Advice
Questions
1. What three pieces of advice will you give your children?
2. How good are you at giving advice?
3. Whose advice do you follow more, your parents’ or your friends’?
4. What advice do you have about being successful in love?
5. What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever had?
6. Where do you go to get good advice?
7. What advice do you have for people who want to study English?
8. Would you look for advice online?
Videos
When faced with a big challenge where potential failure seems to lurk at every corner, you’ve probably heard the advice, “Be more confident!” But where does confidence come from, and how can you get more of it? Here
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are three easy tips to boost your confidence.
Lesson by TED-Ed, animation by Kozmonot Animation Studio.
Lesson by TED-Ed, animation by Kozmonot Animation Studio.
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Category: Psychology
Keywords: Advice | Confidence
We asked people of all ages what advice they would give to someone younger than they are.
We asked people of all ages the same question. What’s your biggest regret? Who’s your biggest celebrity
We asked people of all ages the same question. What’s your biggest regret? Who’s your biggest celebrity
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crush? What’s your goal in life? From 5-year-olds to 75-year-olds, take a look at what people of every consecutive age think about their life experience.
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Category: Education & Language | Psychology
Can you imagine what life was like before smartphones and the internet? Or what old people think of tinder and selfies? Well, I decided to find out. I met with residents of a retirement community to learn more about
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their way of life, and if their values differ from ours in this modern digital world.
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Category: Education & Language | Psychology
Keywords: Advice | Modern life
One of the most intimidating things we’re ever called to do is to introduce ourselves to a stranger in a social context. Knowing how to pull this off isn’t a small question of etiquette, it goes right to the heart of knowing how
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to feel we deserve to exist and need not feel crippled by shame.
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Category: Psychology
You need social skills to have a conversation in real life — but they’re quite different from the skills you need to write good dialogue. Educator Nadia Kalman suggests a few “anti-social skills,” like eavesdropping and muttering
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to yourself, that can help you write an effective dialogue for your next story.
Lesson by Nadia Kalman, animation by Enjoyanimation.
Lesson by Nadia Kalman, animation by Enjoyanimation.
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Category: Education & Language
One of the reasons many of us find social encounters difficult is that they force into that particular conversational byway called small-talk – where we have to pay a lot of attention to the weather and the upcoming holidays.
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But what is small talk, why does it exist and how can we learn to navigate it more fruitfully?
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Category: Psychology