Why do some leaders thrive while others struggle? The answers might surprise you.
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The Psychology of Success, Leading Your Company Article - Inc. Article | Inc.com - 0 views
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Today's Editor's Picks Tech Bubble? Why It’s Different This Time What Sleep Deprivation Is Doing to You What a 9-Year-Old Can Teach You About Selling Shaking Up Commercial Real Estate How to Pitch a CEO: 4 Tips They're hype
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rconfident risk-takers
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big decisions
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often fail
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to see the big picture.
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Interpersonal
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They're charismatic visionaries who don't play well with others
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That's the stereotype of successful entrepreneurs.
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on the fly but
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They make
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Myth: They thrive on risk
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the way they respond to stress
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They score in the 83rd percentile on what TAIS calls "performance under pressure.
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5% higher than CEOs in general
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Myth: They're control freaks
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Myth: They're lousy at strategy
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Myth: They're bullies
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enjoy facing adversity
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manage and mitigate their risk.
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91st percentile on their need to control things
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ocus over time
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essentially, willingness to sacrifice anything necessary to achieve a goal
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quick on their feet
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awareness
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analysi
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CEOs score higher than 82% of the population on their ability to express support and encouragement
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Here is an article (A research is included) on how the psychology of success is present in the business world. How do successful entrepreneurs differentiate themselves from others? The article speaks solely from a business standpoint.
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What Success Does for the Brain - 1 views
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the brain appears to react more to success than failure, supporting previous evidence that we learn more from a positive outcome than a negative one.
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Monkeys
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family pets respond more to reward than punishment
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the prefrontal cortex and the striatum—“keep track of recent successes and failures for many seconds, long enough for it to play a role in guiding the learning the next time an opportunity to learn comes up
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monkeys’ brains are similar enough to humans
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neural processing in the brain improves after a recent success and doesn't improve much after a recent failure
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[T]he neurons themselves retained a memory of the correct action, paving the way for continued success
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a study by psychology professor Mario Liotti. Liotti and his team examined magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the brains of swimmers who failed to qualify for the 2004 Olympic team. The scans were recorded while the swimmers watched videos of their failed qualifying races. Liotti “found that a region of the brain that plans future actions (the pre-motor cortex) appeared inhibited when the elite athletes saw themselves “lose,”
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But endorphins, which are “stimulated by exercise alone and heightened when accompanied by experiences like winning or a spectacular performance,” create “ephemeral” reactions in the brain
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What success does to our brain. - 0 views
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Explains in depth how our brains are affected by success and what occurs on a anatomical and psychological level. WEBSITE IS TRUTH WORTHY: I found it with sweet search and each article is given revision and meticulous research.
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The Psychology of Success - 0 views
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This a great website with tons of information! The information quite literally covers everything. Best of all, the information is provided to us by an assistant professor Bakari Akil who has a Ph.D. in communications and is author of many educational books.
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Goals are key.
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Highly successful people are intensely goal-oriented.
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that’s why having a goal toward which to work is so very important. It gives our minds a focus and our lives direction. When we concentrate our thinking it’s like taking a river that’s twisting and turning and meandering all over the countryside and putting it into a straight, smooth channel.
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Sometimes having a big goal can seem overwhelming. By setting smaller goals, it makes it more realistic.
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the ability to get yourself to take action.
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This website is great because it explains how people achieve and are successful and what characteristics their brain must possess.
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The Psychology Of Success - Forbes.com - 0 views
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To psychologists, their stories raise fascinating questions. In what ways are the two men, born generations apart and raised in completely different surroundings, alike? More importantly, what makes them different from the great majority of people who never started a business, watched it succeed and become incredibly rich?
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The venture capitalists of the future may use psychological profiles to pick entrepreneurs who are more likely to create winning companies.
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they simply did not feel risk, or weigh consequences, in the same way as other people.
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Which part of the brain controls risk-taking? The frontal lobe deals with reasoning so is it fair to say that this part of their brain is adapted differently?
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entrepreneurs are risk takers
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Robert Baron, a psychologist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has shown that entrepreneurs are more successful when they are persuasive and have strong social skills--in other words, that being a charismatic salesman is a big help.
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For instance, entrepreneurs and normal people seem to worry equally about financial autonomy and/or a feeling of being motivated in their jobs.
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They have trouble imagining failure, and they don't care what you think.
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Here is a site that seeks to explain the questions I sometimes ask myself. It further proves that the topic of success is in fact discussed by psychologist who seek answers.
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