Healthy Mind Heart Body

Category: mind

  • Keep Your Brain Active During the Long Summer Months

    You’ve taken your last final, settled back into your old room at your parents’ house and now you’re ready for three months of uninterrupted sleep and doing whatever you want. If your parents insist you get a summer job (come on, slacker!) maybe you’re headed back to whatever retail position you held in high school,…

  • Procrastinate Smarter at Work

    Multitasking makes us more stupid. Studies show it. In fact, The University of Utah claims that using a cell phone while driving reduces reaction time by just as much if the driver had a blood alcohol level of at least .08%. While there’s enough evidence to support that multitasking hinders more than it helps, there…

  • Three Minute Philosophy: Rene Descartes [video] (explicit)

  • Does your brain burn more calories when you think really hard?

    In most cases, deep thought and concentration do not burn tons more calories than routine brain activity. But if we think we’ve worn out our brains, we will feel exhausted anyways. I’m thoroughly disappointed. All this time aggressively thinking while sitting on my butt in my cubicle doing nothing, no wonder I don’t look like…

  • Getting Your Masters in Finance: Not a Boring Experience!

    Getting Your Masters in Finance: Not a Boring Experience! When you choose to go after a graduate degree, you have almost as many choices about what to study as you did when pursuing your undergraduate degree – especially in the realm of business. From economics to marketing, you can choose to study almost any aspect…

  • Careers That Will Keep You Challenged

    Is it time to choose a career path? Are you bored with your current career, and seeking a change? One of the major reasons that many people are dissatisfied with their work is that they don’t feel challenged. Performing the same tedious tasks day in and day out with little possibility of advancement within or…