AI is both a tool and a catalyst — and the key to successful integration is to rewrite your rule book and tinker.
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Inflection points veer life in unexpected directions. While unnerving, they provide opportunities for those who can navigate them.
People who score high in “obsessive passion” can become rigidly consumed by ideological causes — sometimes dangerously so.
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Positivity psychologist, lecturer and author Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar shares techniques on how to unlock happiness at work.
You don’t need to ride into the danger zone to take advantage of TOPGUN’s life and career lessons.
If you want to sleep more, try working less, eating better, and exercising more. Alternatively, you could emigrate to Albania.
In work and life, the rules of success are being redefined.
How Stacy Madison — founder of Stacy’s Pita Chips and BeBOLD Foods — discovered that reinvention is not a one-off deal but an ongoing process.
Executive advisor Tiffani Bova wants leaders to value their employees as much as their customers.
Unlock the paradoxes of life through poetic realism.
What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.
Stories of child prodigies and the naturally gifted hide the fact that success is built on more than talent alone.
For centuries, Newton’s inverse square law of gravity worked beautifully, but no one knew why. Here’s how Einstein finally explained it.
Extremely precise atomic clocks are not just of theoretical interest; they could help detect impending volcanic eruptions or melting glaciers.
Being a jerk gets you rich, promoted, and laid (if you’re a man). But there is a downside.
Pain makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. What’s puzzling is why so many of us choose to seek out painful experiences.
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Hear from Commander Guy Snodgrass, a former TOPGUN graduate and instructor, on how to develop high-performing teams at your organization.
Autocrats like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin fear democracy, yet go to great lengths to present themselves as democratic leaders.
The American author said he attempted to bring scientific thinking to literary criticism, but received “very little gratitude for this.”
Modern memory athletes use this ancient technique to memorize thousands of digits of pi.
More than a decade ago, Armenia made chess a required subject in school because it teaches kids how to think and cope with failure. The U.S. should follow suit.
Are you a video gaming master? Put it on your résumé.
All religions have three traits: metaphysical commitments, ethical guidance, and daily rituals or practices. So does Stoicism.
People underestimate their opponent’s capacity to feel basic human sensations. We can short-circuit this impulse through moral reframing and perspective taking.
Asking the wrong questions can hold you back. Natalie Nixon explains how to ask divergent questions to become a great thinker.
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“Of course, the spleen is the biggest organ in the body.”
A wide-scale examination of early Neolithic human skeletons reveals the violent history of a supposedly peaceful period.
We all see beauty the same way.