Outbreak: Can You Catch a Bad Mood?
Moods are as easy to catch as the common cold. When you see someone coughing and sneezing with watery eyes, you reflexively move away from them. The same strategy is a good one to...
6 Ways to Shake Up the “Power-Parenting” Rules
Do you spend more time on your children than with them?
There’s a lot of parenting advice out there. In addition to friends and family weighing in on how to raise a perfect kid, there...
(Not So) Famous Last Words
Do people become more grateful when they are asked to reflect upon their own mortality? Studies show that taking time to thinking about one’s death can actually promote healthy behaviors and help people prioritize what matters most to...
Inspire Your Community to Take Action
Doing good is good for you. One of the best ways to turn a bad day around is to do something for someone else. This is not just feel-good self-help advice - it is...
At an Impasse: Who is the Best Person to Ask for Advice?
At inflection points in life—when graduating from college, in between jobs, in between relationships—we do two things:
1. We engage in some form of soul searching.
The idea is to reflect and reach deep inside ourselves...
Marry Someone Smarter Than You Are
Entrepreneur Jim Rohn famously said,
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
While I am not convinced by the math behind this statement, I wholeheartedly believe we are influenced,...