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Top 15 Brain Exercises to Keep Your Mind Sharp

Top 15 Brain Exercises to Keep Your Mind Sharp

Practicing a new and challenging activity is a good bet for building and maintaining cognitive skills.

Train your brain - Harvard Health As people age, cognitive skills wane and thinking and memory become more challenging, so they need to build up the brain’s reserve. Embracing a new activity that requires thinking, learning, ongoing practice can be one of the best ways to impro...

9 Habits Of Productive People

9 Habits Of Productive People It doesn’t matter what you do or where you work – everyone is looking for ways to be more productive on the job. But excessive amounts of caffeine and list-making won’t get you any closer to reaching peak productivity levels today. So, why are we all so obsessed with productivity? It’s [...]

8 Ways to Train Your Brain to Learn Faster and Remember More

8 Ways to Train Your Brain to Learn Faster and Remember More Training is not just reserved for your body. It's also good for your brain. Here are 8 ways on how to train your brain to learn faster and remember more.

In this talk (published last month), psychologist Kelly McGonigal talks about the fascinating research she’s conducted that says stress in itself isn’t bad for us. The only factor that affects whether stress harms us is how we view the stress. A fascinating talk.

How to make stress your friend Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positiv...

Shawn Achor argues that happiness inspires productivity, not the other way around. An incredible talk, and in my opinion, a must-watch.

The happy secret to better work We believe we should work hard in order to be happy, but could we be thinking about things backwards? In this fast-moving and very funny talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that, actually, happiness inspires us to be more productive.