Personal Growth

Think your job is stressful? Imagine if you had to do it strapped to the wings of a propellor plane. The Breitling Wingwalkers are a squadron of pilots and dancers […]

The authors of a recent Harvard Business Review article explored the snowball effect that causes poor decisions to cascade into full-blown behavioral norms.

In her recent Big Think interview, Perel explains that sexuality and marriage have experienced a radical shift over the past few generations. What was once considered a dutiful bond now serves our more individualistic culture driven by love and desire. Where these two feelings meet and diverge is at the core of eroticism.

Harvard linguistics professor Steven Pinker argues that while Ivy League colleges definitely aren’t meritocracies, they still represent good opportunities for students and their families. 

Big Data is a big deal. Not only is it a major asset in today’s tech-driven economy, it also has the ability to tell stories about who we are as […]

Until science develops the perfect app for circumventing procrastination, the secret to nipping your own bad habit is to establish mechanisms to control your deadlines.

Thiruvonam, the final day of the Hindu festival Onam, was celebrated today in areas of southwestern India, most notably in the state of Kerala. In commemmoration, revelers throughout the region constructed […]

According to researchers at the intersection of psychology and education, i.e. measuring the way we learn, tests may be most beneficial before students have learned any of the material on them. 

A job applicant in Los Angeles decided to experiment with using a “whiter” name on his résumé. Doing so elicited interviews with companies that had previously ignored him.

Noted futurist and innovation expert Lisa Bodell knows all about the consequences of static and uninspired business practices. Two years ago she authored an acclaimed book, Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, […]

Researchers have long suspected that drinking wine in moderation contributes to heart health, but new results from a European study conclude that exercise is an essential ingredient to realizing vino’s benefits.

The amount of tuition required to attend a four-year collegiate institution no longer squares with the opportunity it provides, says Robert Reich, former secretary of labor to President Clinton.

Open-plan workspaces with minimalistic designs have become the standard for companies looking to avoid distraction and increase productivity. Yet these kinds of offices can actually reduce productivity.

If you’re feeling a bit sleepy, a coffee nap could be just the thing. Half coffee, half nap, having a caffeine drink just before a nap gives you a little shuteye followed by the full benefits of caffeine. 

Beyond the simple advice of “start putting more away,” optimizing when you start collecting social security can help you save more in the long run. 

Many companies ramp up their hiring after September. Network early and often to get on hiring managers’ radars before they get going.

While ambiguity and shades of gray tend not fit the paradigm of technological solutions, they represent the arts’ most powerful capabilities: to express life with all its complexities. 

While money can’t ultimately buy happiness, it does provide us with little bursts of good feeling, and the duration of that good feeling can vary depending on what kind of purchases we make.

At the end of the day, the to-do list becomes a record of things you didn’t accomplish: not a great reward for a long day’s slog.

Just as Shakespeare’s Prince Hamlet is more often bedeviled by his own thoughts, enhancing your brain might one day mean shutting parts of it down, not getting it to fire on all cylinders.

It has been amusing listening to the religious right’s argument that marriage must be between a man and woman for one simple reason: the institution itself has been crumbling for […]

It’s fairly well-understood that the current generation of new employees doesn’t expect to remain in the same job for longer than five years. If you want to keep your millennials from moving on to new employment, you have to incentivize their staying on.

One of the scariest parts of being fired is that it seemingly affixes a scarlet letter to your chest for future hiring managers to avoid. But if you approach the conversation correctly, a recent firing could be harnessed as an asset in a job interview.

Philip Zimbardo is one of the most famous and prolific psychologists of the past half-century. Best-known as the father of the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, Zimbardo is also author of […]

Many big companies utilize an applicant tracking system (ATS) to organize all the names and résumés submitted to them. Getting the attention of a hiring manager means getting past the ATS.

There are undeniable advantages to carrying a whole library on your Kindle or tablet computer but retaining the information you read doesn’t seem to be one of them. 

An assumption we often make about life’s choices is that the larger the choice, the more deliberation is needed to arrive at the best plan of action. This isn’t always the case, however.

By simply concentrating on being present for a short amount of time each day, your mind will naturally prioritize events and keep you calmer and more focused in the office. 

Air travel is not dangerous. The fear of air travel can be, particularly when it comes to compromising your personal and professional aspirations. Luckily, there are services at your disposal designed to help fight the phobia.

Why not install an adjustable ethics dial on self-driving cars? Because it’s a terrible idea, says Wired’s Patrick Lin, PhD, who is also director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University.