Want to Win (Anything)? That’s Going to Take True Empathy
The ability to balance empathy and analytical thinking is a huge advantage.
5 Tips to Avoid the Loneliness of Working From Home
Step 1: Set a routine and stick with it.
4 Ways to Be More Positive
Because the more cheerful you are, the likelier you are to be imaginative and innovative.
How to Deal With Negative People
By helping friends and family become more positive when they’re down, your world gets brighter, too.
How to Forgive Yourself for Your Mistakes
Self-forgiveness is about allowing yourself to move forward once you’ve acknowledged your folly and done your best to make amends.
How to Break the Pattern of Dwelling on Past Mistakes
It’s time to move on from your missteps. Use these 4 tactics to let go of negative experiences and live happily in the present.
Do These 6 Things to Be More Humble
Humility is a quality that can effect powerful positive change in your life. Use these six strategies to learn to be more humble.
How to Exponentially Improve Your Performance
“Do your best.” We’ve heard that advice since pre-K, but how often do we really perform at our own personal best? Probably not that often if we’re in the groove of work and family life. And if we’ve been in that groove long enough, neuroscience tells us that the bar for our “best” has probably […]
Need to Lose a Few Pounds? Get Happier
About a decade and a half ago, I lost 50 pounds over the course of two years. People frequently asked me how I’d done it and were uniformly dismayed to hear that I hadn’t tried to. They wanted calorie-reducing tips, yoga-class recommendations and diet endorsements. Some of them probably wanted to hear how I suffered, sacrificing dinners […]
8 New Rules of Innovative Leadership
Historically, we’ve thought of leaders and innovators as belonging in two distinct categories. George Washington, Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Those are leaders. And legends such as Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein go in the innovators group, right? Well, maybe. But in today’s world, we can’t afford to separate the two, […]
The Bright Side of Our Darkest Instincts
“Happiness is pleasant, but it is problematic as an objective in life,” said Todd Kashdan, Ph.D., professor of psychology and senior scientist at the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. “We should all stop trying to be so positive.” As someone who writes regularly about the science of happiness […]
Flow Makes Life Better—So Go with It (Here’s How)
The first time I experienced flow occurred during my high school geometry final exam. I’d never been a math person, but something about the tangible shapes, lines and corners made sense to me. I remember steadily writing the formulas, finishing problem after problem, flipping the page to start the next set, and repeating. The test […]
