What an Ancient King knew about AI and your Job
Around 370 BCE, on a riverbank outside Athens, Plato set down a story about a king who turned down a…
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Your Brain Remembers in the Shape of a Mind Map
A mind map matches how your brain stores and recalls facts. One 2002 study found 10% better recall a week…
Energy Management Checklist
Your body isn’t a machine that runs on willpower alone. Energy is a finite resource requiring active management. Here’s a…
The QUICK formula makes talking to strangers easy
Psychologist Gillian Sandstrom’s QUICK formula gives shy people three ways to talk to strangers: questions, common ground, and kindness. See…
Over 40? Here’s How to Build Your Muscles
Muscle loss after 40 is reversible. Follow this science-backed weekly plan to build your muscles, with a no-gym home version…
Grief is love with no place to go
In the opening of the book The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), Didion writes: Life changes fast.Life changes in the…
I don’t have goals
Goals and fantasies look the same at the start. The difference is the work required to achieve them.
The Body Scan Technique for Faster Sleep
The body scan technique is a 10-minute mindfulness practice that help with insomnia by shifting attention away from racing thoughts…
How to find meaning in a meaningless world
The beautiful ones The 8 mice arrived on July 9, 1968 and got dropped into a steel enclosure at the…
How to achieve your goals with the FAST goals framework
MIT research argues SMART goals can encourage low-ambition and weak execution. The FAST framework offers a more dynamic alternative used…