Thinking Clearly and Analytically

We rarely discuss intuition at work, often because of its woo-woo connotations. But it can help you innovate on the job and navigate your career. Here’s how, according to researchers.

Just in time for International Left-Handers Day 2022, we look at recent research about how brain symmetry differs between righties and lefties.

Motivated reasoning can lead people to believe everything’s fine despite evidence to the contrary. Here’s how to counter emotions with facts.

Adults who frequently engage in cognitively stimulating activities report stronger memory and thinking skills, and better health, an AARP survey says.

If we are going to tackle humanity's biggest long-term challenges, we will need to use our unrivaled ability to think long-term. Understanding how we developed this ability can help us use it to its full potential.

In 2020 an extraordinary video went viral. It featured Marta Cinta González Saldaña, a former ballet dancer suffering from severe Alzheimer’s disease in her senior years. In the video, Saldaña is played a piece from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and suddenly she flashes awake and begins moving to a dance…

'We are obsessed with the idea that some people are more creative than others. But we're not training creativity in the right way.'

So many of us feel overwhelmed. Setting boundaries allows you work in a more sustainable—and less reactive—way.

People are stubborn. Once they have a belief, they struggle to reimagine something new. Now, if people are stubborn, leaders can be hard-headed and impossible to change! Not really. However, it is how we feel sometimes. We hold tight to our ideals. We believe we know best. 

Too often, when we need to make a difficult decision, we rush through it to avoid sitting with uncomfortable emotions. But channelling those emotions — a process the author calls “emotional bookending” — can help us ensure that we’ve correctly identified the decision we have to make and set us up to move forward with clarity and confidence. The process is as simple as taking the time to identify 1) the emotions you feel as you face your decision, and 2) the emotions you want to feel as you’re looking at your decision in the rearview mirror. What do you see? How is your life better for a satisfying decision outcome?

The concept is so complex that scientists still argue whether it exists or if it is an illusion.

More than just a distraction, mind-wandering (and its cousin, daydreaming) may help us prepare for the future

Researchers found that people who have fun on the job are more creative and productive.

A simple, non-math heavy explanation of two popular tree-based machine learning models.

Irrationality may be a consequence of the brain’s ravenous energy needs.

Research shows you can reset your exhausted brain with small doses of "soft fascination."