By Kristin Wong — 2020
Play can feel silly, unproductive and time consuming. And that’s precisely the point.
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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.
The most popular course at Yale teaches how to be happy. We took it for you.
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.
If you use your awareness, you will see everything you believe, and this is how you live your life. Your life is totally dominated by the system of beliefs that you learned.