Maintaining an interest in the goals you pursue can improve your work and reduce burnout, according to research from Duke University.
Research led by a leading expert on the positive benefits of napping suggests that Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep enhances creative problem-solving.
Unconscious motivation plays a substantial role in how we respond to challenges. Find out how much.
The people around you dictate your success. They can also forecast our failure.
We all know that getting a good night's sleep is good for our general health and well-being. But new research is highlighting a more surprising benefit of good sleep: more feelings of gratitude for relationships.
Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
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...
A researcher has found that the specific colors used in a company’s logo have a significant impact on how that logo, and the brand as a whole, is viewed by consumers.
Educators have tried to boost learning by focusing on differences in learning styles. Management consultants tout the impact that different...
Procrastination is in all of us, and one of the best ways to procrastinate is to do all the busy-work that makes us feel like we’re doing stuff -- while not doing the stuff we know we should be doing.
Employees who pursue creative activities outside of work may find that these activities boost their performance on the job.
This checklist by Dr María Machón includes typical triggers for procrastination, along with possible solutions for each trigger.
Multitaskers who think they can successfully divide their attention between the program on their television set and the information on their computer screen proved to be driven to distraction by the two devices.
Trying to resist that late-night tweet or checking your work email again?
Looking for a good book? Stay away from the award-winning section of the bookstore or library.
Often we're discouraged because of some tough challenge or obstacle in our way. But a shift in mindset, courtesy of a Zen proverb, can change everything: The obstacle is the path.
The paradox of happiness is that chasing it may actually make us less happy, a Stanford researcher says.
We all have days when we’re just not very inspired, when we need passion and creativity breathed into us.
Sometimes you need to become unbalanced in order to get things done. If you’re working on a book, launching a business or trying to overhaul some part of your life, you can probably relate.
Researchers had students think up solutions to problems while acting out various metaphors about creative thinking - and found that the instructions actually worked.
You win some, you lose some. Such are life's ups and downs.
While some psychologists still argue that people perform better when they do something because they want to, research suggests we shouldn't even make that distinction.
A study has found that you are more likely to perform well if you do not think too hard, and instead trust your instincts.
Little research exists in the area of self-talk, although internal dialogue often influences the way people motivate and shape their own behavior.
It's often said that women can have it all - motherhood and a career. But a study suggests that women who rule the household have less energy for or interest in being a rising star in the workplace.
People who watch funny videos on the internet at work aren't necessarily wasting time.
Can money make us happy if we spend it on the right purchases?
Backpackers scored 50 percent better on a creativity test after spending four days in nature disconnected from electronic devices, according to a study by psychologists from the University of Utah and University of Kansas.
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.
When people feel they’ve hit a roadblock in reaching a personal goal, such as losing weight, a change in perspective...