by MAI Team | Mind/Body Connection, Motivation, Physical Fitness, Physical Health
Bikini season is right around the corner, and our fancy turns to thoughts of a svelte silhouette. We weigh the benefits of vanity against the pain of deprivation. The moderates (or faint of heart, depending on your viewpoint) swear off bread and wine for a week or...
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, Conflicting Ideas, Feedback, Happiness, Inner Strength, Motivation, Perseverance, Willpower
Meet Clocky, the mobile alarm clock. At the appointed hour, it rolls off your nightstand and tears around the room, forcing you out of bed to shut it off. Invented by MIT student Guari Nanda, it sold 35,000 units in the first two years on the market, at $50 a pop,...
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...
by MAI Team | Career, Happiness, High Performance, Motivation, Values
If you want people to perform better, the answer is simple, pay them more, right? Not so, it turns out. Higher financial rewards actually cause a decrease in performance on tasks requiring even rudimentary cognitive skill. Excuse me? This is what Dan Pink shares with...
