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I’ll admit, before I started Further I didn’t have much use for personal development stuff. Being in the online publishing business, I found the endless parade of platitudes and shallow advice to be fairly inconsequential. My attitude was probably a bit cynical. But people who think the latest mind hack, two-day seminar, or inspirational guru …
Isn’t it odd that some people seem to seek out anger and offense? It’s as if the lack of something to complain about is a vacuum that nature abhors. Maybe it’s people who think that Starbucks switching to a red cup is somehow killing Christmas. Or maybe it’s the reaction to people who think a …
Are you in an unhealthy relationship … with your phone? Researchers at Iowa State University are trying to quantify what they’ve coined “nomophobia” (or, no-mobile-phone-phobia): The feelings of anxiety or distress that some people experience when not having their phone, and The degree to which we depend on phones to complete basic tasks and to …
So, if you have’t heard this news yet, you’re probably hiding out in a cave, gnawing on the flesh of a fresh kill. Drop the bone, back away, and listen up. The World Health Organization announced that “eating processed meat like hot dogs, ham and bacon raises the risk of colon cancer.” Plus, eating red …
Let’s do this … here are the newest top ten resources that will help you live your best life. We’ll kick things off with a topic we’ve covered before — fake productivity. All that matters is what you accomplish, not how hard you work, right?
Let’s do this … here are the newest top ten resources that will help you live your best life. We’ll kick things off with a topic we’ve covered before — fake productivity. All that matters is what you accomplish, not how hard you work, right?
Welcome to Further! Here are this week’s top ten resources that will help you live your best life. Today’s lead article is a bit out there on the futuristic side, but human intelligence augmentation is coming, one way or another. Can you imagine that in as little as 15 years, your neocortex could be connected …
Greetings from sunny Southern California and the last day of my vacation (it’s been unseasonably hot … but it’s still hard to complain). Thanks for letting me have last week off, I truly needed the break. But now, alas, it’s time to jump on a plane back home. Enjoy this week’s issue while I’m up …
I’ve discovered something from writing 41 feature articles for Further over the previous 41 weeks … a potential book. A book about the intersection of happiness, motivation, and personal growth. It wasn’t my intention to write a book. It’s almost become a badge of honor that I’m known for teaching people to write, yet seem …
further: feature When it comes to convincing others to act in the way you’d hope, both heart and mind need to be involved. Of course “heart” is also in our heads, as an emotional connection rather than a purely rational one. If you’ve had any sales training, studied copywriting, or explored ancient principles of rhetoric, …
further: feature If you want to lose weight, controlling what you eat is much more effective than exercise. So it’s no wonder that at any given time, at least one in five American adults is on a diet. And yet, research featured in this month’s cover story for Scientific American Mind reveals that most people …
further: feature If you want to lose weight, controlling what you eat is much more effective than exercise. So it’s no wonder that at any given time, at least one in five American adults is on a diet. And yet, research featured in this month’s cover story for Scientific American Mind reveals that most people …