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Emotional Intelligence 2.0 treats a score as the start, not the...
Emotional Intelligence 2.0, by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves, opens with a scored self-check before any exercise. We look at why starting there works,...
Why a Phone on the Table Makes the Whole Room Dumber
A visible phone lowers fluid intelligence, task-switching more than doubles your time, and scrolling is not a break. The biology of attention, explained.
Why We Choke, and the Skill That Makes Us Unshakable
Choking comes from imagining how good it could go. Here's what actually builds a decade of composure: a steep morning, a soft night, and...
The Power of Habit
We’ve all been there. The New Year’s resolution to exercise every day that fizzles out by February. The vow to start a new productive...
The One Thing
Do you ever find yourself drowning in a sea of to-do lists, deadlines, and notifications? You’re constantly busy, your calendar a chaotic mosaic of...
The 5 AM Club
We all know the feeling: the day ends, and we feel overwhelmed, constantly busy yet unproductive, wishing for more hours. In a world of...
Mindset
Reveals how established attitudes affect all aspects of one's life, explains the differences between fixed and growth mindsets, and stresses the need to be...
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Switching costs a rebuild, not a slice
We leave a thought half-finished at ten, and come back to it at noon. The thread is gone, so we build the same conclusion again. Switching doesn't divide the work. It repeats it. Unless the last line is already written down, then coming back is a read, not a rethink.
Early time-restricted eating, 39 RCTs, very low certainty
Thirty-nine randomised trials, 3,236 adults. Earlier eating won, on the numbers. But the certainty of evidence runs very low to moderate, and none of those trials tested a household dinner rule. They tested eating windows in adults who already had cardiometabolic risk. A real signal measured in the wrong people is still a real signal. It just isn't your kitchen yet. Not medical advice. Source: Hamsho et al., 2026, network meta-analysis, 39 RCTs.
The Five Kleśas: Yoga Sūtras 2.3
Patañjali named five things that cling to the mind. He never claimed naming them was the cure. Decoded: the real definition, before the convenient one.