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Many companies today engage in personal and employee development. This helps give them a competitive edge in the business world and it ensures that their employees handle themselves in a professional manner at all times. It is important that employees show that they are empathetic to the needs of their peers and customers, are self-aware, [...]

Is mind mapping a serious business tool? Anthony Landale reports on a technique that is easy to use across a range of business requirements, challenges and tasks.

The nature of perception itself depends on one’s view of the world. Some people believe in a theory known as strong direct realism, which holds that our perceptions are generally accurate. The broad representative theory, in contrast, teaches that what we see and hear in the physical world is only understood through a filter consisting [...]

This philosophical question has been debated by some of the world’s greatest thinkers. Jean Paul Sartre, for example, argued that an individual’s personal development could be limited by other people as they act in ways that interfere with a learner’s ability to absorb and retain information. This scenario, however, only suggests that humans may fail [...]