Learning to Love a Job You Hate

April 10, 2013

 

The downturn of the last few years has left a number of scars on the psyche of the American worker. The Great Recession toppled a number of business giants; and while some were deemed “too big to fail” many titans … Continue reading →

 

 

Your Career and Happiness

April 9, 2013

 

The early study of psychology was a pretty bleak affair. True to its desire to be a medical profession (and thus, taken seriously) psychology began by studying pathology. From these days we get many of the terms we know associate … Continue reading →

 

 

Confirmation Bias and the Importance of Asking, “Why Might I Be Wrong?”

March 18, 2013

 

Gentle reader, Although we’ve not likely had the opportunity to meet yet, I feel as though I know you. In fact, I feel like I know you well enough to make some suppositions about your personality preferences. Let me give … Continue reading →

 

 

3 Tips for Effective Delegation

February 20, 2013

 

Our survey of recommendations and pointers concerning time management would not be complete if we did not cast our glance in one final direction—toward delegation. Perhaps I’m alone in this, but delegation has always felt like a foreign and distant … Continue reading →

 

 

Tips for Managing Your Physical Environment

February 18, 2013

 

The Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University have made a rather interesting discovery this past year, which is reported in full in the Journal of Neuroscience. Their findings in brief: top-down attention is constrained by the output of bottom-up processes, such … Continue reading →