by Harold Taylor | Jul 8, 2016 | Holistic Time Management, The Brain
A smiley tacked onto the end of an email message or social media post will never replace a good old-fashioned hug. According to an Associated Press article in the July 16, 2016 issue of Telegraph Journal.com, people in America spent an average of 10 hours, 39 minutes...
by Harold Taylor | Jun 28, 2016 | General Time Management, The Brain
Our brain prefers to work on brief projects as opposed to longer ones; battles are invigorating; but wars are exhausting. Chunking and batching make longer tasks more doable. David J Levitin, author of The organized mind, says that “working in chunks gives a...
by Harold Taylor | Jun 21, 2016 | Technology, The Brain
According to Gayatri Devi, author of A Calm Brain (Plume, 2012), your core brain has the ability to quickly and accurately read and respond to the emotions of others. Your rational frontal lobes may be fooled by polite laughter or phony tears or any false display of...
by Harold Taylor | Jun 14, 2016 | General Time Management, The Brain
Whether we were made from clay by the hand of God or whether we evolved from single-celled organisms who somehow made themselves from clay long after a Big Bang, it does not change the reality of how our body, brain and mind currently interact. One thing seems...
by Harold Taylor | Jun 2, 2016 | General Time Management, Technology, The Brain
Always check email in the morning. My apologies to Julie Morgenstern, for the contradiction to her excellent book’s title, “Never check email in the morning,” but I am now convinced this is not the best strategy. For years I have been telling people that checking...
by Harold Taylor | May 10, 2016 | Holistic Time Management, The Brain
Listen to what your brain is telling you. Strong friendships give both your physical and mental health a boost. The February, 2014 issue of Scientific American Mind reported on a quantitative review of numerous studies, concluding that having few friends is the...
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