Category: Personal Development

Sometimes, those filling administrative roles can feel pretty powerless. But you have more power than you realize.

The pandemic has seismically altered the world we live in and the way we live in it. While we adjust and move forward—returning to onsite work, adjusting to new hybrid positions or taking extra precautions to combat new covid strains ramping up—it can be trickier to take care of ourselves in the ways we used to.

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Recently on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” guest Professor James Goodwin talked about brain health. Host A. Martinez mentioned that his father was convinced that doing a crossword puzzle in pen, every day, would keep his mind sharp.

Inspire confidence with questions … Hold, please … Try this homemade ink remover … The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., has a lot of shelving. Like, a lot …Where did J.K. come from? … One of Dracula’s biggest fans is gone

Type a few words into a search engine, read the first one or two results, and job done. Right? With the advent of results engineered to show you what others want you to see rather than what you asked for (search engine optimization, or SEO), maybe not.

In her book Brilliant Burnout, Nisha Jackson advocates taking charge of your health to maximize your mood, sleep and ability to manage stress. Here are just a few of her tips to fit some activity into your day.

The terms soft skills and hard skills get bandied about a lot. But what do they really mean? In broad terms, they refer to important left-brain (hard) and right-brain (soft) powers that complement one another. Here’s a general breakdown.

Sometime in your professional career, you’ve likely wanted to speak up about an issue but were hesitant to make that move. The authors of the book Crucial Accountability talk about being in this precarious position, and how fear can corrode our judgment.

“Nowadays, we no longer believe that creativity comes to us from the muses of ancient Greek mythology,” writes clinical psychologist Dr. Jade Wu. “Instead, psychological science gives us some clues into where creativity comes from and how we can cultivate it.” She offers six tips for creative cultivation.