How to train yourself to generate better ideas. It’s not hard to come up with a great idea. What’s hard is to develop the habits that enable us to come up with great ideas. The extent to which we incorporate these habits into our lives ultimately determines the...

You’re running around with a million things to do, and you’ve barely made a dent in your to-do list. Then someone asks you to take on a project you definitely don’t have time for, and you answer “yes” without thinking. Learning to say “no” is an ongoing challenge, but...

Who’s ready for some fucking clickbait? You? Alright, listen. I’m going to give you the answer in this first paragraph and spare you, busy and weary knowledge-seeker. The key to sucking less at things is: Incremental improvement via conscious repetition. There you go....

Iseem to be teaching a lot of people in their 20’s lately about negotiating. There’s an art to creating a mutual win also known as negotiating. Negotiating is a skill many people never learn. That’s why we say yes to an offer we’re not happy with or have regrets that...

You would think that the safeguarding of customer passwords and other credentials would be a top priority for IT professionals, but as we all know from repeated reports of data breaches, hackers time and again have outwitted the cyberguardians. To understand why,...

Obviously, not all publicity is good publicity. But rarely in the course of promoting a movie or TV show does the cast manage to make the idea of watching that movie or show sound physically unbearable. Such was the case on Wednesday, though, when the New York...

Ever wonder why you have great chemistry with some colleagues and butt heads with others? It comes down to your working style, says Kim Christfort, coauthor of Business Chemistry: Practical Magic for Crafting Powerful Work Relationships and national managing director...

Every cup of coffee you drink comes a glass half-full (or half-empty, depending on your mood) of insatiable questions. Outside of cannabis and maybe alcohol, coffee is probably the most misunderstood, readily available vice. For instance, you may have heard coffee...

Cursiosity has a lot to do with getting smarter. Learning is not just limited to the classroom anymore. It’s a life-long process that can enrich your knowledge every day. And the good news is that you access free online resources anywhere to help you grow. Your...

Politics, race and religion could all be fair game for dinnertime conversation with John McAfee, but if you’re a blockchain skeptic, you might want to keep your mouth shut. McAfee, the computer programmer and businessman behind the once-multibillion-dollar software...