By Jared Keller — 2017
Coloring books and ball pits are much-needed therapy for the inner child in all of us.
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The most popular course at Yale teaches how to be happy. We took it for you.
But if you’re a procrastinator, next time you’re wallowing in the dark playground of guilt and self-hatred over your failure to start a task, remember that the right kind of procrastination might make you more creative.
It’s natural to get defensive, but that only escalates the cycle of aggression.
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A few months and many deaths ago, I woke up exhausted, again. Every morning, I felt like I was rebuilding myself from the ground up. Waking up was hard. Getting to my desk to write was hard. Taking care of my body was hard. Remembering the point of it all was hard.
There are times when quantity matters more than quality.
LinkedIn’s head of Mindfulness and Compassion explains three ways you are defining success wrong and what you can do to help yourself stay on track.
Stressing the body makes you stronger—as long as you have time to rest and recover.
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Jobs need to be chosen that make use of the strengths of people with autism or Asperger’s syndrome.
Don’t take anything personally. This agreement gives you immunity in the interaction you have with the secondary characters in your story. You don’t have to concern yourself with other people’s points of view.
Emotional intelligence is a set of skills you can get better at with practice. Here are five skills you can cultivate to make you a more emotionally intelligent person.
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