Make It Matter
“As with our colleges, so with a hundred ‘modern improvements’; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil …
Psychology
Confidence Is Found Outside
As Dr. Heather E. Heying (“Dr. Heying is an evolutionary biologist and a former professor at Evergreen State College”) says in “Nature Is Risky. That’s …
Learning and Science
In “Why Kids Shouldn’t Sit Still in Class” (NY Times, March 21, 2017) Donna de La Cruz wrote:“We fall into this trap that if kids …
To Move Is Human
In our culture, too many of us have sadly gotten too far away some essentials of living a proper human, species-appropriate life. As a result, …
Work Smarter, Not Longer
In “The Research Is Clear: Long Hours Backfire for People and for Companies” (Harvard Business Review, August 19, 2015)), Sarah Green Carmichael writes:In the 19th …
Exercise For Excellence
Most everyone wants to improve grades, performance at school, and performance at work. But we have some bad cultural conventions that preclude achieving optimum function. …
Work Smarter, Not Harder
In “The Research Is Clear: Long Hours Backfire for People and for Companies” (Harvard Business Review, August 19, 2015), Sarah Green Carmichael writes:In sum, the …
Lack of Sleep is a Silent Killer
In “Sleep Deficit: The Performance Killer” (Harvard Business Review, October 2006) Bronwyn Fryer writes:At 12:30 am on June 10, 2002, Israel Lane Joubert and his …
Brain Care is Important
The brain and nervous system are important, yet the vast majority of Americans know little about them (but science still has a lot to learn!), …
Resolve to Sleep
You cannot eat, exercise, medicate, self-medicate, make-believe, get angry, evade, or wish yourself out of insufficient sleep. Just do it.