Decoding You: Why Your Brain Makes You Do What You Do

Ever get that sudden jolt of adrenaline when you hear a loud noise? Or feel inexplicably groggy at 3 PM, no matter how much sleep you got? ...

Believing The Power of The Mind

My book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself is full of data scientifically proving that the mind can heal —...

Death is nothing to fear.

My book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself is full of data scientifically proving that the mind can heal ...

The mind is more powerful than what we yet understand.

My book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself is full of data scientifically proving that the mind can hea...

Martial Arts For Your Mind

Picture yourself with an incredible amount of energy and walking into a room. Do you think people would notice? Of course they would...

The Myth of the 8-hour Sleep

We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night - but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both scienc...

4 Essential Lessons From the Polymaths

In The Medici Effect, there’s a term I’m interested in: the Intersection. It’s a place where ideas and experiences from different fiel...

How To Focus To Maximize Your Potential - Steven Kotler

If you’ve ever entered that state of heightened clarity, focus, and performance, you know that it’s a beautiful thing. Ignite your highes...

Experiencing life with joy - APPRECIATION

Experiencing life is all a matter of perception : physical events exist only in our mental awareness of them. There is a popular Ch’an k...

Don't Let Yourself Down

When was the last time you smiled, not because you felt like it, but just for the sake of smiling? You’d probably do it more often if y...