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• This Is How To Feel Better And Achieve Your Goals: 4 Secrets From Research

  By Eric Barker| Barking Up the Wrong Tree@ We all reach a point where we feel hopeless. Your inner monologue sounds like a rejected Alanis Morissette lyric and any level of optimism you possessed is now playing varsity level hide and seek. You’re Cinderella’s ugly stepsister in this fairy tale, and those shoes were never meant for you. You could use a little hope. Yeah, the thing people love to tattoo in cursive on their ribcage next to a butterfly. It’s the kind of word that feels like it should come pre-packaged with a glitter pen.

  By Eric Barker · Barking Up the Wrong Tree

  Apr. 13, 2025

• How To Become An Expert At Anything: 5 Scientific Steps To Mastery

  By Eric Barker| Barking Up the Wrong Tree@ Here’s the problem with advice about becoming an expert: it’s almost always junk. It’s not just that the advice itself is bad, it’s that it’s somehow both incredibly vague and aggressively overconfident:“Practice makes perfect!” Oooh, it’s got that motivational poster energy“Embrace failure.” Look, I’ve embraced failure so many times we’re in a common-law marriage. “Just start!” Another winner. Just start. Really?

  By Eric Barker · Barking Up the Wrong Tree

  Mar. 30, 2025

• This Is How To Feel Better And Achieve Your Goals: 4 Secrets From Research

  By Eric Barker| Barking Up the Wrong Tree@ We all reach a point where we feel hopeless. Your inner monologue sounds like a rejected Alanis Morissette lyric and any level of optimism you possessed is now playing varsity level hide and seek. You’re Cinderella’s ugly stepsister in this fairy tale, and those shoes were never meant for you. You could use a little hope. Yeah, the thing people love to tattoo in cursive on their ribcage next to a butterfly. It’s the kind of word that feels like it should come pre-packaged with a glitter pen.

  By Eric Barker · Barking Up the Wrong Tree

  Apr. 13, 2025

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