by MAI Team | Flourish, Flourishing, Happiness, Mental Fitness, Motivation, Optimism, Pessimism, Physical Health, Positive Psychology, Positivity, Resilience, Strengths, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries
Trevor Greene, retired Canadian Forces Captain, can now do 30 squats while gripping a ladder attached to a wall. This would not be remarkable in any way except he had an axe put through the back of his head five years ago in Afghanistan. He had been sitting with...
by MAI Team | Changing our Minds, Mental Fitness, Mindfulness, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries
Picture a power plant with three separate layers of technology from three different eras, all still in operation, stacked one atop the other. The most recent layer, computer technology, is functioning via vacuum tubes from the 1940s, which in turn control still older...
by MAI Team | ADHD, Aging, Anxiety, Attention Deficit Disorder, Education, Intelligence, Mental Fitness, Mind/Body Connection, Motivation, Physical Fitness, Physical Health, Resilience, Self Confidence, Stress
Students from Naperville, Illinois sure are smart. In 1999 Naperville’s District 203 eighth graders scored sixth in math and first in the world in science in an international standards test called the TIMSS (Trends In International Mathematics and Science...