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 Experts say that a person's personality undergoes massive transformation during the first years of marriage.  Researchers studied 169 newlywed heterosexual couples for 18 months to detect trends in their personality change after marriage. In the study, published in Developmental Psychology, the team observed five personality changes among married couples: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Commitment to marriage has a positive effect on the wives’ emotional stability, as data showed that wives became less anxious, depressed, and angry after marriage. On the other hand, husbands become more conscientious, which means they become more dependable and responsible in marriage. Yet, in the study, both partners were found to be less open as time went on. This change reflects their acceptance of the routines of marriage. In short, people fall into a pattern — one that is hard to modify or change. Ultimately, the study showed that couples genera...

     TOTAL SOLAR eclipses have awed people since time out of mind. The first record of one, preserved on a clay tablet found at Ugarit, now in Syria, is believed from its age and location to describe either an eclipse that happened in 1375BC or one in 1223BC. Legendary explanations for eclipses include the Sun being eaten by dogs, frogs or dragons. The reality is more prosaic. Eclipses are caused by the Moon moving between Sun and Earth in a way that casts a shadow on part of Earth’s surface. Why are total ones, like the one coming on April 8th, so rare?    Solar eclipses are a special case of phenomena called transits and occultations, in which an intervening heavenly body stops light from a star reaching an observer. If the obscuring orb appears smaller in the sky than the star, the result is called a transit and looks like a dark spot crossing the star’s surface (in the solar system Mercury and Venus transit the Sun, from Earth’s point of view, from time to t...

  1. Someone makes 10x more than you do in a 9-5 job because they have more "leverage" with their work. 2. Distraction is the greatest killer of success. It stunts and destroys your brain. 3. You shouldn't take advice from people who are not where you want to be in life. 4. No one is coming to save your problems. Your life's 100% your responsibility. 5. You don't need 100 self-help books, all you need is action and self discipline. 6. Unless you went to college to learn a specific skill (ie. doctor, engineer, lawyer), you can make more money in the next 90 days just learning sales. 7. No one cares about you. So stop being shy, go out and create your chances. 8. If you find someone smarter than you, work with them, don't compete. 9. Smoking has 0 benefit in your life. This habit will only slow your thinking and lower your focus. 10. Comfort is the worst addiction and cheap ticket to depression. 11. Don't tell people more than they need to know, respect your...

  Kind Snacks founder Daniel Lubetzky on ABC’s “Shark Tank.” Christopher Willard | Disney General Entertainment Content | Getty Images Daniel Lubetzky, billionaire founder of Kind Snacks, attributes his success to a simple decision: surrounding himself with people who feel comfortable giving him honest, raw feedback. Nobody can be a perfect leader, Lubetzky says. In his case, he often gets things wrong, and can be impulsive and easily blinded by passion — but his friends and colleagues call him out when he’s about to make a mistake, he adds. “If you don’t surround yourself with those people, then it is so much harder to [achieve success] because you can go in to ‘I’m amazing’ mode, and not realize when you are screwing up,” Lubetzky tells CNBC Make It. Lubetzky founded Kind Snacks in 2004, initially  running it on a shoestring budget  before accepting  roughly $16 million of outside funding  in 2008. Just over a decade later, Kind was acquired by food giant Mars...

 The two kinds of people who never get ahead or those who do only what they are told and those who are not doing what they are told. It's hard to say which would be more discouraging: drifting from job to job because you're always the first to be laid off, or laboring in monotonous obscurity at the same job. The first results from not doing what you were told to do, the second from doing only what you were told to do. You can get by for a time for with either approach, but you will never get ahead. Personal initiative is more important in today's enlightened, high-tech workplace than it was during the industrial age, when the ability to follow orders was a critical skill. As technology makes many supervisory functions obsolete, everyone of us is expected to do more with less, determine what needs to be done, and do it. Don't wait to be told. Know your company and your job so well that when you can anticipate what needs to be done, then do it.

    Russia’s opposition has lost a crucial leader but gained a martyr       “IF IT HAPPENED, if they decided to kill me, it means that we are unbelievably strong at that moment,” Alexei Navalny once told an interviewer, on one of the many occasions he was asked about being assassinated. The answer was vintage Navalny: ever hopeful in the face of existential terror. But now that it has happened, now that Mr Navalny has been pronounced dead in an Arctic prison, it is Vladimir Putin, his longtime nemesis, who appears all too strong.    Throughout more than two decades in power, Mr Putin has waged a war against his opponents at home. Mr Navalny’s death on February 16th leaves the embattled Russian opposition without its most effective and charismatic leader in a generation. The tide also appears to be turning in Mr Putin’s favour in his war abroad against Ukraine. Early on February 17th Oleksandr Syrsky, the new commander of Ukraine’s armed force...

 BY AGE 40  YOU SHOULD BE SMART ENOUGH TO REALIZE THIS: 1. Someone makes 10x more than you do in a 9-5 job because they have more "leverage" with their work. 2. Distraction is the greatest killer of success. It stunts and destroys your brain. 3. You shouldn't take advice from people who are not where you want to be in life. 4. No one is coming to save your problems. Your life's 100% your responsibility. 5. You don't need 100 self-help books, all you need is action and self discipline. 6. Unless you went to college to learn a specific skill (ie. doctor, engineer, lawyer), you can make more money in the next 90 days just learning sales. 7. No one cares about you. So stop being shy, go out and create your chances. 8. If you find someone smarter than you, work with them, don't compete. 9. Smoking has 0 benefit in your life. This habit will only slow your thinking and lower your focus. 10. Comfort is the worst addiction and cheap ticket to depression. 11. Don't...

  Mark Cuban says this is the No. 1 biggest time waster: ‘It kills so much time' That meeting could have been an email, says Mark Cuban. The billionaire investor, Dallas Mavericks owner, "Shark Tank" personality, author and father of three doesn't have much time to waste. And he thinks meetings are the number one workplace habit killing people's productivity and eating away at their time. In a conversation  with bestselling author Chris Voss on the interactive streaming platform Fireside, which Cuban co-founded, he said that people "over-meet and over-call." "It kills so much time," he added. Cuban has been vocal about his commitment to  having power over his own time  — he says it's partly what drove him to want to become successful. To him, meetings are an obstacle to controlling his own schedule. His  daily routine  starts with a 6:30 a.m. wake-up where he responds to a morning round of emails, eats breakfast and works out before diving ...

  9 red flags that indicate a friend isn't as loyal as they make out to be February 3, 2024, 5:00 am Trust and loyalty are the pillars of any strong friendship, but sometimes it isn’t all too easy to tell the good friends from the bad. Finding out that your friends aren’t all too loyal can be a tough pill to swallow, especially if you’ve invested time and care into said person. But I’ll tell you now – spotting these red flags can save you a lot of heartache in the long run, as it prevents you from investing time in a one-sided friendship… (Or someone who is going to stab you in the back not too far down the line). In this article, we’re going to cover the 9 red flags you should definitely be keeping an eye out for that indicate your friend isn’t as trustworthy as you think.  An insight might just save your friendship – or help you move on from it. 1) They’re not there when you need them Life is full of ups and downs, and it’s our friends and loved ones who we turn to in times ...

  41-year-old CEO worth $320 million: This piece of childhood advice helped me climb the career ladder Emma Grede speaks onstage during the Vonversation: Liberty and Denim For All panel at Fortune MPW Next Gen 2016 on November 29, 2016 in Dana Point, California. Joe Scarnici | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Emma Grede  didn’t grow up near Silicon Valley tech founders or Manhattan financiers. Raised by a single mom in East London, Grede didn’t know “anyone that owned their own business,” she recently told  Jay Shetty , a former monk turned life coach and author, on  his podcast “On Purpose.” Today, Grede is the CEO and co-founder of apparel company Good American, and a founding member and chief product officer of shapewear brand SKIMS. She’s built relationships along the way: Her business partners for those companies are Khloé Kardashian and  Kim Kardashian , respectively. But she credits a large part of her success to advice her mother gave her when s...

  Warren Buffett Says Your Overall Happiness in Life Really Comes Down to 4 Simple Words Sep 16, 2022 Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett  gave one of his best  lectures  to students at the University of Florida's school of business over two decades ago. As it happened, one of the MBA students popped Buffett a question, asking the billionaire what he would do to live a happier life if he could start all over again. Buffett's  response? He's held an enduring level of happiness for decades, but he was quick to turn the focus back on the students by urging them to make better choices around career goals, finances, health, and relationships. "The way to do it is to play out the game and do something you enjoy all your life," he said. "Be associated with people you like. I only work with people I like. If I could make $100 million with a guy who causes my stomach to churn, I'd say no." Buffett's happiness lesson in four words The biggest lesson on happ...

  How to spot red flags of a stressful job before you even take it Published Wed, Nov 22 202311:17 AM EST Source: Envato Elements Work can cause a great  deal of stress . More than half, 57%, of workers report experiencing the impacts of work-related stress such as emotional exhaustion, low motivation and a desire to quit, according to the American Psychological Association’s  2023 Work in America Survey . Whether or not a job ends up being stressful can be the result of a series of factors. A  toxic boss , an overwhelming workload and a lack of flexibility can all play into your experience. And, critically, stress can be subjective. “What’s best for [you] might not be for someone else,” says Vicki Salemi, career coach at  Monster . That being the case, “it’s important to do your own research before accepting any job opportunity to make sure a particular role is the right fit for  you ,” says LinkedIn career expert  Andrew McCaskill . Here’s how. Make ...

  CEO shares his No. 1 tip for making career moves: Trust your gut over people's advice Ryan Roslansky, chief executive officer for LinkedIn Corp., speaks during a Bloomberg Technology television interview in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, July 28, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Making career decisions can be hard. Deciding between your intuition and the advice you get from people you trust can be harder. For anyone in such a situation, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky has some advice. “Be able to balance a lot of different people’s opinions, but at the end of the day, you have to have your own conviction deep down and make decisions for yourself,” Roslansky told LinkedIn editor-in-chief Dan Roth during a recent podcast episode of “ The Path .” “You have to know what’s right, you have to care about what’s right, to be passionate about what’s right,” Roslansky added. “And if you’re going to put yourself out there and decide to dive into the crowd, it s...

  Billionaire Daniel Lubetzky shares his No. 1 tip for success: Most people 'are just too afraid to' do it Kind Snacks founder Daniel Lubetzky on ABC’s “Shark Tank.” Christopher Willard | Disney General Entertainment Content | Getty Images Daniel Lubetzky, billionaire founder of Kind Snacks, attributes his success to a simple decision: surrounding himself with people who feel comfortable giving him honest, raw feedback. Nobody can be a perfect leader, Lubetzky says. In his case, he often gets things wrong, and can be impulsive and easily blinded by passion — but his friends and colleagues call him out when he’s about to make a mistake, he adds. “If you don’t surround yourself with those people, then it is so much harder to [achieve success] because you can go in to ‘I’m amazing’ mode, and not realize when you are screwing up,” Lubetzky tells CNBC Make It. Lubetzky founded Kind Snacks in 2004, initially  running it on a shoestring budget  before accepting  roughly $16...