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• Why being a fake is bad for you

  25-09-2016 07:00
  
  Authenticity – where we say and do what we truly think – is one of the keys to our wellbeing
  Authenticity is about being true to yourself in each and every moment. Our lives often turn on what seem to be the most trivial of occurrences: a chance meeting, or a single sentence that was or wasn’t said. To navigate life successfully, so you make the best decisions for yourself at any given moment, you need to be authentic – to be able to counter external influences pulling yo
  
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• Are you an extrovert or an introvert? – quiz

  25-09-2016 07:00
  
  Try our personality questionnaire and see what it says about youAre you an extrovert or an introvert? Normally a psychologist who wanted to find out would give you a questionnaire with questions of the Do-you-always-find-yourself-in-the-kitchen-at-parties? variety. But a recent study of 1,000 people suggests a more interesting, if less intuitive, way to answer this age-old question. So, on a scale of 0 (particularly unhappy) to 10 (particularly happy) – with 5 representing your typical bas
  
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