Category: Personal Improvement

If you’re going to take a memory-jogging hot tip from anyone, it should be the folks at Johns Hopkins University. Recently, Jason Fischer, PhD, a cognitive neuroscientist in the university’s department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, found something strange: When we’re on the hunt for something misplaced, remembering the actual texture of the object can be more helpful in uncovering it than recalling its visual attributes. 

I’ve got a bit of experience working at large companies. IBM has around 430,000 employees. Salesforce has 35,000. And when I was at Adobe it had around 13,000. I’ve learned a few things along the way about working in a big business. What’s good? What’s not? How do you survive? And more importantly, how do you thrive? Feel free to add your own pearls of wisdom in the comments to inspire others.

You don’t need to be an artist to get the most out of bullet journaling. Here’s how anyone can get started using it as a mindfulness tool.

“So, what do you do?” “Where do you live?” “How do you know [Name of Host]?” are some of my least favorite kind of questions, because they don’t elicit interesting answers.  If you want to get to know someone, you’ll have to do a lot better than this.

Helpfully, the Harvard Business Review has now published 8 great questions to ask at any kind of networking event. They’ve also written up their findings on how colleagues get on better, enjoy work more, and stay connected for longer if they share common experiences outside of work. Sociologists refer to these connections where there is an overlap of roles or affiliations from a different social context as multiplex ties.

I was having trouble carving out time to write until I started using this science-backed method, which can be applied to any sort of goal.