What to Do on Your First Date (and What Not to Do)
First dates succeed or fail based on one skill: making the other person feel genuinely seen and heard. Good first…
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Discover science-backed techniques, hacks and step-by-step guides to optimize your productivity and well-being. From sleep and nutrition to habits and time management, transform your daily routines with proven strategies for success.
How to buy yourself some happiness
Research shows that spending money on experiences and relationships produces lasting happiness, while buying material goods leads to rapid satisfaction…
Magnesium L-Threonate for Better Sleep
Magnesium L-threonate (MgT) is the only magnesium form designed to cross the blood-brain barrier, and two recent clinical trials show…
The Reverse Bucket List
Harvard happiness researcher Arthur C. Brooks found that completing every item on his bucket list left him less happy, not…
The Napoleon Technique for your Email Management
The Napoleon technique is a productivity strategy where you deliberately delay responding to non-urgent requests, letting time filter out problems…
The 5-Minute Meeting Hack
A Google engineering’s simple scheduling trick (starting meetings at :05 instead of :00) spread organically across his entire organization, and…
A Teaspoon of MCT Oil in your Coffee
Adding a teaspoon of MCT oil to your morning coffee triggers rapid ketone production, suppresses appetite, and pairs with caffeine…
Passive Exposure makes Learning Faster
A study found that passive exposure to relevant sounds helped mice learn a categorization task significantly faster. The principle likely…
This tennis ball trick improves your sleep
A sleep researcher explains how sewing a tennis ball into your sleep shirt can reduce snoring and improve sleep by…
The 20-Second Rule to Avoid Bad Habits
The 20-second rule eliminates distractions by adding small barriers to bad habits and removing friction from good ones. No willpower…