Willpower

Women: Sleep Might Improve Your Willpower

newsweek.com | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living


Your head says it's time to lose a few pounds, but your hand reaches for another cookie. Why is it that even when we want to be good, we end up being ...

Marshmallow Test VIDEO: A Reenactment Of Walter Mischel's Child Psychology Test

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.18.2009 | Home


In the late 1960s, psychologist Walter Mischel performed a series of tests on preschoolers referred to as The Marshmallow Tests. Mischel would give a...

Public Libraries: Community-Based Health Clubs for the Brain

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 08.08.2009 | Living


Alvaro Fernandez

Libraries are taking on a new mission to help promote cognitive health in their communities and using the concept of brain fitness.

Willpower Doesn't Exist: The New Way to Get Stuff Done

Dr. Alex Benzer | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living


Dr. Alex Benzer

In a passage from Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus and his ship are about to pass through the Siren-infested waters. On the one hand, he knows that hearing ...

Success in the Shadows

Jim Randel | Posted 05.02.2009 | Business


Jim Randel

Those who are prepared to struggle in the shadows, when it is hard to see the light, are those most likely to find success in their chosen endeavor.

RESOLUTIONS

Jim Randel | Posted 02.07.2009 | Business


Jim Randel

Today being the first real business day of the New Year, I am writing this e-letter about New Year's resolutions - those commitments of resolve we fin...

The Positive Effects of A Bad Economy

Karen Salmansohn | Posted 11.07.2008 | Living


Karen Salmansohn

I always love to find good news in bad news. And so I was happy to hear that there's a positive perk in learning how to restrain one's spending -- how...