LIFESTYLE

Why you need more emotional intelligence

When emotional intelligence first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70% of the time. This anomaly threw a massive wrench into what many people had always assumed was the sole source of success—IQ. Decades of research now point to emotional intelligence as ...

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Anastasia’s tortuous journey to academic excellence; physically challenged but intellectually endowed

Can you imagine struggling to climb a staircase every day — fall off, sometimes, due to physical disability — to attend lectures? That’s the story of 23-year-old Anastasia Agyenim Boateng who defied the odds, learning to earn a First Class Honours with an average of 72.5 in Sociology. She is among graduating students at the 51st congregation of Kwame Nkrumah ...

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China is building first ‘forest city’ of 40,000 trees to fight air pollution

In the wake of President Trump’s decision to remove America from the Paris Climate agreement, you’d be forgiven for feeling a little negative about the future of the planet.   With reports of huge cracks appearing in the Antarctic ice, fears that preventing the two degree heating of the planet might be a pipe dream, and the world’s food supplies at risk – everything looks ...

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Lifestyle: Why men simply love breasts so much

Why do men devote so much headspace to those big, bulbous bags of fat drooping from women’s chests? Scientists have never satisfactorily explained men’s curious breast fixation, but theorists are gonna theorize. So let’s take a tour of the sexy speculation surrounding the human bosom — with a few stops to explain why it’s so hard to figure out just ...

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Top five confidence killers

Take a deep breath for a moment and center within. Quietly listen to your heart beat and the rhythm of your soul’s deepest desires. You’ve visualized the joy of attaining a magnificent victory. In order to seize it, you must see it. There is a cutting edge advantage that will allow you to stand out in any crowd. The invisible ...

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The four pillars of a healthy relationship

A healthy relationship is based on four words: love, commitment, obligation, and responsibility. Before one can enter into a healthy relationship, one must first know themselves, acknowledge and recognize their patterns, and consciously override the impulse to connect with someone who sets off red flags. For example, you may be attracted to the bad boy, but a healthy person deliberately ...

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Oral sex producing unstoppable bacteria

Oral sex is producing dangerous gonorrhoea and a decline in condom use is helping it to spread, the World Health Organization has said. It warns that if someone contracts gonorrhoea, it is now much harder to treat, and in some cases impossible. The sexually transmitted infection is rapidly developing resistance to antibiotics. Experts said the situation was “fairly grim” with ...

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Lifestyle: Does sexual pleasure depend upon organ-size?

Question: I am a 19-year-old boy studying in a professional college. Despite being good in studies, I suffer from an inferiority complex about the size of my penis. My friends have often told me that the size of the penis is directly proportional to the amount of sexual pleasure given or obtained. They boast about their size and how it ...

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EOCO chases Awuah Darko over GHC40m BOST cash

The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) is on the heels of Kingsley Kwame Awuah-Darko, the immediate-past Managing Director (MD) of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Company Limited, over some alleged payments and withdrawals from the government’s account. The account in question is the Chief of Staff’s ‘Sundry Account’ which the BOST boss regularly lodged money into and ...

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Important link between achievement, motivation and warm parenting

Parents have an important role in identifying children’s talent and guiding them. Mutual understanding and close relationship between parents and children therefore is recommended to stir up a strong achievement motive and a desire to perform task for intrinsic satisfaction. Achievement motivation can be described as the need for success or the attainment of excellence. Individuals will satisfy their needs ...

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