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The Science Behind Why Slow Thinking Lowers Your Stress
We use two modes of thinking: fast thinking and slow thinking. Here's how slow thinking will reduce your stress and help you make better decisions.
The Science Behind How Emotions Lead to Smarter Decisions
Often considered an obstacle to getting things done, emotions work to help us reason and thrive. Without emotions, you couldn't make good decisions.
The Secret to Finding the Elusive Balance Between Busy and Happy
The happiest people balance busy schedules by not feeling rushed. Attain this by overcoming the inclination to enjoy busyness for more than it’s worth.
The Transparency Paradox: How Transparency Can Force Your Best Employees to Hide
The transparency paradox arises when there's no trust and autonomy, benefiting the manager’s curiosity instead of equipping employees to do their best work.
The Paradox of Why Top Performers Fail Under Pressure
While top performers should be best equipped to handle performance pressure, the curious paradox is that they might be the most prone to buckling.
The Science of Why It’s OK to Fail at Your New Year’s Resolution
Most New Year's resolutions fail, but that's OK. Here's the science of why resolutions still make sense, how to make them stick, and why it’s okay to fail.
The Risky Mentality that Made Jeff Bezos So Successful
For Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, success isn’t a race to the top. It’s an adventure. Here's why the explorer mentality has been so critical to his success.
The Simple Trick to Achieving Your Goals
Here's a simple trick to achieving your goals without incredible doses of willpower or remarkable motivation.
The Secret to Marketing that’s Impossible to Copy
Today, it’s company culture that creates marketing messages that spread. It’s the secret sauce that’s impossible to replicate. Here's why.
The One Thing Virtusize Does Every Day to Provide the Perfect Fit
Virtusize helps clothes shoppers on the web find the right size by comparing measurements to clothes they already own. Here's how they grow their business.
The most productive thing you’ll do today is practice
Daily practice is the key to improve productivity. Doug Lemov explains this in depth in his book Practice Perfect
The Most Innovative Google Employees Aren’t Stanford/MIT grads with Perfect SATs
Innovative Google employees have a strong sense of autonomy, not fancy pedigrees, per Google people analytics.
The Procrastination Workshop: The Best of the Internet
Marc Andreessen’s surprising procrastination antidote to super-productive superpowers and 5 more of the best links from around the web on productivity.
The Struggles of Creativity
Artist Christoph Niemann about making his first app and the creativity struggle: being the artist and the editor at the same time.
The Struggles of Managing the Invisible
The challenge of knowledge worker management is that so much of knowledge work takes place in our heads and out of sight. Here's how managers can cope.
The Perks of Considering Your Plan “Dead”
The Perks of Considering Your Plan "Dead" Sometimes the sheer clarity of hindsight is like life’s annoying way of saying, “I told you so!” Looking in the rearview mirror to see what went wrong is...
The Science of Resolutions
Chances are slim that your resolutions will last. Here's how to make them stick based on the science of resolutions
The Science of Productivity
Productivity is really about how you and your brain work. Gregory Ciotti‘s collaboration with ASAPScience yields a fascinating video on the science of productivity, giving a quick look at willpower, energy management, and effective work habits like documenting your progress. Productively intrigued? Check out Greg’s ful
The Science of Procrastination
AsapSCIENCE explains the science of procrastination - and how to manage your brain wanting to do fun stuff now.
The Sprawling Guide to Content Marketing that Made Us $10,000
Here's everything we've learned about content marketing from making our first $10,000.
The Other Half of Your Job
Half of your job is doing your work, the other half is communicating that it's been done. Working with people is hard, that's why communicating is essential
The Peak Time for Everything
A growing body of research suggests that paying attention to the body clock, and its effects on energy and alertness, can help pinpoint the different times of day when most of us perform our best at specific tasks, from resolving conflicts to thinking creatively. Sue Shellenbarger explores The Peak Time for Everything
The Story Spine
Teresa Norton writes at HBR about how a simple exercise called the story spine can help you get unstuck and make change while “living truthfully” at work. The story spine is a narrative tool created by playwright, improviser, and theater educator Kenn Adams used to craft well-structured stories. As Norton’s post shows,