Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
“I just don’t sleep enough. But I’ve never met someone very successful who, at the end of their life, says: ‘I wish I slept more.’” Robert Herjavec—entrepreneur and shark on ABC’s Shark Tank Why brag about not taking care of yourself? Going around tired, showing poor judgment, having less energy…
Did someone or some situation affect you so much that they inspired a dream that night? If so, there are two big questions to ask. Answering them can save you aggravation and improve communication. Living your life, meeting people, and encountering troubling situations during the day trigger dreams at night. When you figure out what…
A religious man was stuck on top of his roof. Floodwaters surrounded him and are getting higher. Another man comes by in a rowboat. “Get in, get in!” the man says. The religious man replies, “No, I have faith in God; he will grant me a miracle.” Later, a motorboat comes by. The guy at…
They say if you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got. Except that’s not true. Sometimes times and circumstances change. Despite what Law of Attraction proponents suggest, you can’t control the world with your mind. Simply wishing doesn’t make anything so. Your routine can become set in stone like a statue.…
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. — Confucius It might be natural for you to get a lot of satisfaction from entertaining others. Someone else might get much satisfaction from accumulating a fortune. Still…
It looked like one of those trucks from the 60s, a faded light green Chevy. The truck was struggling to get up a hill. Yes, the hill was steep, but not unforgivingly so. The truck should have been able to surmount it, but its engine was having difficulty summoning enough power. The tachometer shot up.…
If you’re honest and can face the reality of your dreams—paying close attention—you’ll learn the lessons life teaches. As with any lesson, the quicker you learn these lessons the better off you are. By being a good student of life you avoid repeating the same mistakes. You find out what makes you happy. You learn…
People are always looking for an edge. They want to find shortcuts. They want to come ahead of their competition. Adopting a new technology before everyone else can give you that edge—as long as there aren’t any unforeseen side effects. That’s will be the main argument for getting a neural implant. It allows you to…
Getting to know yourself through reflection and dream journaling can be painful. We all have an ideal, a belief about who we are. Our ideal self does certain things. Our ideal self thinks certain things. This ideal breaks down. I shouldn’t go around thinking about chocolate chip cookies all the time. You’re a little out…
Find yourself waking up angry because of a dream? Don’t let it go! Don’t forget it. Go on, write it down! We might do something only because it makes sense to do it. We brush our teeth, for example, because we want to avoid cavities. It makes sense to avoid cavities. They’re painful and…
A child of seventeen—a girl—country bred—untaught—ignorant of war, the use of arms, and the conduct of battles—modest, gentle, shrinking—yet throws away her shepherd’s crook and clothes herself in steel, and fights her way through a hundred and fifty of hostile territory, never losing heart or hope and never showing fear and comes—she to whom a…
Buy 10 drinks, your 11th is free. Stay five nights, your sixth is free. Accumulate 10,000 points by flying, shopping, and bonuses, and you get a free flight. All kinds of businesses have customer loyalty programs. Should you make a personal loyalty program where you reward yourself for being loyal to yourself? Almost every business…
One common reason people take narcotics and hallucinogens is to “relax” and “chill out.” They want to take the edge off of the hardness of life. The dangers and disadvantages of those often-illegal drugs are well known. Who hasn’t heard of overdoses, the lost families, the problems that they cause? Why in Hell would anyone…