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Work with Your Hands More, It’s Good for the Brain

Do you often find yourself cleaning your room or doing simple chores when under stress? We all do.

It seems like an oxymoron that doing repetitive tasks helps us relax, but we have all experienced this. That’s because working with our hands have ...

How to Stop People-Pleasing and Start Living on Your Own Terms

People-pleasing may sound like an innocuous habit. After all, what’s wrong with wanting to please others and avoiding confrontations, right?

Well, it is not humanly possible to please everybody we meet, neither is it possible to avoid ...

Are You A People-Pleaser? It Can Harm Your Brain.

Are you always nice, no matter the provocation? Do you bend over backwards to accommodate everybody’s inputs? Do you have an almost pathologic fear of conflict?

If the answer to all this is ‘yes’, you might be a people-pleaser. While this ...

How Encouragement Enhances Our Productivity

Criticisms and conflicts are an inevitable part of our lives. No matter what we do, there will be some people who won’t like something about it, or us. Conversely, there will also be people who would give us courage and appreciation in the face of a ...

How to Use the Mind Palace Method for Flawless Memory

Remember BBC’s Sherlock? Among the various mind methods the eccentric genius employs on the show, Mind Palace is one of the most famous.

However, you do not need to be an eccentric genius to employ the ‘Mind Palace’ technique. While the method is ...

5 Tricks to Retain Everything You Read

Reading is an incredible habit to form and to cultivate. Not only it keeps your brain healthy but it is one habit that successful people from all walks of life have in common. Reading exercises our brain and broadens our knowledge – but only if we ...

Loneliness Can Kill Your Brain. Here’s How to Prevent That.

We live in the age of super connectivity. We can learn about cultures across a continent with a click, and connect with people sitting in thousands of miles away through a device. Isn’t it ironic then, that one of the most pervasive global epidemic ...

The Benefits of Spending Time Alone

In this day and age, we are rarely alone. Even when we are not surrounded by people, we are surrounded by technology that bombards us with information all day long. We may feel connected to a lot more people like this, but our brains are getting ...

Soak up Some Sun – Your Brain Will Love That!

“Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy,” so spoke John Denver in his joyous ode to the golden rays of life, and we can all agree to that. But sunshine does more than making us happy - it makes us smart as well.
While too much sun can expose you ...

Laziness May be Rooted in Your Brain

We all have days when we don’t want to move a leg or stay in bed all day. It is but a natural desire in today’s fast-paced world. Yet some of us get termed ‘lazy’ and some of us do not. Why is that?
The answer is more complicated than “he is just ...