One of my colleagues used to head to the men’s room and brush his teeth every time he felt a surge of writer’s block. He swears it did the trick. Another exits the building and walks around the block ...

If you groaned when your alarm went off this morning you are not alone. Seventy-eight percent of Americans feel stressed about going to work, according to the latest workforce statistics. So, why not ...

I often have my most useful and unexpected ideas when I'm not trying to be productive. How many times have you seen an important connection or unravelled a stuck problem while in the shower, staring ...

I’ve rarely worked more than 30 hours a week and I’m doing all right, thank you very much. For me personally, the “working too hard” threshold is much lower. In fact, when I’ve tried to focus on my ...

Savoring and gratitude are both forms of directed attention. But in contrast to that type of on-task focus, free-form attention is what the brain defaults to when it’s off-task, allowed to move in any ...

Sometimes your best ideas come when you are goofing off. It was just this kind of procrastination that led to my collaboration with cartoonist Jorge Cham and culminated recently in the publication of ...

Gerry and Lionel were in the same graduate study group. Lionel put in at an extra five or six hours of study a day, while Gerry spent much of his free time relaxing. In terms of intelligence, nobody ...

If you groaned when your alarm went off this morning you are not alone. Seventy-eight percent of Americans feel stressed about going to work, according to the latest workforce statistics. So, why not ...