Why cute images are a productivity hack

All humans have a mindful capability for creative thought. Unleashing it is dependent on how we're taught to go about the creative process.

Want to solve problems faster? Learn to unleash your connectional intelligence.

It's much more than an art form.

It may be simpler than we thought.

Traveling to Mars is going to be hard. Not going completely bonkers when we're there may be even harder.

How does humanity arrive at great ideas? Simple: we take already great ideas and just arrive at even greater ideas.

Imagined memory palaces are still used by memory champions and the few who practice the memory arts, but they are best known from Greco-Roman times.

There now is compelling evidence to support the notion that much information about another person’s mind can be gleaned from his or her eyes. 

The idea is just as ‘crazy’ as Einstein telling us that time slows down at high speeds, or Darwin saying that our ancestors were apes.    

Frank Ostaseski is a Buddhist teacher and leading thinker in end-of-life care. This is what he's learnt about appreciating life while you have it, and being truly present.

There are many people who preach the supposed benefits of psychedelics, but none do it as well, nor as reliably, as these philosophers and scientists.

What's the best way to learn something new? Embrace your inner imposter, and don't worry about speed—here's why.

Want to think more creatively? Move your body, and move away from your emotional baseline—in any direction.

Science (and life) keep hammering nails “into the coffin of the rational individual." But rationalism and individualism still haunt and systematically mislead—even about where your mind is.

If you cloned yourself perfectly, would the clone have the same mind? At the heart of this question is an investigation into what – and where – consciousness is.

Where is your mind? Professor Daniel Siegel answers this question with a more revolutionary one: Where isn't your mind?

The benefits of actively playing chess are supported by numerous studies.