This Is How To Quit Bad Habits Without Willpower: 4 Secrets From Neuroscience
Why do we do the things we do? Aristotle said everything we do was in service of happiness. We weigh the options and pick the thing that is likely to make us happiest… Boy, was Aristotle wrong. Your brain just does not work like that. How many times a day do…
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This Is The #1 Ritual You Need To Do Every Day
Living a good life means managing your time. Problem is, we don’t understand time at all. Go ahead, explain time to me; I’ll wait. (Eric hums to himself and drums fingers on the tabletop.) Don’t blame yourself. To be fair, the nature of time has been a matter of some debate…
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This Is The Best Time To Do Anything: 6 Powerful Secrets From Research
In 2007 the World Health Organization declared shift work a probable carcinogen. Yeah, you read that right: working at the wrong time can kill you. And cancer isn't the only problem it causes. If horror movies don't give you nightmares, the list of health problems associated with shift work will. So what's the…
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This Is How To Have A Long Awesome Life: 5 Secrets From Research
Daniel Lieberman decided to do an informal -- and very sneaky -- study. While at an academic conference, he counted how many people took the escalator vs the stairs. In ten minutes, 151 people walked past him and only 11 used the stairs. That's just 7 percent. Thing was, this was…
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How to Be Happier Without Really Trying
The voice in his head kept telling him his career was over. That he would never create anything good again. The voice actually got so bad that back in 1979 he started typing up what it was saying to him: Am I kidding myself that I’m able to write a script…
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New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Secrets That Will Make You Emotionally Intelligent
None of them had died thus far. The raptors and trolls of the jungles of Zul’Gurub were simply no match for the group. And now the 20 elite Warlocks and Hunters descended into the dungeon. But their greatest enemy was ready for them… Hakkar the Soulflayer, a winged serpent, stood over…
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4 Rituals To Keep You Happy All The Time (Pandemic Edition)
e autopsies would show they had coughed so hard their abdominal muscles had been torn apart. And some of the bodies had actually turned blue. From The Great Influenza: Cyanosis occurs when a victim turns blue because the lungs cannot transfer oxygen into the blood. In 1918 cyanosis was so extreme, turning some victims so dark—the entire body could take on color resembling that of the veins on one’s wrists—it sparked rumors that the disease was not influenza at all,…
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3 Things The Most Resilient People Do Every Day
us far, 2020 seems to have been some sort of cosmic clerical error. All around the world people are falling ill, everyone's afraid, and the economy, well... Let's just say I've never heard the word "trillion" used so often and it certainly has not been in a good way. In the United States, some bad actors are exploiting peaceful protests of noble intent to loot and cause mayhem. Times are tough so, of course, people will become cruel and selfish...…
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