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August 2018 The first time I ran a mile it hurt . It wasn’t fun. “Never run again!”, I told myself. I’ve since run several marathons and thousands of miles a year. It’s transformed by happiness, my he

We are remarkably inefficient at skill development. Understanding the nuances of how repetitions, situations, and feedback interconnect offers us a few small changes that lead to remarkable improvements in skill acquisition. *** We think that skill development is a function of repetitions. The more…

Idleness is a lost art. That’s the message behind Andrew Smart’s book: Autopilot: The Art and Science of Doing Nothing. “Being idle,” he writes, “is one of the most important activities in life.” “I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely…

By Lisa Rapaport , Reuters Health 4 Min Read (Reuters Health) - People who visit the sauna frequently may be less likely to develop heart and lung diseases or to get the flu than those who rarely go,

Back in 2006, when the iPhone was a mere rumor, Palm CEO Ed Colligan was asked if he was worried: “We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.” What if Steve…

Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield, authors of The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do and How They Do It So Well, came out with an op-ed in the New York Times. The interesting argument, one that is echoed by Charles Darwin, is that the to success is a brutal self-assessment. “Discipline…

We get a little confused when deciding if a particular human behavior is cultural or biological. Is homosexuality a natural act or unnatural? How about Facebook? Is it unnatural human behavior? Abortion? Non-procreative sex? Slavery? Mixing of races? Many of these are either explicitly or certainly…

Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told and acquired a conscience which has kept me working hard down to the present moment. But although my conscience has…

Profiles Is the head of Y Combinator fixing the world, or trying to take over Silicon Valley? October 3, 2016 Altman says, “Most people want to be accepted, so they won’t take risks that could make them look crazy.”Illustration by R. Kikuo Johnson One balmy May evening, thirty of Silicon Valley’s…