Sleeping more flushes junk out of the brain
...Rhythmic activity during sleep may get fluids in the brain moving...
...Rhythmic activity during sleep may get fluids in the brain moving...
...While some may cringe at forced corporate rituals, research shows that personal and team rituals can actually benefit the way we work...
...There’s no such thing as work life balance. There’s simply life. And you spend part of your life at work...
...Happiness is a paradoxical goal. We all want to be happy, yet we often fail spectacularly at predicting what will make us happy...
...Unless you’re winning, most of life will seem hideously unfair to you...
...Just picture the freedom that would come with not wanting to buy stuff and being content with what you have. So much so, that you would find joy in noticing all the things you didn’t want...
...Leaders are experiencing extreme demands for compassion at a time when there’s no room for compromising on outcomes. As a result, many leaders have fallen into the trap of thinking in terms of a binary choice between compassion or performance...
...As you’ve no doubt found from your own experience, the “We can have it all” mindset fails frequently as we repeatedly come up short trying to be the best at everything...
...Unreasonable expectations are the ultimate joy killer...
...What I learned from Michael Easter’s excellent book is how our bodies are programmed to be pushed. We were made to struggle, to be uncomfortable, to do hard things beyond our perceived capabilities. When we do, our potential expands. The boundaries we thought existed before stretch out like an expanding empire...
...How big a swing do we need to make it feel like it matters?...
...I look at the concept of willpower as mental energy. Whenever you want to do something, you need to dedicate energy to that. Whether you can follow through on your intention or not depends on willpower...
...Successful goal attainment and behavior change are possible, but leaning exclusively on willpower and determination isn’t likely to get the job done...
...The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows...
...Your Gmail can be used over and over again, with no one the wiser...
...But then, often, a human being shows up with something that ‘everyone’ says isn’t going to work, and the game is reset...
...What do people value in life? How much of what gives people satisfaction in their lives is fundamental and shared across cultures, and how much is unique to a given society?...
...If everyone has the same number of hours in the day, why do some people seem to get so much more done than others? We’ve heard all the platitudes about everyone having the same 24 hours and time being a finite resource...
...Here are five stories from five different people that reveal the mindsets of the most successful among us...
...After a swim, everything is better...