Tactics to Spark Creativity – WSJ.com

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I admire creative people – especially the ones who constantly come up with brilliant ideas with seemingly little effort. It turns out more of us possess the potential for creative thinking than we give ourselves credit for. Do your best ideas come to you in the middle of the night or first thing in the [...]

Video Showing the Huge Gap Between Super Rich and Everyone

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While the earnings of the top 1 percent have tripled, the average household income has effectively stagnated. Put another way, there’s a reason Americans haven’t saved: they haven’t had much money to save. In terms of information, Politizane’s video isn’t offering anything new: Its analysis of American perceptions of wealth distribution, the line between rich [...]

Amazing: Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin – in the same voice

  Microsoft has today posted a video, and complementary explanation of language translation that goes far past what we thought was currently possible. In the video, the speaker explains and demonstrates improvements made to the machine understanding of his English words, which are automatically transcribed as he speaks. He then demonstrates having those words translated [...]

Limbic Revision: How Love Rewires the Brain

:: by Maria Popova On the capacity for transformation and its prerequisite of letting go. “Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.” A General Theory of Love is one of 5 favorite books on the psychology of love and the kind of read you keep coming back to [...]

The secret of Millenary comfort of Ancient Romans shoes: Licina, Urbisaglia

What did the ancient Romans wear on their feet? That’s what Anna asked herself. Drawing on stimuli from the impressive Roman ruins of “Urbs Salvia”, she tried to find an answer taking into consideration the fact that the Romans covered far more ground on foot compared with most people these days. In order to walk [...]

Discover Hope

There are times in my life that I am just hurting. I can’t find the words to say how I’m feeling. So I just yell out to God and beg Him to hear without the words. And you know what, He always does. If there is something that you are struggling with, something that you [...]

How to Use Running to Inspire Creativity for Your Business

Looking for inspiration for that next big idea or blog post? Look no further than out your front door. Just a half hour of exercise can boost creativity for hours. So fire up your favorite Pandora station, lace up your running shoes, and go! Here’s why exercise, specifically running, inspires creativity:   After reading Newsweek’s [...]

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21 Tools to Unlock Your Creative Genius

It’s hard to stay actively creative, especially when our daily lives are so mentally stimulating already. I know I’ve come home from work, done some laundry, drowned in reddit, and collapsed into sleep because I thought my mental capacity had been met for the evening. Maintaining creativity is often the biggest roadblock for those creating [...]

Developing Charisma – Increasing Your Influence in the Workplace

Have you ever worked with a very charismatic leader? If so, then it’s likely that almost everyone in the organization liked, trusted, and admired this person. People listened when she talked, colleagues supported her ideas, and talented people wanted to join her team. In short, everyone wanted to be around this person!   Charisma is [...]

5 Ways To Spark Your Creativity

Inspiration may seem rare, but you might be able to increase the odds of having a genius moment. Research points to some surprisingly simple triggers of innovation: taking a shower, living in a far-off land or working in a blue room.   Mood matters when it comes to creativity. Anxiety focuses a person, but good [...]

A richer life by seeing the glass half full

Personal Health: How to define optimism, put it into practice and enjoy its benefits.   NOT JUST ABOUT BEING POSITIVE   Murphy’s Law — “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong” — is the antithesis of optimism. In a book called “Breaking Murphy’s Law,” Suzanne C. Segerstrom, a professor of psychology at the University [...]