Kitty Corner: 19 books

It is a well-known fact that psychology studies not only separate mental processes, their characteristics and patterns, but also psychological aspects of a person as a particular owner of these processes. Personality means a special person characterized by the certain individual physical and...

Each of us, among other things, has been taking a poll among friends and acquaintances, aiming to hear an answer to the question, ‘What do you plan? What do you want in your life?’ Typically, the answers received were equivocal. As a result, you took this information into consideration, when you...

As soon as we quit our comfort zone, we destroy some valuable resource, which was feeding our body and psyche. And to stay alive, we need to start growing a new comfort zone, from scratch. You can’t fulfill your abilities while your mental health is being sapped – a chronic stress pushed...

How often do you imagine yourself as a person who achieved perfection? Have you formed in your mind an image of yourself, healthy and beautiful, professionally developed, having wonderful relations with close people and the surrounding world? To be honest, I haven’t heard a better answer...

**Stop spending time with wrong people. **Life is too short to spend it with people squeezing all the juice out of you. If someone wants you to be present in his life, he will take care of your comfort. You won't have to fight for a place by this person. Don't cling to people who permanently decrease...

**“Positive self-esteem is the centerpiece of a healthy personality. This book offers us a valuable storehouse of tactics and strategies for constructing—or renovating—the foundation of our self-esteem.” **Martin Luther King The desire of recognition and fear of rejection are crafty...

An egoist is a lonely man incapable to love. And even if someone loves him, the egoist can’t enjoy this gift of destiny, he can only psychologically mock at the poor person who was unlucky to "fall for a tool." Everyone in close contact with the egotist is unhappy, and the most miserable...

The primary measure that is the first one, for comparing the stages of personality development, is the perception refinement. The more beautiful the understanding, the more attractive shades, and facets the person can see in any event. The rougher the perception, the less picky is this person. What...

Provocative manipulation is the unique tool. If you don’t notice the provoker’s behavior in time, you can quickly become a victim of his tricks. Every person has one odd habit that, on the one hand, helps us to survive (being an evolutionary mechanism, after all), and on the other, makes us defenseless...

The science-based fact is that a person gets acquainted with on average of 4,000 people during a lifetime. This does not mean, however, that he or she knows well everyone, whom he/she has ever seen, worked or studied with, or just said hello. The question “How to know what a person is?” is currently...

Feel, observe, just stop for a second and look around... Maybe we're not villains; we just act based on some negative stereotypes: we are used to envying someone, to criticize someone and do not consider that we do something wrong. Just think, we blame others – is there anything special about it?...

***‘Stop living as if you have 500 years left.” ***Bill Gates Your reality is not an objective reality. Have you ever had a thought which you first believed, but later you understood that it was just a fable? Our minds sometimes lie to us. They tell us that the person doesn’t respond...

Do you want to know how to find your calling in life? The answer is easy: you have to get acquainted with yourself. You don’t know yourself at all! This book motivates and helps to get rid of a fear of social disapproval and misunderstanding. Why we so often do not act as we want, just because...

Researchers from Yale University say that, in fact, people who are not afraid of old age and who look at aging as at something natural, age and die later than others. In scientists' opinion, good humor can extend human life by 7 and even more years. And this applies even to people whose health is...