Workplace stress and mental well-being of employees has been a key issue that is being addressed by employers. Workplace anxiety causes low productivity in

Even though kids these days are spending more and more times staring into their phones, television screen time is still a dominant source of entertainment for kids 2-11 years old. But the way most …

January 2006To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We've got it down to four words: "Do what you love." But it's not enough just to tell people that. Doing what you…

Chances are you’ve experienced the following: You’re with a small group of friends at a nice restaurant. Everyone is enjoying the food and conversation when someone decides to take out his phone…

My taxi pulled up to the hotel. I got out my credit card and prepared to pay for the ride. The journey was pleasant enough but little did I know I was about to encounter a bit of psychological…

Want to learn how to stay focused at work and in life? Use this guide and learn tools and strategies to become indistractable!

If you tied a rope tight around the Earth’s equator and then added a single yard of slack, would the extra material make any noticeable difference to someone standing on the ground? Yes, actually. The…

In this talk, I describe a new model for managing distraction — how to become 'Indistractable.'I'll write more on this topic in the coming months and I'm finishing a book with the same title. I'd…

How To Avoid The Unintended Consequences Of The “One Metric That Matters”

Data has long been lauded as a competitive moat for companies, and that narrative’s been further hyped with the recent wave of AI startups. Network effects have been similarly promoted as a defensi…

People may be born into lucky situations, but they aren't born lucky. Turns out the old aphorism is true: Research shows that people make their own luck. And they do it in a specific way: by adhering…

By Aline Holzwarth When Isaac Newton put forth the three laws of motion more than three hundred years ago, he did something radical. It wasn’t his theories or the computations behind them that were so…

Machine learning, meet behavioral science.

Uber's business model is incredibly simple: It's a platform that facilitates exchanges between people. And Uber's been incredibly successful at it, almost eliminating the transaction costs of doing…

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon were able to decode when people wearing an LG watch were scrolling on their phones, typing, or washing their hands.

We're all limited by time. Learn simple ways you can eliminate distractions and accomplish the things you set out to do.

Think business is all about rational thought and logic? Think again -- and to find the biggest, best ideas, start thinking way outside the box.

Nir’s Note: Gad Saad is a professor of marketing at Concordia University and the author of The Consuming Instinct. He’ll be speaking at the upcoming Habit Summit in April. (You can register here!)…

“Nearly everyone I know is addicted in some measure to the Internet,” wrote Tony Schwartz in a recent essay in The New York Times. It’s a common complaint these days. A steady stream of similar…

Prompts and rewards can help patients stick to their treatments.

Nir's Note: Jonah Berger is a marketing professor at the Wharton School and author of the New York Times bestseller Contagious: Why Things Catch On. Contagious explains the science behind word of…

While asking this question won’t change your life, it can help pause your inner critic and create space for possibility, says therapist Susan Henkels.

My latest video overview of the 'Hook Model'