After you see the #1 habit, please scroll down for #2. They might seem contradictory, but you can't hit your creative stride until you find a way to balance both.
I sat in a crowd of 45,000 in 2013, watching super-billionaire investors Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger riff off each other and deliver quick wit and worldly wisdom about finances and life in general...
Most people believe they can multitask effectively... but a study indicates that people who multitask the most are least capable of doing so.
A reader recently asked, “How can an achievement-motivated workaholic learn to back off, relax, de-stress, and feel good about doing it? I am too driven!”
People who watch funny videos on the internet at work aren't necessarily wasting time.
The hardest habits to change, by far, are the ones people can’t seem to control.
A professor has recently published his magnum opus on the subject of procrastination - and it's only taken him 10 years.
What truly inspires individuals to perform at their very best?
The paradox of happiness is that chasing it may actually make us less happy, a Stanford researcher says.
How does someone else’s success mean anything bad for you?
Research shows that how people view their abilities in the workplace impacts how they respond to success.
The problem isn't capturing our creativity, as individual inspiration is a steady pulse that beats within us all. The problem is keeping those embers hot once we have them in our grasp.
People are better able to exercise self-control when they choose goal-pursuit strategies that fit with their promotion or prevention focus.
Can money buy happiness? Is ignorance truly bliss? Are happy people shallow and unaware of the problems of the world? Can a person be too happy?
It is a beautiful thing to create, to produce, to go out there in the world and make a contribution. But it is just as important that we teach others to create and produce, that we encourage them...
When dreaming is believing: Dreams affect people's judgment, behavior
People who like to nap say it helps them focus their minds post a little shut eye. Now, a study may have found evidence to support that notion.
Our attention is often pulled in too many directions, leaving us feeling overloaded, distracted, chaotic, spread thinly, without focus. So what can you do?
It’s amazing how many people I talk to who tell me they want to create a new blog, write a book, start a new business, change careers, make something new.
Everyone is essentially self-employed -- and that even if you're an employee, you should think of yourself as the President of your own personal services corporation.
Research has highlighted the fact that we have many blind spots when it comes to understanding our patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.
Creativity is often made out to be a nebulous, messy, complicated, difficult thing, and it can be. But it doesn't have to be.
Psychological scientists have found that the size of different parts of people's brains correspond to their personalities; for example, conscientious people tend to have a bigger lateral prefrontal cortex, a region of the brain involved in planning and controlling behavior.
People who look at the past through rose-tinted glasses are happier than those who focus on negative past experiences and regrets.
To truly tap into your creative nature, you only have to realize one thing...
I couldn't motivate myself to do anything important this morning, which is a rare thing for me. I started to doubt myself, and wonder whether anything I do is worthwhile.
Happy individuals are predisposed to seek out and undertake new goals in life and this reinforces positive emotions, say researchers who examined the connections between desirable characteristics, life successes and well-being of over 275,000 people.
The prolific life has been characterized by abundant inventiveness and limitless creativity, and has been enshrouded in a veil of mystery - the sources of artistic inventiveness are too often viewed as out-of-reach for the average person.
When a problem is large or complex and the optimal solution is unclear, here's how to begin making progress towards a solution even though you can’t visualize the entire path.
Unlike with short-term finite goals, the unconscious will continue to positively value objects related to the long-term goals, even after a level of success has been achieved.