In Praise of Daydreaming

In Praise of Daydreaming

According to a recent study done by Harvard psychologists, average humans let their minds wander 47% of the time they are awake. That’s just under half of all the moments we spend awake, and no that’s not a typo. In fact, unless you’re currently “making love” (and for...
Keeping Your Mental Edge

Keeping Your Mental Edge

How’s your week going so far? Do you feel your schedule fits your available time as well as your personal needs? Or do you feel as if you’re packing a suitcase last minute, stuffing things in haphazardly and forgetting something here or there? The speed of today’s...
Planning Your Exit Strategy

Planning Your Exit Strategy

It may seem counterintuitive or even strangely paranoiac to plan an exit strategy before you want out, but today I’m going to encourage you to do just that. In the event that you do already want out and don’t have an exit strategy in place, you’re now finding out what...
Asking the Right Questions with Jedi Mind Tricks

Asking the Right Questions with Jedi Mind Tricks

Winning arguments is hard, but often, the hardest person to convince is yourself. The reason is that the person has run out of the capacity to have new perspectives. Similar to Plato’s allegory of the cave where reality is defined by only what is projected, we often...