Mary Martin
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Better health through mindfulness
today.rowan.edu
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More than taking up time, these high-functioning, high-achieving people have found that mindfulness practice creates time.” One executive shared that it yielded the greatest ROI he’s ever seen.
Jenna Abdou • We lose 50% of our time together from distraction. These neuroscience-backed practices will help you reclaim it
Physically speaking, humans are a middling mammal with an odd hair pattern, a badly evolved back, and a mouth that no longer fits all our adult teeth. All of which is why we really like brains.
Abigail Desmond & Michael Haslam • What Is Intelligent Life?
we’d argue that if you produce something iconic, you can create a cultural moment that ripples through people’s crowded psyches and impacts them deeply. And if you’re culturally and commercially successful, it paves the way for future experiments: it becomes easier to both sell tickets and sell ideas to potential clients.
Olivia Squire • 7 Ways To Make An Iconic Experience In 2024 — WXO
When the mind searches for the future, it sees the past.
Sohail Inayatullah • Foresight in Challenging Environments * Journal of Futures Studies
As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender. When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the
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Is it more important to reform existing social networks or to work to build new ones?
Ethan Zuckerman • 🐾 a Social Network Taxonomy.
taxonomy.
when an army of trauma counsellors descended upon the nation after the tsunami of 2004, the University of Colombo pleaded with them to cease seeing suffering as traumatisation as it was undermining people’s resilience. Sri Lanka happens to top the charts for wellbeing in the ‘The Mental State of the World in 2023’ report despite such denial of the... See more