The 5 Habits That Will Make You Happy, According to Science
So what’s going to make you happy? Let’s get more specific: what’s going to make your brain happy? And let’s focus on things that are simple and easy to do instead of stuff like winning the lottery. Neuroscience has answers. I’ve discussed this subject before and it was so popular I decided to call an expert to get even more dead simple ways to start your brain feeling joy. Alex Korb is a...
14 Reasons You’re Tired All the Time
Lack of sleep isn’t the only thing sapping your energy. Little things you do (and don’t do) can exhaust you both mentally and physically, which can make getting through your day a chore. Here, experts reveal common bad habits that can make you feel tired, plus simple lifestyle tweaks that will put the pep back in your step. 1. You skip exercise when you’re tired Skipping your workout to save...
What to Know About Parkinson’s Disease After Muhammad Ali’s Death
Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali died on Friday at 74, decades after he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. He had recently been admitted to a hospital in Arizona with serious respiratory issues, and family members rushed to his bedside as his condition deteriorated. The Associated Press offers some answers to common questions about Parkinson’s: Q: What is Parkinson’s? A: Parkinson’s is...
Losing weight comes down to overcoming 3 main hurdles
So you want to drop a couple sizes. You know the drill: Eat more veggies; fewer cookies. Drink more water; less soda. Work out a few times a week. Still, while most of us know the basics of healthy living, getting trim is hard work. That's why we recently talked to exercise scientist Philip Stanforth, executive director of the Fitness Institute of Texas and a professor of exercise science at the...
Have You Ever Wished Someone Was Dead?
How normal are homicidal thoughts and what should we do about them? A Frisco teenager told a counselor last year he was having homicidal thoughts about his father — three months before both his parents were fatally shot in their home. A psychiatrist who treated accused Aurora mass murderer James Holmes testified in court Tuesday that he was having thoughts of killing people 3-4 times a day. On...
This is the true measure of a persons success
Its not talent that counts, but a persons grit. Anything worthwhile requires sticking with it longer than you might have originally thought. GRIT: Is a special combination of passion and perseverance for long term term goals, or in other words, Grit is sticking with things and not giving up on them. 4 Things are crucial for Grit: Having a tremendously deep interest in what you do Capacity to...
How to Spot Bullshit: A Primer by Princeton Philosopher Harry Frankfurt
We live in an age of truthiness. Comedian Stephen Colbert coined the word to describe the Bush administration’s tendency to fudge the facts in its favor. Ten years after the American Dialect Society named it Word of the Year, former president Bush’s calendar is packed with such leisure activities as golf and painting portraits of world leaders, but “truthiness” remains on active duty. It’s...
The Decline of Play and Rise in Children's Mental Disorders
Rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past 50 to 70 years. Today, by at least some estimates, five to eight times as many high school and college students meet the criteria for diagnosis of major depression and/or anxiety disorder as was true half a century or more ago. This increased psychopathology is not the result of changed...
