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Your Most Productive Self

How To Schedule Wellness Into Your Workday And Still Get Stuff Done

Here are a few tips for taking better care of yourself from 6 a.m. until bedtime that won’t get in the way of your work.

How To Schedule Wellness Into Your Workday And Still Get Stuff Done

Here’s How To Trick Your Brain Into Liking Winter

Or at least avoiding a seasonal tailspin as the literal and emotional daylight dims.

Here’s How To Trick Your Brain Into Liking Winter

This Is The Emotionally Intelligent Way To Handle Stage Fright

Rather than beating yourself up about being nervous, you need to acknowledge, and even embrace, your jitters. Here’s how.

This Is The Emotionally Intelligent Way To Handle Stage Fright

Other People Can Help You Beat Imposter Syndrome (And Never Know It)

You don’t have to completely trust that you’re up to snuff. You just need to trust people who believe that you are.

Other People Can Help You Beat Imposter Syndrome (And Never Know It)

How Being A Product Designer Has Helped Me Redesign My Life

Turns out the same principles for building consumer apps can help you decide whether to redecorate and even improve how you talk to your little brother.

How Being A Product Designer Has Helped Me Redesign My Life

Hate Saying No? Here’s What To Say Instead

You don’t have to feel guilty anymore.

Hate Saying No? Here’s What To Say Instead

This Is Why Being A Morning Person Will Make You Better At Your Job

Four science-backed reasons why you do your best work in the morning.

This Is Why Being A Morning Person Will Make You Better At Your Job

Here’s What Happened To My Productivity When I Started Eating Breakfast

I haven’t eaten breakfast in nearly five years. Turns out it might really be the most important meal of the day if you want to get work done.

Here’s What Happened To My Productivity When I Started Eating Breakfast

Vacation Season Is Winding Down, So It’s Time To Take a “Workcation”

A change of location can help you become hyperfocused on your goals.

Vacation Season Is Winding Down, So It’s Time To Take a “Workcation”

This Is The Only Type Of Brain Training That Works, According To Science

Most “brain training” programs are little more than memory games.

This Is The Only Type Of Brain Training That Works, According To Science

What Happened When I Ate The Best Brain Foods For A Week

This is what cutting out sugar and dairy and eating lots of fish and blueberries did to my productivity.

What Happened When I Ate The Best Brain Foods For A Week

These Five Bad Email Habits Are Why No One Gets Back To You On Time

Some of the most common email-writing tendencies might be slowing down response times.

These Five Bad Email Habits Are Why No One Gets Back To You On Time

Three Time Management Hacks For Fighting Boredom At Work

It might have less to do with the tasks your job involves than when you’re doing them.

Three Time Management Hacks For Fighting Boredom At Work

Yes, You Can Still Get Stuff Done With A Hands-Off Boss

There’s likely one of two reasons why your boss is keeping their distance. Here’s what to do in both situations.

Yes, You Can Still Get Stuff Done With A Hands-Off Boss

10 Tricks To Immediately Make Your Day More Productive

Spinning your wheels? Try these tried and true ways of getting more done–now.

10 Tricks To Immediately Make Your Day More Productive

Four Times You Shouldn’t Apologize (Including When It’s Your Fault)

You can show your emotional intelligence by finding solutions, not yet another “I’m sorry.”

Four Times You Shouldn’t Apologize (Including When It’s Your Fault)

How I Use Weekends And Mondays To Stay Productive (And Sane) All Week

One entrepreneur shares three habits that help him de-stress and stay focused.

How I Use Weekends And Mondays To Stay Productive (And Sane) All Week

The Real Reason Why You’re Easily Distracted Has Nothing To Do With Technology

The fact that your attention can get so easily pulled away might point to an internal struggle. Here’s how to figure out what’s really going on.

The Real Reason Why You’re Easily Distracted Has Nothing To Do With Technology

My Ambitious Personal Goal Cost Me My Job Performance

Luckily, everything got better.

My Ambitious Personal Goal Cost Me My Job Performance

Six Words And Phrases That Make Everyone Hate Working With You

Some of the most common expressions carry subtle undertones of resentment when you use them around the office.

Six Words And Phrases That Make Everyone Hate Working With You

Ideas

Corporations’ green promises are often undermined by their lobbying

The four-day work week is good for business

Why Bill Gates backed a $30 million fight against Alzheimer’s

Entertainment

Daveed Diggs wants to represent “as many aspects of blackness as possible”

Mamma Mia! ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus reveals how the band keeps growing its empire

How everything–everything–changed for Netflix this week

Co.Design

Watch the future of manufacturing emerge from a giant vat of gel

Yes, Nike’s $250 Vaporfly shoes really can make you faster

Cities & Spaces

This is the world’s most beautiful TV news set

Fast Company

How to watch Shark Week 2018 live without cable

Three hacks to help your brain learn stuff faster

How a small worker-controlled farm collective could transform labor for decades