Researchers found working out in a group lowers stress by 26 percent and significantly improves quality of life, while those who exercise individually put in more effort but experienced no significant changes in their stress level and a limited improvement to quality of life, according to a study published in The Journal of the American …
Try to Stay on Task in the Morning It’s inevitable that things will come up during the day, things you hadn’t counted on or allotted time for. Instead of stopping what you’re doing to deal with them, save them for the afternoon. In general, people tend to be more the most productive and creative in …
The event took place at the always inspiring Newspeak House, with roughly 30 participants split into groups. Rich warned us he would be delivering a lot of condensed information and I wondered if he would live up to the promise… 4 slides and 20 minutes later I was reeling with new ideas. It’s not that his …
The steps themselves might be deceptively simple: pick one habit, keep it small to start with, and remember to do it every day. But it’s not always so easy — there are a number of forces that can stand in the way: People in our lives create resistance to the habit. Our environment itself creates …
But like so many conferences, it was more about the traffic, about drawing a crowd: lots of like-minded, predominantly white middle-aged folks gathering to share inspiration and congratulations. It featured serial, one-directional communication—sages from the stage—and left no time for questions, discussions, or for people to meet and talk with each other. Perhaps the most …
Platt and his colleagues recorded neuron behavior in the posterior cingulate cortex. Neural activity there built up until it peaked, at which point the animals changed course, revealing correlational evidence that this spike in brain function leads to the divergent thinking and action rather than happens because of it. “If you increased activity in the …
There are countless things we can do to create peace of mind, both in response to events in our lives, and proactively, everyday. If you’d also like to develop a greater sense of peace, you may find these suggestions helpful. Source: 40 Ways to Create Peace of Mind
Make sure it’s fun. Doing a chore is boring and hard, and you’ll put it off, even if it’s just a 10-minute session. Instead, don’t make it a chore that you have to get through. Make it a game that you look forward to doing. Or a mini-meditation session that brings peace to your life, …
Managers focused on enhancing operational efficiency, and they fixated on internal processes and procedures. As a result, they did not recognize key trends and changes in the marketplace. They did not spend enough time learning about new types of competitors. How can we become better at scanning our external environment? Here are four key steps …
By studying these interaction networks, we reveal the (complex, fractional) nature of social contagion and establish that individuals with relatively few, but strongly connected, neighbors are both most socially influential and most susceptible to social influence. Furthermore, we demonstrate that we can predict complex cascades of behavioral change at their moment of initiation, before they …