13 skills hard-to-learn skills that will pay off forever
The best things in life may be free, but that doesn’t mean they won’t take time, sweat, and perseverance to acquire. That’s especially the case when it comes to learning important life skills. To...
View ArticleLimiting Children’s Screen Time: We Were Wrong
How much time should kids be allowed to stare into their screens like zombies? New guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics upturns conventional thinking on the matter, showing that a...
View ArticleThink exponentially and better predict the future
We humans aren’t great predictors of the future. For most of history, our experience has been “local and linear.” Not much change occurred generation to generation: We used the same tools, ate the same...
View ArticleThe collapse of parenting and why parents need to grow up
For modern families, the adage “food is love” might well be more true put another way: food is power. Not long ago, Dr. Leonard Sax was at a restaurant and overheard a father say to his daughter,...
View ArticleAmericans reject the ‘homeschool myth’— experts say it might be better than...
During Betsy DeVos’ recent three-hour confirmation hearing to become President Donald Trump’s education secretary, charter schools came up no fewer than 60 times. Homeschooling was mentioned once....
View Article11 skills every 24-year-old should learn
If, like many people, you stumble out of college in your early 20s, unsure of what to do next, you can be forgiven for needing a few years to get your bearings. The transition from school to work (or...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs: How To Define Your Future In The Exponential Age
Recently, I’ve been impressed by a vision of the future as shared by serial entrepreneur and CEO Udo Gollub. He has noted that what happened to Kodak will happen to many industries in the next 10...
View ArticleFor decades, the blind have used canes to get around. Now a special wristband...
Sunu has developed a wristband that emits a silent, high frequency sound and vibration to alert the visually impaired of obstacles within their environment. Watching Fernando Albertorio stroll down a...
View Article21 trends these executives saw in 2017
Here’s what has been gaining momentum in the last 11 months. Want to know what to expect next year? Take some cues from the hot trends gaining momentum in the last 11 months. Here’s what nearly two...
View ArticleA third of Millennials aren’t sure the earth is round, survey finds
CBS Local — A new survey has found that a third of young millennials in the U.S. aren’t convinced the Earth is actually round. The national poll reveals that 18 to 24-year-olds are the largest group in...
View ArticleHere’s how old you should be when you start a company, according to science....
The National Bureau of Economic Research used Census data to find the average age of super-successful founders. Company founders can be as young as in their teens or as old as in their 80s. But is...
View ArticleThese professions attract the highest number of psychopaths
Psychopaths are difficult to spot most of the time. They’re not the “Jack the Ripper” caricatures you see in films or read about in books. Often, psychopaths appear normal, which makes them hard to...
View Article‘Following your passion’ is dead- Here’s what to replace it with
Following your passion presupposes that you have one. But many people don’t. Develop a passion, don’t follow it. It’s what kids do. When someone in your life is asking the important “What should I do...
View ArticleYour kids hate your smartphone addiction
From CNET Magazine: It isn’t easy balancing “me time” and parenting. I talked to experts to find out how. I can’t stay off my phone. And I’m afraid it’s hurting my 2-year-old son. Sometimes it’s a...
View ArticleShould we retire ‘Retirement’?
As our lives have been getting longer and healthier – compared to prior generations – some people advocate doing away with the concept of retirement altogether. In support of that idea, increasing...
View ArticleConfused by expiration dates? You’re not Alone. Here’s what they really mean
Most Americans are needlessly tossing out packaged food—not because it’s gone bad, but because they take the date stamped on it far too literally. That’s according to a recent study published in the...
View ArticleThere’s a retirement crisis in America where most will be unable to afford a...
The three “legs” of the retirement “stool” (private savings, pensions, and Social Security) are all in dire shape. At Vanguard, the median 401(k) account value for an investor age 65 and older is a...
View ArticleWhy the generalist has a bright future in an increasingly automated world
The age of the specialist is giving way to the age of the Renaissance person. It was only a matter of time before a precocious set of tweens came along and broke the damn spelling bee. And lo,...
View ArticleWhy you should try micro mastery
The wellness case for learning new skills In the summer of 2016 I was very unhappy. I was coming up on my year anniversary of living in London, where we had moved from Brooklyn for my husband’s job,...
View ArticleSmart glasses, smart designer babies and the future of work
John B. Goodenough, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry last month, struggled to learn to read. “Back then,” he says, “You were just a backwards student.” His experience is still all too...
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