Month: January 2017

Mindset

The $549 Million Dust Pile

January 9, 2017 Galel Fajardo 1

Americans love spending money on self-help products. According to an article in the Boston Globe, Americans spend an average of $549 million on self-help books a year. If I had to guess, most of those books are never finished. Many are probably sitting under a layer of dust on a […]

Visualization
Performance Psychology

Visualizing Success: Legit or Self-Help Guru Nonsense?

January 2, 2017 Galel Fajardo 2

One of the books that bothered me over the last decade was “The Secret,” which implied that by simply focusing your energy on something, you can attain it. Oprah made this book popular by saying that it was one of her secrets to success. Here’s what Oprah left out: She […]