Brain on fire
Like putty, we can reshape the brain. The mind is elastic, not stagnant. We can birth new neurons until the day we die. Yet, we live on...
Tag: happiness
Trying too hard to be happy
Everyone’s out there chasing Mr. Smiley. But “happiness must happen,” wrote Viktor Frankl in Man’s Search for Meaning, “and the same holds for success: you...
More time is better than more money 💸
Time is the most valuable asset we have, yet we often fritter away the minutes using money. Instead of walking up the mountain, we pay...
On making life’s biggest decisions
When it comes to decision-making, first you decide, then you deduce. Of course, life’s biggest decisions such as marriage or a career change are some...
Do we have to be sad to be creative?
According to a recent study, you are more likely to be creative when you are sad. The researcher examined the personal letters of three artists...
The 2-minute exercise that could make you more successful
According to Harvard psychologist Shawn Achor’s book The Happiness Advantage, it is happiness that begets success and not the other way around. And one of the...
The chemicals between us
We all want to experience pleasure all the time. But it’s utility is temporary, the dopamine hit comes and goes. Addiction is the attempt to...