This Is How To Keep Your Brain Sharp As You Age: 5 Secrets From Research
ing isn’t always so fun. Your body starts making sounds like a settling old house. One day you're in your prime, and the next, you're googling whether "senior moment" is a medically recognized condition. The thing about aging is that it's sneaky, like a ninja with joint pain. You try to recall a name, and your brain's like, “We have names in here somewhere, but we’re going to need to file a request for that. Check back in two to…
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New Research Reveals 8 Secrets That Will Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Succeed
study by Richard Wiseman, a psychology professor at University of Hertfordshire, found 88% of people fail to achieve their New Year’s Resolutions. Yeah, almost nine out of ten. Cynically, you could see these resolutions as a yearly exercise in self-delusion. The tradition where we all collectively decide to lie to ourselves in a more structured format. Often, they’re like annual subscriptions we buy for a better version of ourselves… only to realize we’re more into the free trial. Why…
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This Is The Simple Way To Achieve Your Goals: 3 Secrets From Research
rategy. It's treated with a reverence usually reserved for sacred relics or the last slice of pizza. I love reading corporate strategy because I’m a big fan of fiction. Typically, it’s a phrasebook of jargon that could make a dictionary weep. It says nothing, offends no one, has no clear actions, and makes no hard decisions. It’s all “blue sky” vision. Rarely are challenges mentioned or any insight provided. It’s all mission, values, and lots of vague goals. And when…
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This Is How To Overcome Fear: 4 Secrets From Research
, Halloween. The time of year when you can paint your face green, throw on some horns, and traipse around the neighborhood begging for candy without ending up in an intervention. The only thing scarier than the ghouls and goblins is the calorie count. The emotion du jour? Fear. If fear were a person, I wouldn't invite it to my birthday party. Outside of Halloween, we generally prefer not to be afraid in life. And that’s fear’s purpose: to keep…
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This Will Make You Feel More Positive: 11 Secrets From Research
metimes the pressure to be positive can get really annoying. The slogans, jeez, the slogans. "Be the change you want to see in the world." That's all very noble, but I can barely be the change I want to see in my living room. The propaganda of positivity forever bleating its mantra of happiness until you wish you could cram it into a cannon and fire it into the sun. But you know what? It works. Just ask yourself, “What’s…
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How To Get The Best Sleep Of Your Life: Six Secrets From Research
, sleep. That miniature coma we indulge in when reality becomes too tiresome to endure. It's essentially the "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" of life. The health negatives of not getting enough sleep are serious. Research has found risk associations between short sleep and hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, and dementia. Sleeping less than six hours a night is associated with a 20% higher chance of heart attack. Research shows two weeks of sleeping six hours…
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This Is How To Succeed Under Pressure: 4 Secrets From Astronauts
the International Space Station nothing is comfortable and everything is a challenge. There’s no running water and even less privacy. Your world is covered in Velcro. And it’s loud. Fans whir and hum constantly, interrupted by the occasional micrometerorite slamming into the Station’s armor. Weightlessness does a number on your sinuses causing congestion, so food always tastes bland like when you have a head cold. There’s an emphasis on oatmeal, pudding and cooked spinach because food that clumps is…
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New Neuroscience Reveals How To Overcome Boredom, Frustration, And Impatience
fe, much like that questionable tuna salad at the office potluck, is a strange mix of flavors. We have many different feelings, many different emotions. Some are nicer than others -- and some we complain about a lot. Like boredom, frustration, and impatience. Well, I’ve got news for you: none of those three are bad things. You’re shooting the messenger. It’s an emotional friendly fire incident. In fact, boredom, frustration, and impatience are downright good for you. Yeah, I said…
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