Posts Tagged ‘work’
Six favorite books of 2023 to help harness the stress response and boost curiosity, wonder, and brain health at work,
It’s hard to address important issues in our lives or in society if we are stressed, depleted, and isolated. Perhaps that’s why many of 2023’s favorite books offer approaches for real self-care. They focus on how to manage stress, find more happiness in life, seek wonder and inspiration, appreciate art, understand our personal strengths, or…
Read MoreCalm raises $75 million, expands into corporate mental health and wellness
Calm Meditation App Hits $2 Billion Value With Lightspeed, Goldman Backing (Bloomberg News): Calm, maker of a meditation, sleep and relaxation app, doubled its valuation to $2 billion after raising capital from existing backers including Lightspeed Venture Partners, TPG and Insight Partners.
Read MoreFast Forward to 2040: How to prepare for the new era in brain enhancement that will change the way we think, work, and heal
Decades from now when our augmented brains have enhanced our cognitive function and transformed nearly every aspect of our lives, many of us will look back and wonder why we didn’t do more to prepare for these inevitable changes. Government leaders may grapple with the runaway effects of AI and brain enhancement on geopolitics. Companies…
Read MoreStudy shows how online mindfulness interventions can reduce work-related rumination and fatigue, and improve sleep quality
__________ Work these days often comes with long hours, emotionally draining colleagues, and complex problems that require an enormous amount of mental energy. So it’s no surprise that many of us have a hard time leaving work-related thoughts at the office. “Surveys have shown that between 16 and 25 percent of the workforce have regular…
Read More“I am excited”: Making Stress Work for You, Instead of Against You
— How much stress is good for you? In 1908, Robert Mearns Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson designed an experiment that would begin to tackle the question, “How much stress is good for you?” The researchers tracked mice to see how stress would affect their ability to learn. Simple—yet painful, because how do you stress out mice?
Read MoreManaging brains, not bodies, in the knowledge economy
This Outdated Approach To Productivity Is Bad For Your Brain (Fast Company): “Your car has parts that perform specific tasks. The radiator cools the engine. The spark plugs ignite the gas. The intake manifold distributes air and gas evenly to the cylinders. We think of a car this way because a car is a machine.…
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