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Thinking You Can Win

Garret Kramer | Posted 05.14.2013 | Healthy Living
Garret Kramer

Are you convinced that in order to succeed at anything, you must think the right types of thoughts? As a result, do you often try to fix your thinking? If so, what you're actually doing is thwarting the success you want so badly.

My No. 1 Tip for Solving Problems

Debbie Woodbury | Posted 05.02.2013 | Healthy Living
Debbie Woodbury

Is something bothering you? Put it down, give it a break, walk away and forget about it -- for now. Trust your higher consciousness to keep working on a solution.

The Singapore Diaries... Part I

Tarun Sakhrani | Posted 04.16.2013 | Travel
Tarun Sakhrani

My earliest memories of Singapore date back to the early '90s when I took my first trip there with my parents. I still have the (scary) memory of the cab driver warning us about littering or jaywalking.

Thinking Outside of the Box Is Vital for Success

Jay Weston | Posted 03.27.2013 | Los Angeles
Jay Weston

Thinking outside of the box, you will find greater success and happiness in your work and life.

Inside the Box

David Sable | Posted 04.29.2013 | Media
David Sable

Prove to me that you are thinking in The Box before you trumpet what you have discovered outside of it.

An Economy of Thought

Amitai Shenhav | Posted 04.02.2013 | Science
Amitai Shenhav

Psychologists Wouter Kool and Matthew Botvinick have provided exciting new evidence for a principle that has been referred to as the "law of least mental effort" -- they have shown that individuals treat mental effort very similarly to how they treat physical effort.

Contemplation: A Healthy State of Mind

Wray Herbert | Posted 03.25.2013 | Science
Wray Herbert

Many people do not have a scale, and what's more, do not want one. Or if they have one, they never use it. There are many explanations for such avoidance.

Don't Believe Everything You Think

Brian D. Cohen | Posted 03.06.2013 | Arts
Brian D. Cohen

If you don't question yourself you'll have what the world rightly considers disorganized, magical, or delusional thinking, or not really thinking at all. Thinking is like believing, but sieved through observation, trial, questioning, and doubt.

Rid The Personal Put-Downs That Live In Your Head: Here's How

Tommy Rosen | Posted 02.16.2013 | Healthy Living
Tommy Rosen

The loving, consistent support of family and friends is part of the reason people find peace and happiness in this life. It makes sense that we have to exorcise from our mind-body system the negative words left there by others.

The Problem-Solving Fast Track

Garret Kramer | Posted 02.12.2013 | Business
Garret Kramer

We live in a thought-created reality, not a circumstance-created reality. Therefore, it makes little sense to think more about a problem that is the result of too much thinking to begin with.

How Technology Is Changing the Way Children Think and Focus

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 02.02.2013 | Parents
Dr. Jim Taylor

Technological development is shaping the way we think. The uncertain reality is that we have neither the benefit of historical hindsight nor the time to ponder or examine the value and cost of these advancements in terms of how it influences our children's ability to think.

Digital Fire: Northwest Voices in the Arts, Books, and Business on Reinvention

Russell C. Smith | Posted 12.22.2012 | Impact
Russell C. Smith

The topic of reinvention is everywhere in American culture. Cultural shifts and economic forces have affected artists and entrepreneurs, people on the street and people in high-rise towers.

On Rediscovering Your True Self

Gangaji | Posted 12.08.2012 | Healthy Living
Gangaji

In not knowing, just for a moment, you can directly discover yourself. This discovery does not arrive by thought, but by your own immediate direct experience. What is here, before every thought, after every thought and during every thought?

100 Reasons Why You Don't Get Your Best Ideas at Work

Mitch Ditkoff | Posted 11.26.2012 | Business
Mitch Ditkoff

Since 1986, I've asked more than 10,000 people where and when they get their best ideas. Less than 2% have said "the workplace." Based on my 25 years of working with a ton of innovation-seeking organizations, here's my take on why.

Cara Santa Maria

Why Is Thinking So Hard?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 08.23.2012 | Science

2012-08-23-Capture.JPG I was asked to join HuffPost Live Host/Producer Josh Zepps for a conversation about critical thinking. How can we teach this precious skill to students?

Solving For X, Among the Neurons

Wray Herbert | Posted 09.26.2012 | Science
Wray Herbert

The reigning theory of human thinking argues not only that algebra and language share a neurological foundation, but that mathematical reasoning co-opted the evolved machinery of language for non-linguistic tasks.

The Need for Silence

Terry Newell | Posted 09.11.2012 | Home
Terry Newell

We have filled our lives with sound, and we are often richer for it. Yet, like any strength pushed too far, our love affair with sounds can become a weakness.

The Lost Art of Letter Writing

Andrew Lam | Posted 07.24.2012 | Home
Andrew Lam

In this age of mobility and information, there simply isn't any time for such a thing as a long, flowing, hand-written letter.

Creativity, Persistence and Working Memory

Art Markman, Ph.D. | Posted 07.16.2012 | Science
Art Markman, Ph.D.

Working memory capacity is the amount of information that people can hold in mind at once. All of us have a relatively limited amount of information we can think about at any one time, but there are differences between people in the size of working memory.

Clipped and Trimmed: The Conformity of Human Perceptions

Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D. | Posted 07.10.2012 | Healthy Living
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.

It can be said that society "clips and trims" the human mind -- our daily consciousness and perceptions -- in order to form a general consensus in thinking.

How Letting Go Of Your Fears Can Help Form Genuine Connections

Ira Israel | Posted 07.05.2012 | Healthy Living
Ira Israel

I hope that all of us can be brave enough in the future to release our fears and set examples of peace, love, understanding, and authentic eyeball-to-eyeball communications and connections that others will want to emulate.

The Inner Compass of Being

William Horden | Posted 07.03.2012 | Healthy Living
William Horden

Is there an inner compass we can trust to guide our steps to an enduring sense of well-being in these turbulent times?

I'm an Idiot

Ira Israel | Posted 06.30.2012 | Healthy Living
Ira Israel

I never realized what an idiot I was until I started meditating. Let me rephrase that: I never realized how limited my mind was until I tried practicing mindfulness meditation.

Going Inside: Direct Experience Is Like a True Kiss

Gangaji | Posted 03.25.2012 | Healthy Living
Gangaji

To consciously choose to be without thought is the gateway to direct experience. If we are bound to our thinking process for our reference points of reality, we will ask only those questions guaranteed to keep attention on analysis, cause and effect and conceptual evaluation.

Allowing for Synchronicity During These Times of Upheaval

Vivian Norris | Posted 03.10.2012 | Home
Vivian Norris

"... They are finding that the isolation and separation of objects from each other is more apparent than real; at deeper levels, everything --atoms,...