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The Most Beautiful Minds In America: This Is What Age 75 Looks Like

Posted 04.23.2012

Last year, the National Center for Creative Aging and supplement maker life'sDHA™ invited adults 55 and older to submit an essay or video describing...

NASA Crowd-Sources New Name For Space Probes

Posted 01.18.2012

NASA may have been able to send a man to the moon and a car-sized rover to Mars, but when it came to naming their new Lunar probes, they had to turn t...

Healing and Optimal Performance

Joseph Bobrow | Posted 03.13.2012

Joseph Bobrow

At the outset of World War II, the British Ministry of Information came up with the slogan "Keep Calm and Carry On" for a poster designed to allay the fear that Germany would invade Great Britain. My friend, a commander serving in Afghanistan, uses it for his signature line.

The Creative 'Flow': How To Enter That Mysterious State Of Oneness

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 01.25.2012

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.

Since flow is so essential to creativity and well-being across many slices of life, it's important that we learn more about the characteristics associated with flow so that we may learn how to tap into this mental resource.

'Flow' And Psychosis In The Artist's Experience

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.

New research suggests that some mental mechanisms and dispositions that are associated with full-blown psychosis may confer tremendous advantages to flow, creativity and what makes life meaningful.

Leadership: How To Listen To Your Inner Compass

Paul David Walker | Posted 11.17.2011

Paul David Walker

The flows of cause and effect move events, stimulate ideas, and drive consumer wants and needs because everything is connected.

Why Are Most People Not Happy?

Paul David Walker | Posted 11.17.2011

Paul David Walker

We live in a world that is beautiful beyond description, yet most of us only glimpse this beauty occasionally. Why?

2011: The Year of Curiosity

Chip Conley | Posted 05.25.2011

Chip Conley

'Tis the time of the year to reflect and project. I'm going to take my cue from the most famous management theorist of all time, Peter Drucker, adopt two practices into my professional and personal life.

Suez's Attempts to Silence Critics on Par with its Water Management: A Failure

Wenonah Hauter | Posted 05.25.2011

Wenonah Hauter

Water justice advocates around the world cheered recently when a French court rejected a defamation lawsuit brought by Suez Water against the makers of the documentary film Flow.

Leadership Insights: Sail Away From Your Shores

Paul David Walker | Posted 11.17.2011

Paul David Walker

Sail away from the shores you created for security before they enslave you. Ride the wind out into the ocean of the unknown, and come back and make a report. If you stay on safe shores, you will never discover new worlds.

Leadership Insights: Eliminate Endless Circular Arguments

Paul David Walker | Posted 11.17.2011

Paul David Walker

Some leaders spend much of their time arguing and persuading their teams of the right direction, and others radiate a humble confidence that attracts ...

Getting Permission to Flow

Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 11.17.2011

Arjuna Ardagh

Your feelings are beautiful, they are your gift to all of us. They bring color and texture to man's world, which can so often be gray and burdensome.

Living Downwind from the Flower Shop

Chip Conley | Posted 05.25.2011

Chip Conley

Philosopher William James once wrote that self-esteem could be distilled down to an equation: success in life divided by expectations.

Yoga and Recovery: The Next Level!

Tommy Rosen | Posted 11.17.2011

Tommy Rosen

Nearly one year ago, I started teaching Yoga For Recovery from addiction on Friday nights at 7:45pm at YogaCo. Each Yoga For Recovery class is one pa...

The Surprising First Three Steps to a Successful Career Change

Tara Sophia Mohr | Posted 11.17.2011

Tara Sophia Mohr

You know the traditional tasks you've been told to do before embarking on a job search or a career change. Halt. Don't go there. You aren't ready, yet.

What Really Matters?

Eliezer Sobel | Posted 11.17.2011

Eliezer Sobel

Which weighs more on the What Really Matters scale, a life of selfless, loving service to loved ones, or a couple of published books? How do we measure the value of our time?

The Ground Of Being, Soul, Genius And Life

Paul David Walker | Posted 11.17.2011

Paul David Walker

When my life is working at a level of genius, I seem to be dancing with the flow of a spherical energy. The challenge is, how do I get back to this feeling, or deepen a great feeling?

Question for BP and the MMS - What is the Real Flow From the Blowout?

Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert L. Cavnar

After viewing the subsea videos of BP's blowout well last night, I am renewing my question to BP and the MMS... What is the real flow from the well?

More On The Bridges From Love To Fear

Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 11.17.2011

Srinivasan Pillay

hese are just some of the many reasons that love can turn to fear, but if we look at these more deeply, how can we think about them? And what can we do about them?

Twitter vs. the Real World

Elissa Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Elissa Stein

There are moments of connection, of kindred souls flirting, exchanging ideas, empathy, support, anger. And then, it's over. They disappear. Sometimes for awhile, sometimes forever.

One Nice, Simple Way to Find Your Center

Margaret Ruth | Posted 11.17.2011

Margaret Ruth

Even if you have not attained perfect inner harmony, there is something to be gained from finding out what is going on with you at your core.

6 Ways to Flow Like Bo: Learn About Creativity and Joy from First Puppy Bo Obama

Janice Taylor | Posted 11.17.2011

Janice Taylor

Bo Obama, the first puppy, rollicks on the White House lawn in a natural state of joy and exuberance with complete abandon; essentially in a constant state of Flow!

Greening Hollywood: EcoTainment, Creating Good Content About Doing Good

Paige Donner | Posted 05.25.2011

Paige Donner

This year's highlight of the Hollywood Goes Green Summit was the speaker panel on EcoTainment. I was asked to and had the honor of moderating this panel of informed creatives.

For Love Of Water -- An Interview With Director Irena Salina

Asher Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Asher Goldstein

This eye-opening documentary, explores the intricacies of the global water crisis and how this crisis is related to the booming privatization of water sources the world over.

Greening Hollywood: For Love Of Water

Paige Donner | Posted 05.25.2011

Paige Donner

Crowning the first-ever Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles, L.A.'s premier "green" and sustainable film festival - was Sunday night's open air scree...