Ideas

Want to how to increase willpower to avoid a temptation or to start a new, positive habit? Here's a helpful science backed tool.

"Kaizen" is a process of continuous improvement."Kaizen" don't expect miracles to happen in a single day, it expects you to do something better today than yesterday and there is no end for the process of this improvement.

Maslow's Hierarchy, (or Pyramid), of Needs is one of the central ideas in modern economics and sociology. The work of a once little-known American psychologi...

What if you knew what your coworkers really thought about you and what they were really like? Ray Dalio makes the business case for using radical transparency and algorithmic decision-making to create an idea meritocracy where people can speak up and say what they really think -- even calling out the boss is fair game. Learn more about how these strategies helped Dalio create one of the world's most successful hedge funds and how you might harness the power of data-driven group…

More and more people worldwide are living in countries not considered their own. Writer Pico Iyer -- who himself has three or four “origins” -- meditates on the meaning of home, the joy of traveling and the serenity of standing still.

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Willpower is not the limited resource we once thought it was. A simple attitude-hack is all that stands between you and endless motivation

A school project made together with Mia Makkonen, Lara Stenius and Elina Pätsi in 2015. Aid for designers for using standards in product / service design Our brief was to design a new tool for desi…

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Do you think multitasking makes you more productive? Think again. Discover why multitasking can impair efficiency and even hurt brain health.

Judea Pearl, a pioneering figure in artificial intelligence, argues that AI has been stuck in a decades-long rut. His prescription for progress? Teach machines to understand the question why.

With governments increasingly focused on building a STEM pipeline, they are potentially excluding those with the backgrounds required to maximize the benefits of technology.

For these VR gamers, the more immersive the experience, the greater the thrill.

The defiant image of “Tank Man” is one of the most enduring photographs ever taken. In the aftermath of the Cold War, right as communism began to fall in Central and Eastern Europe, protests and

Nobody writes the wild like Barry Lopez. More specifically, nobody writes of how the wild entangles us, teaches us, is threatened by us and can care for us, like him. His 1986 book Arctic Dreams…

Partners in Health wants to rebuild entire countries’ medical systems, and bring health care to some of the poorest people on earth.