Gorging on cheesy snacks while working on a deadline, or eating a tub-full of ice cream to drown out a heartbreak - most of us have been there at some point of our lives.
This type of eating usually follows an emotional need, even when our body ...
As you are reading this, trillions of tiny living bodies are crawling around inside your very gut.
Gross? Not at all. Without these tiny organisms inside your gut, you won’t be able to digest any food, have no immune system to speak of, and will ...
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
So said Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientific minds of all time. He is not ...
Have you ever been in a spot where you just know something, but you have no rational reason for how or why you know it? You have. I have. We all have, at some point in our lives.
Intuition, gut feeling, hunch - we call it by many names. And ...
What is the worth of art in a culture that holds productivity as its supreme goal?
Art has always been thought of as a whimsical pursuit - one that has no ‘real’ benefit, at least not as real as money or success. Science, however, would tell us ...
Goal-setting has become one of the biggest buzzwords in workplaces the world over. Every management trainer will extol the virtues of goal-setting and every corporate house worth its salt will ask you to set down goals and the timeline to achieve ...
How many times have you told yourself that you need to stop eating so much sugar? How many times you have started sketching out ideas for your novel, only to abandon them a few months/weeks/days in?
Change is hard, even if it is for the better. ...
Willpower is the most essential quality to move forward in life. You need it for everything from breaking a bad habit of learning a new skill and achieving your goals. Yet it seems to elude us when we need it the most.
Many of us believe we don’t ...
Different people may be successful for different reasons, but there is one personal trait that runs through all of them: willpower. The best laid plans may fall flat if we don’t have the willpower to strive through difficulties and distractions. It ...
In our passage through life, we have to make countless decisions every day, and all those decisions shape our lives, changing it this way or that based on the consequences of them. Decision making is the process through which we maintain control ...