In our society, memory lapses are considered embarrassing character flaws and the term “senior moment” has been coined to make a mockery of them. But hold on here: isn’t it good to forget things? After all, most of the stimulus we take into our brains is not worthy of our attention in the first place. […]
The ritual of playing a joke or spreading a hoax on April Fool’s Day is all well and good. But the merriest of pranksters know that returning to the narrow confines of “good behavior” for the other 364 days of the year completely misses the point. The wise among us realize that our foolish nature […]
When you smile, don’t hold back. Show as many teeth as you can. See if the observer can count at least half your teeth when you beam at them. A smile is infectious. But rather than a nasty virus, you’re spreading mirth and merriment.* And if you can smile even in the worst of circumstances, […]
Sleep science is all the rage, along with bespoke mattress companies, open-cell, poly-foam pillow design, and the promise that melatonin will lure you gently into that good night, minus the hallucination and hangover of pharmaceuticals. Yet your subconscious couldn’t care less about the new sleep sound machine you’ve configured to “relaxing rainforest.” Once you start […]
Routines can be mind-numbing. So why start your day with one? Why not wake up at a different time on Monday than you do on Wednesday? It doesn’t always have to be 6:45 am. Why not 5:00 am tomorrow? And 7:30 am the next? What about getting up at 4:00 am and seeing what’s going […]
No one knows how much time they have on earth. We act as if we must take care of ourselves so we can live to be 100. But how many of us make it to that age? And do you really want to? Maybe it’s time to wake up and reshuffle the deck. Starting with […]