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The Assistant Room: Elevating Assistants Worldwide with 2025 Expansion Plans

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The Assistant Room, the premier global platform for career support and growth in the Personal and Executive Assistant industry, is thrilled to announce its ambitious […] The post The Assistant Room: Elevating Assistants Worldwide with 2025 Expansion Plans first appeared on The Assistant Room.

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DISC Activities For Team Building: Fun And Engaging Ways to Boost Teamwork

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Your business could employ an amazing cohort of individually motivated and talented A-players. But, if they cant take the steps necessary to come together and work as a team, they wont be able to realize the highest levels of success. A Deloitte study found that employees work 15% faster and do 73% better when collaborating, while research conducted by Wiley shows that most teams suffer from and arent able to achieve due to a critical interpersonal skills gap, which leads to a lack of trust, com

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Modern Psychology and Its Colonial Legacy

Mad in America

I recently came across a post on an ADHD campaign in a village in India. It involved the administration of psychological tests to the kids in the village to diagnose them with ADHD. The intention of this exercise, to spread mental health awareness and provide access to resources (diagnosis, testing, and possibly medication) to this village, requires several foundational assumptionsthat our modern psychological methods are advanced, that traditional communities are primitive in their way of handl

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A neurologist explains how these tech habits can optimize brain health and happiness

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Richard Cytowic is a neurologist, neuropsychologist, and textbook writer. He specializes in metacognition. He is a professor of Neurology at George Washington University. His New York Times Magazine cover story about the Presidential Press Secretary James Brady received a 1982 Pulitzer Prize nomination. Human brains are products of the Stone Age, and the sensory overload of Digital Age life threatens the natural, optimal functioning of that fundamental biology.

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Why Men Don’t Like Going to Therapy

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Where do you turn when life gets to be too much? For some men, therapy is a relief. For others, its not even an option. A November survey of 2,000 American men from Talker Research , on behalf of Talk Space, analyzed male friendship and mental health. Researchers found that 58% of men had never been to therapy, and 57% said they werent open to attending at any point in the future.

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Make 2025 your best financial year ever (and have fun doing it)

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Most New Years resolutions seem to be about “ shoulding ” on yourself. Starting a new year inspires us to cut out sugar, exercise daily , and finally pay off that credit card debtnone of which sounds like a good time, or it wouldnt be so hard to get started on these goals. In fact, 88% of people who set New Years resolutions have given them up before January 15.

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