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You know that moment when your brain starts pumping a cocktail of stress hormones into your bloodstream, and you begin to doubt your own thoughts, feelings, choices and desires? It’s such a shitty place to be. Losing trust in your own judgment is one of those cruel tricks the mind plays on us. Feels like a betrayal. Like you’ve been mentally hijacked. My friend of has obsessive compulsive disorder,…

Macgyver’s most memorable episode was when he was hanging out of car going eighty miles an hour, by his foot, while the communists chased him to the border with guns and army trucks. His task, of course, was to transfer the power steering fluid into the brake cylinder before the car crashed into the fence and killed everybody. Pretty standard day at work for that guy. But even though…

Sometimes something alien arrives and throws your whole paradigm out of whack. Could be a piece of art, an email from a customer, or a simple conversation with a friend or family member. But whatever that alien thing is, it swoops in and totally shifts the lens through which you view everything familiar. You see yourself through a new set of eyes, possibly not even yours. And the scary…

Optimism doesn’t increase our success, but it does increase our field of vision, which is what allows us to better notice and build upon the opportunities that lead to success. Cynicism, on the other hand, narrows our vision. The reason it doesn’t seem to make anything better because we’re not in the mindset of looking for ways to make them better. It builds negative momentum, which only makes us…

Mayo published a study about the comparative relevance of physical fitness on life expectancy. Nearly half a million people were surveyed, and they found that fast walking participants lived longer than those who walked at a slower pace. Turns out, if you want be around longer, try speeding it up while you’re on a stroll. Who knew that walking a little faster might add years to your life? Personally, I’d like…

Sometimes it’s difficult to tell if your experience is a dream, a memory or a lie. Like when you wake up from a nightmare feeling convinced that the event really happened to you. Or when you’ve fantasized about a person so many times, you actually have to stop and ask yourself, wait, did we really meet up in that hotel room, or was it just my imagination? What about…

Being colorblind doesn’t have a huge impact on my daily life. My reds and greens may be a bit off kilter, but other than the occasional fashion faux pas, and one or two traffic light homicides, it’s not something worth obsessing over. In fact, my inability to discern certain colors has led me to ask an important question. What if everything in my life didn’t have to match perfectly?…

There’s a popular study that polled two thousand workers about their daily schedules. One question was, if you had to state a figure, how long do you think you spend productively working during work hours on a daily basis? The results of revealed the average answer to be just under three hours. In a typical workday, that nets out to less than forty percent. Are you surprised by this…

Seinfeld was once asked how he felt about death. His response was: Dying is going to be fantastic! Think of all things you’re done with. What a beautiful, liberating concept. Because is there any sweeter sensation than being done with things? It’s the best. You just feel so light and free and complete. Note, for my usage of the word done, it’s not the classic definition of finishing something…

Here’s a statistic that blows my mind. Fifty percent of people cannot touch their toes. Isn’t that sad? The hilarious part is, the person who commissioned that research study is the chairman of a global fitness franchise, so the data might be a bit biased. Nevertheless, the issue of flexibility, or lack thereof, is a critical one to discuss. Not only because it can lead to life threatening circulatory…