The year was 1847 and a young baby boy, the youngest of seven, was born in Ohio. He was a rather sickly child and only three of his siblings survived until adulthood. He had very little formal education leaving school at the age of 9 (although I heard one story that he was kicked out…

PAUSE – Pause; Attend; Unplug; Space; Ears; Where is your attention now? I invite you to close your eyes for about one minute and notice where your attention is… Pause… Well did you? Or are you too busy to pause? Maybe you’re just wondering, what’s the point? What’s the point of pausing? What’s the point of…

Just returned from delivering a course on Mindfulness in Business in Luxembourg for a global financial company. It’s interesting how a lot of the time we turn mindfulness meditation into something that’s quite complicated and even esoteric – we think we need to be some sort of “Monk” and/or everything needs to be absolutely perfect…

What do originality and invention look like in the brain? In this interview with New York Times columnist Carl Zimmer as part of Big Think’s partnership with 92Y’s Seven Days of Genius series, neuroscientist Heather Berlin explains current research into creative “flow states”, examining what happens in the brain when rappers and jazz musicians improvise.

Use each letter of the words in the triangle to memorise the following 9 ways to learn more effectively, enjoyably and easily! 1. I Can – Believe it or Believe it not! As Henry Ford once said “Whether you believe you can do something or whether you believe you can’t you’re right!“. Decide to believe in yourself – your potential…

Have you ever driven into work and wondered how you got there? Have you ever heard a song in the morning and it stuck in your head all day? Have you ever thought you forgot someone’s name and then later that day, relaxing or watching television, their name suddenly popped into your head? These are…