How are you feeling right now? How are your stress levels? These are simple questions, but they can have a powerful impact, particularly when you ask them of yourself. Since the world is so topsy-turvy I just wanted to share with you a helpful skill for getting a better handle on the emotional swings that
Many years ago when I first heard about the power of gratitude, I was highly skeptical. I mean it sounds nice and all that saying “thank-you” can have a big impact on your physical and mental health, and even your sleep, but come on, really? And yet, it’s true. So why am I bringing it
A few years into my PhD program I started to lose sight of why any of it mattered. I struggled with staying productive in my data analysis and writing, and chalked it up to the fact that either I was just being lazy or my research wasn’t as important to me as I once thought
One of my favorite quotes about sleep comes from the writer Ernest Hemingway: “I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” That seems to be even truer these days. How’s your sleep been? Not quite feeling fully rested in the morning? Unfortunately I’ve heard from numerous people
With the world seeming to fall apart over the past week I wanted to use my PhD in neuroscience to help a little bit. There’s COVID-19 and collapsing stock markets, not to mention all the other stuff that was stressing you out before all that happened, so it’s easy to let your anxieties get the
Around 370 BC, the Greek philosopher Plato described his vision of a future ruined by technology: For this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external … and not remember of themselves. …[Y]ou give your disciples not truth, but only
