Twelve Life Lessons

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A dozen things I learned over the past year. Source:https://medium.com/ By:Nina Gheihman Photo:Sunset over Jaipur, India. January 2018. © Nina Gheihman Exactly a year ago, I left my comfortable existence in Cambridge, Massachusetts to embark on a year-long travel adventure for my dissertation research. My first stop was Paris, then Tel Aviv, and finally Los […]

You’re Not Getting Enough Sleep—and It’s Killing You

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Source:https://www.wired.com/ By: EMILY DREYFUSS At TED 2019, neuroscientist Matthew Walker argued that sleep deprivation is having a catastrophic effect on our health and safety—here are all the ways. The whole world is exhausted. And it’s killing us. But particularly me. As I write this, I’m at TED 2019 in Vancouver, which is a weeklong marathon of talks and workshops and coffee […]

5 Easy Ways to Begin Improving Your Life.

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Source:https://medium.com/ By:Adam Bergen Photo:Monday Views Instagram The personal development field is an interesting one. There’s no shortage of information and sources on how to improve yourself, from the tried-and-true books (from well-known authors) to places like Quora, where anyone can become an expert and push their opinion. Now I don’t consider myself an expert; far […]

5 Types of Music That Increase Your Productivity, According to Science

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Source: https://medium.com/ By:Melissa Chu Photo credit: Lauren Mancke Music has a way of permeating through empty corners and filling up environments with substance. It can help you relax, make you well up in tears, or feel alive. But can it make you more productive? We use music to set the tone of our environment and our mood, whether we’re […]

This Is Why You Do Need A (Realistic) Morning Routine.

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Source:https://theascent.pub/ By: Deb Knobelman, PhD Photo by Bailey Zindel on Unsplash Especially if you are a night owl or have ADHD. My son wanted to make his own smoothie yesterday. He drinks a lot of smoothies. And at 10 years old, he is perfectly capable of making his own. I make him almost the exact same combination every day. […]

What Happens When You Put Down Your Phone.

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Source:https://medium.com/ By:Irina Achim Photo by Flo Karr on Unsplash You’ll look at your father and notice the way in which he’s struggling to find some conversation subject with you because he’s so happy to see you home and you know that you’d better join him in this struggle since his grey hair that stubbornly continues to show comes […]

When Should You Quit?

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Source: https://medium.com/ By:Melissa Chu photo credit: Tobias Zils Quitting has a negative association. We describe it as giving up, being non-committal, or lacking perseverance. When someone quits, it’s easy to assume that the person simply didn’t give it their all. To be sure, quitting prematurely happens too often. Whenever you try something, you’re going to have difficulties. […]

12 Mindfulness Hacks You Can Use in 24 Hours.

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Source:https://medium.com/ By:Larry Kim Mindfulness is all the rage these days, and with good reason. Practicing mindfulness has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety. A new study from the University of Oxford even found that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is as effective as antidepressants in preventing depression relapses. What is Mindfulness? What may at first seem […]

The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same

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Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/ by Emerging Technology from the arXiv PEOPLEIMAGES / GETTY / STOCK PHOTO. POSED BY MODEL. You’ve probably seen this effect—perhaps you are a victim of it. You feel alienated from mainstream culture and want to make a statement that you are not part of it. You think about wearing different clothes, experimenting with a […]

We Millennials Don’t Want Jobs, We Want Lives

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Source: https://medium.com/s By: Ye Chen We’re in the year 2018, and the topic on ‘Millennials are hard to manage’ is still getting thrown around. As a Millennial myself, I’m often hearing complaints from business owners and executives about our work ethic, such as we’re hard to manage, we’ve got no commitment and no drive whatsoever. […]