9 Best Articles in 2021
Harvard Business Review
The Busier You Are, the More You Need Quiet Time
Harvard Business Review
3 min read · 4414 saves · From 2017 · It’s essential for strategic thinking.
The New York Times
Stop Trying to Be Productive
The New York Times
6 min read · 1168 saves · 2020-04-01 · Taylor Lorenz · The internet wants you to believe you aren’t doing enough with all that “extra time” you have now. But staying inside and attending to basic needs is plenty.
LessWrong
100 Tips for a Better Life
LessWrong
9 min read · 1111 saves · 2020-12-23 · The other day I made an advice thread based on Jacobian’s from last year! If you know a source for one of these, shout and I’ll edit it in. Possessions 1 .If you want to find out about people’s…
Entrepreneur
How Reading Books Helps Your Brain Recharge
Entrepreneur
4 min read · 830 saves · 2020-02-14 · It may seem counterintuitive, but absorbing information through old-fashioned books gives your brain a break.
Ness Labs
From FOMO to JOMO: the joy of missing out September 6, 2019 In Mental Health
Ness Labs
5 min read · 675 saves · 2019-09-06 · JOMO—the joy of missing out—is a way to live an intentional life. It’s realising that FOMO is distracting you from your life’s purpose.
New York Magazine
Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours
New York Magazine
20+ min read · 639 saves · From 2016 · An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.
The Cut
How Neuroscientists Explain the Mind-Clearing Magic of Running
The Cut
5 min read · 627 saves · From 2016 · Research in neuroscience shows a solid link between aerobic exercise and cognitive clarity.
The Guardian
The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world
The Guardian
591 saves · From 2018 · Harriet Griffey · We check our phones every 12 minutes, often just after waking up. Always-on behaviour is harmful to long-term mental health, and we need to learn to the hit the pause button
Leo Babauta
Coming Back to Powerful Habits (plus 6 Powerful Habits)
Leo Babauta
3 min read · 513 saves · 2020-02-28 · I was talking with a client about how he felt constantly behind on his email, Slack and other messages and small tasks. I suggested having regular times to do those things: 15 minutes in the morning…
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2 min read · 130 saves · Jan 5th · Practicing mindfulness is not complicated, but it's also not easy.
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2 min read · 114 saves · Jan 11th · Mindfulness has become watered-down in its transfer to the West
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2 min read · 105 saves · Jan 12th · Notifications today impede our focus, get in the way of our plans, cause cognitive overload, and are too often devoid of meaning. Here’s how we can improve.
Lifehack
8 Simple Ways To Be Mindful At Work For Better Focus
Lifehack
6 min read · 50 saves · Jan 11th · Focusing can be very hard to do when you are surrounded by so many distractions. Here are 8 ways you can be more mindful at work and more focused.
Psychology Today
How Mindfulness Can Improve Relationships
Psychology Today
1 min read · 49 saves · Jan 8th · New research shows how 10 minutes of mindfulness can help a relationship.
Brain Pickings
Child of Glass: A Soulful Italian Illustrated Meditation on How to Live with Our Human Fragility
Brain Pickings
3 min read · 47 saves · Jan 6th · Maria Popova · A subtle celebration of the terrifying tenderness that makes life barely survivable but also makes it worth living.
