The Brain

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Thinking your way to a better brain (John Dewey on how we think)Thomas Oppong

The more knowledge you cultivate, the better you’ll become at thinking about it. Read More

Does Einstein’s brain (and his mind) have anything to teach us?Ladders Contributor

Einstein encountered more than a few bumps in the road, but he most certainly made his way to Scientific Valhalla. Read More

How To

How to get precisely what you want Benjamin P. Hardy

If you act as if what you want will be yours — no matter how big — that action will be bold and powerful. Read More

Health

Study: Exercise, eating healthily could improve thinking skills Alexandra Villarreal

The study measured how people with cognitive impairments reacted to an aerobic exercise routine or diet over a six-month period. Read More

How To

How to use fear to your advantage Christopher D. Connors

Our quest is to learn how this lifelong adversary and friend can both spur us on, and tear us apart. Think of what an education in life really means. Read More

Health

Why your brain never runs out of problems to find Ladders Contributor

How can you know if you’re making progress solving a problem, when you keep redefining what it means to solve it? Here is why this behavior happens. Read More

Advice

This is how ideas happen Todd Brison

But how is an idea conceived? It’s a fair question. It’s also one with an obvious answer. Here is how a really great idea actually comes about. Read More

How To

How to know when holiday drinking is hurting your brain Ladders Contributor

Because binge drinkers’ brains feel intense pleasure from alcohol, there is a powerful motivation to binge drink again and again. Read More

How To

From FEAR to DARE: How to improve your ‘change-fitness’Gustavo Razzetti

Becoming more open-minded is a counterintuitive mental exercise — to increase your change-fitness, you have to train your mind first. Read More

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