Your Brain Loves Patterns and Routines

an excerpt from Get More Power from your Brain The nearly 86 billion neurons in our brains connect with each other through dendrites, which are …

Make Friends with Your Brain

Want to be more effective at work, and have more fun at home? Just make friends with your brain. Get to know you brain a …

Are you Addicted to your Phone?

When you hear the sound of a text message on your phone, do you automatically reach for and look at the screen? Does your teenager …

I Never Procrastinate

…on what I want to do now, like eat a piece of chocolate, read a good book, or wander around the internet. Procrastination is the …

Sculpt Your Brain

From my reading about brains and minds, I have become convinced that we can compensate for many weaknesses in our own brains by deliberately stimulating …

Build and Condition Your Brain

If you were offered a pill that could do the following for your brain… Increase the growth of brain cells in your memory centre (hippocampus) …

Disputing Your Irrational Thoughts

That *** makes me so mad!! It feels as if ***’s behaviour instantaneously makes us angry, but really it is our own thinking that is …

Am I at Risk for Alzheimer’s?

Joan and Shirley don’t know each other, but they’d enjoyed similar careers. Each was a well-respected accountant who became Chief Financial Officer of her organization. …

Wired and Tired

There is growing evidence that when we play video games, or even just surf the internet for engaging information, we trigger the fight or flight …

Are You Sabotaging Your Best Intentions?

“Self-Control is not a problem in the future, it is only a problem now.” – Shlomo Benartzi According to eminent psychologist Daniel Kahneman, we each …