Overcoming our fears is one of the great challenges we all face. They can get inside our heads and stop us doing what we really want to do in life. We can become so consumed by them that we stop living. But the truth is, fear is just created in our minds. It’s not “real”. […] More
Conventional wisdom says that women are not meant to be alone. Single women are often singled out and made to feel like a failure for not being in a permanent relationship or married. We constantly get the message that there’s something wrong with us, that we must get married in order to live happily ever […] More
What’s the secret to longevity? It’s not an easy question to answer. Some people say it’s diet. Other people say it’s keeping stress to a minimum. But according to longevity expert, Susan Pinker, it’s none of these things. After studying an area in an Italian island in the Mediterranean known for the occupants longevity, she […] More
We have all done or said things that we are profoundly ashamed of. No human being escapes the black spiral of shame that dissolves self-love and self-acceptance like acid. To be human is to be ashamed of yourself at some point in your life. I wish from the bottom of my heart for every single […] More
As humans continue to evolve and adapt to the world around us, we can expect to see some changes in the evolutionary design of the human body. We’ve already started to see some of these changes happening with human body parts: some people don’t get wisdom teeth, and we know the appendix isn’t worth its […] More
Good leadership doesn’t come in a one-size-fit-all shape. To be the leader of a company chosen by Forbes as one of America’s most innovative companies, you can be sure, takes a special kind of person. Brad Smith, CEO of Intuit, a $36 billion finance and business software company behind products like TurboTax and QuickBooks, is […] More
For all the research on the human brain, and there’s a lot, we still don’t really understand how the grey matter bobbing in our skulls works. Maybe the problem is that the object we’re trying to study is also the instrument we are using to study it with. It’s a bit like teeth trying to […] More
A while ago, I was a slovenly and overweight 31 year old man. I was also single and looking for love. Something had to give. My self-esteem was low, I felt I had little to offer in a relationship, and that some women were simply out of my league. I settled for girls that I […] More
I don’t know about you, but I find the whole idea of “til death do us part” nerve racking. How am I supposed to stay with the one person for the rest of my life? Yet the reality is that a large percentage of us stay with the same human for over half their lives. […] More
Modern society is so removed from nature that many children who grow up in built-up urban environments think of soil as dirt – as something yucky that you can’t possibly touch with your bare hands or feet. Sadly, they often don’t make a connection between that dirt and the plants and trees that grow in […] More
The meteoric advancement of technology is putting mankind in an existential quandary: how do we prepare our children for a life they will have to master, but that we can’t envision yet because things are changing so fast? How do you prepare children for professional life in an age where robots will be the surgeons, […] More
If you’ve ever wondered why mosquitoes bite some people more than others, you are not alone. It can be frustrating for some people to be outside, especially during the summer months in some parts of the world, when the mosquitoes are very active. There are several reasons why a mosquito might enjoy you as lunch […] More