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Imagination is More Important Than Knowledge
“Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination encircles the world, stimulates progress, gives birth to evolution.” –Albert Einstein A few years ago I watched my daughter playing at the park with her friends. The play...
The Neuroscience of Affirmations, and Why You Need to Start Doing Them
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” –Wayne Dyer In the very first microsecond you first looked at this image, your brain registered one of two things—a candlestick or two faces. If you still don’t see the other image, look...
Profile in Resilience: The Marathon of Hope
What do you do when tomorrow feels impossible? Terry fox didn’t know how his story would end. He knew he had cancer and had lost his leg. He knew his cancer could return—but he kept running. He didn’t need to figure out how he would make it across the continent, he...
Happy at Work—10 Tips For Finding a Job You Love
For most people, work has a huge impact on overall life happiness. Furthermore, staying in a job you hate can have devastating consequences for your health, your emotional well-being, and your relationships. After all, we spend about 1/3 of our lives at work, about...
Lessons in Happiness from 75 Years of Harvard Research
“I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they could know it wasn’t the answer to anything.” –Jim Carey In the last 100 years, science has come a very long way in understanding happiness. And you can use this research to enrich your life, avoid...
The Price Tag of Hurry
*Photo by Andy Beales Unsplash.com For most of my life, I’ve been in a hurry. While I was in full-time graduate school, I also worked 32 hours a week. I was so fried by the weekend that I would drive 8 hours on Friday night from LA to Utah to go backpacking just to...
Penguin Suits and The Perils of Zero-Gravity Living
On June 1, 1970, two Soviet cosmonauts Andriyan Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanov launched Soyuz 9, spending the next 18 days in space. This broke the previous human spaceflight record by 14 days (the American Gemini 7 in 1965). Soyuz 9 remains the longest crewed...
