July 2013

by Sumitha from PickTheBrain Your life is good. Just look at the “world news” section of any news site and you’ll know its true. And yet, there is this undercurrent of discontent, unhappiness and sadness that underscores your life as you go about your day. How is it...

Too often we read too many negative news stories and too often it's too easy to feel hopeless and helpless, pessimistic and depressed. So one can either stop reading or watching the news OR find some of the many wonderful good news stories that our...

by Paula Davis-Laack for the Huffington Post For the past four years, I have been studying, writing, and talking about what makes people resilient and better able to handle stress. Much of my work involves helping people identify the mindsets and faulty assumptions that undercut their...

By Jon Meacham  Sitting in his small two-room suite in the bricklayer Jacob Graff’s house at Seventh and Market Streets in Philadelphia — he hated the flies from nearby stables and fields — Thomas Jefferson used a small wooden writing desk (a kind of 18th century...

by News Ltd's Keiran Campbell IT'S no longer just a battle with our ever-expanding waistlines. Australia is on the cusp of becoming a nation of mentally obese. Alarming new research suggests 25 per cent of people aged between 16 and 34 spend more than 21 hours online...