ideas for humans

I can recall a few instances where I've put off starting a project because there were too many roadblocks that got in the way. Everyone's been there, when you talk yourself out of doing something. You've quit before you've even started. For example, you may put off...

Searching for that elusive inspiration? You might be stuck in a rut and need to find a way to climb out of it. Maybe there is too much negativity in your life. What kinds of actions can you take to wake up and shake yourself out of hibernation? You can be inspired by...

In the novella The Train Now Departing by Martha Grimes, a woman meets a friend for lunch; he is a travel writer who has been to far-flung locales that the woman only dreams of visiting. She doesn't know why she is friends with him when their conversations are fraught...

Striving for perfection can make you stop before you even start. Everyone has these moments: when the voice inside your head tells you that you are not good enough, or that your efforts will be wasted because you can never achieve what you want in life. Stop listening...

I'm a confirmed night owl and I will wake up early only if I need to. But I am curious. Whether it be myth or fact, most likely you've heard that early birds are more productive and more successful. Is this true? Is it possible to reset my long established patterns of...

In a world that is designed to tap into hyper social interconnectedness, will the solitary individual always be at a disadvantage?

What’s the opposite of a social butterfly? I tried to find an equivalent, pithy analogy that relates sociability to a similar class of arthropods, but the closest I can get to is “unsocial worm”, which might be correct but doesn’t ring true as an apt metaphor.