When a team led by Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman combed through data on thousands of people to discover what factors matter most for success in life, they found that IQ mattered a minuscule one or two percent. What mattered a whole lot more? In a word, personality.
Which might…
Parenting stubborn kids can be, um…. challenging. When you’re trying to explain to your toddler for the umpteenth time why socks are necessary in winter or convince your preschooler that green foods truly aren’t poisonous, you might want to throw up your hands in despair. …
Human beings are not sloths. “We need to move,” Harvard psychiatrist John Ratey has explained. “It’s only 10,000 years ago that we were hunter-gatherers and we moved anywhere from 10 to 14 miles a day.”
Which might sound kind of alarming to you.
Mark Zuckerberg has an adorable white mop named Beast. Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Labradoodle Jeffree is only slightly less fluffy. President Biden has bite-prone Major. Salesforce founder Marc Benioff’s golden retriever Koa actually held the honorary title of “chief love officer” at the company for years. …
Thanks to the likes of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, there is an idea out there that the young are more likely to build ground-breaking businesses. They are full of energy, untainted by cynicism, and generally unencumbered by responsibilities.
Research shows, however, that the average age of founders of successful…
Many of us tend to think of personality traits as either good or bad. Being anxious, for instance, is somewhere between unpleasant and debilitating. Extroversion generally helps people enjoy life and get ahead. But studies suggest things aren’t nearly that simple. …
I generally write about work not food, but there’s a good reason a writer focused on psychology and careers might occasionally cover healthy eating too. What you eat affects your stress levels, your energy, and your productivity. …
Every entrepreneur and hiring manager goes into a job interview looking to hire the best person for the job. The problem is research shows they generally fail spectacularly. One Yale professor has even called job interviews as they’re usually conducted “useless.”
The problem isn’t bad intentions. It’s human fallibility. Study…
The title of this post is a little misleading. Just about any kind of exercise will help spur the growth of new brain cells and make you a little bit smarter, extensive science has shown. So what’s so special about swimming specifically?
That’s the topic of a new, in-depth article…
In life, what our souls tell us to do is often in conflict with what we feel we “should” do. You should find a stable, well-paying job, your parents and teachers tell you, for instance. Meanwhile, your heart tells you that you should be a musician or an entrepreneur. …
Jessica Stillman
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