You and I are not that Smart
Soundbites, those tiny verbal morsels, are ubiquitous. From billboards to tweets to political slogans, we are awash in them. Soundbites...
The Mozart Effect: Just How Magic Was that Magic Flute?
The person in the cubicle next to you is driving you crazy with their constant chatter. Naturally, you reach for your headphones. Whether...
The Four Phases of Focus
What happens to the brain during meditation? When researcher Wendy Hasenkamp was at Emory University, she and her team ran experiments on...
Mental Representations: The Art of Finding The Elephant
In 1501, the Church of Florence commissioned Michelangelo to sculpt a marble statue of David the Biblical shepherd boy. Because the...
Heroes and Patients: Rage vs. Obsession
Across a wide variety of domains, people who have achieved expertise share a common trait. In fact, this one factor might lie at the very...
Shattering the Three Myths of Expertise
In the last twenty years we’ve learned a tremendous amount about how expertise is created. Scientists like K Anders Ericsson from Florida...
The Three Things Every Leader Needs
What is a leader? The simplest and perhaps most literal definition is “someone with followers.” But the presence of followers alone...
The Pros and Cons of Positive Thinking
What’s the best way to gear up for a new habit? There are two common approaches. One is to imagine the positive outcome of solving a...
Remix culture, revisited
Where do great ideas come from? Often, the answer is “other great ideas, sort of mashed together.” The term “remix culture” was coined...
The Power of Distractibility
Do you experience difficulty in filtering interruptions out of everyday life? Do outside forces—sirens, a co-worker chewing loudly in the...
