Smart habits, lifehacks, hobbies and motivations
In both professional and social settings, being asked to share a fun fact about yourself is a common icebreaker that can feel unexpectedly challenging. Crafting an engaging and memorable response, especially on the spot, can leave a lasting impression and serve as a gateway to more meaningful interactions. When done well, a fun fact highlights …
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How Teachers Foster Problem-Solving in Young People At all ages, children face puzzles to challenge their agility, reason, and capacity for thinking outside the box. But the world today operates at a greater pace, and problems become more complicated quickly. What students are supposed to learn is not only to remember but also how to …
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Have you ever found yourself dreaming while you’re dreaming? This experience, known as lucid dreaming, has fascinated scientists and dreamers for decades. Although some people experience it spontaneously, inducing it in a controlled manner has, until now, been a challenge reserved for laboratory settings. Recently, a team of researchers has developed an innovative mobile …
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Parenting today is not what it used to be. Parents are struggling to balance their careers, stress, digital distractions, high academic expectations, and rapidly evolving technology while striving to raise grounded, emotionally healthy, and successful children. Children do not simply develop productivity, focus, or discipline. That’s something you work at out of intention, repeatedly and …
Life is a journey filled with opportunities, challenges, and decisions. At the heart of this journey lies the universal desire for happiness, peace, and fulfillment. Yet, achieving these goals is often fraught with trials that test our resilience and wisdom. While personal experience is a valuable teacher, it is neither the only nor the most …
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Suppose you are an ambidextrous writer, who loves the look and feel of fountain pens. Choosing your pen, ink, and paper is not a trivial thing. I will share some of my own experiences. Tradeoffs The main reason to use a fountain pen is a totally customizable writing experience. If you do not write much …
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My wife recently told me “You have everything to be happy. I would expect you to be happier. Why aren’t you?”. The theme of today’s post is balancing ambition with satisfaction. Ambition is good It is probably good to have ambitions. Otherwise, we would not do anything worthwhile. A person who has high ambitions is more …
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This was never a secret, but now it is official: millennials are the most stressed age group out there. Financial concerns are a viable reason to be stressed. High college loans and uncertainty regarding future employment, fear of taking mortgage to buy your own apartment, rising social gaps… There is no safe financial haven for …
Comics heroes often discover their greatest strength once they hit the bottom. Sometimes it feels this way to real people. We can transform our depression and confusion into creative breakthroughs and a surge of motivation. Each time we do not feel that good with ourselves we can reframe that into a motivational moment. You may …
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Happiness is the holy grail of many people on the path of self-improvement. It is probably the hardest of all goals and the progress to it is counterintuitive. There are many things that do not make us happy, despite our highest hopes. Maybe it is beneficial to talk about them. For more reading, I refer …