why people don’t learn enough from the successful
Why people don’t learn enough from the successful In the previous post, I integrated ideas coming from the literature on Personal Development with ideas coming from Cultural Evolutionary Theory. The main conclusion from that post was the following: people...
Learning From the Successful: Personal Development vs Cultural Evolution
Learning From the Successful: Personal Development vs Cultural Evolution Some of the most popular books on Personal Development and Cultural Evolution In a previous post, I described different strategies to select your learning sources. One of these was the strategy...
Living Better with Less Technology: A Self-experiment
Living Better with Less Technology: A Self-experiment In a previous post, I described my experience with the diffusion of mobile phones and the internet and my past struggles with having a healthy relationship with these technologies. I believed that the way I was...
FREE FOR YOU: ONE-ON-ONE COACHING SESSIONS
FREE FOR YOU: ONE-ON-ONE COACHING SESSIONS To celebrate the launching of The Adventure of Success, I am offering completely free 50 one-on-one coaching sessions 25 face-to-face in Plymouth (UK) 25 online via Skype I am offering help with any of the following topics....
The Diffusion of Mobile Phones and the Internet: A Personal Perspective
The Diffusion of Mobile Phones and the Internet: A Personal Perspective This post is the first of a series of posts in which I am going to address some of the problems of smartphones, social media, and the internet. Specifically, I am interested in discussing how...
The Compound Effect of Learning a New Skill
The Compound Effect of Learning a New Skill Group learning to dance bachata When we are learning a new skill, we usually expect that our results are going to be a linear function of the time we invest and that our progress is going to be quite fast. In this post, I...
Why Fear-setting is More Important than Goal-setting
Why Fear-setting is More Important than Goal-setting Tim Ferris’ book, The 4-Hour Work Week, has been enormously influential to me. I still remember the sensations I experienced when I was reading it. It was a very sunny day. I was lying down on a sandy beach in...
Social Learning: How to Select Your Learning Sources
Social Learning: How to Select Your Learning Sources Social learning means learning from the actions and advice of others. It has the advantage of taking less time and effort than learning from the results of one’s own actions. There are many things you could learn...
Ángel V. Jiménez
I'm a researcher in psychology. On this website, I write about ways to improve in the most important areas of our lives: healthy, time-management, finances, social relationships, career development, and personal development.
