Thinking about your goals changes how you see the world. It also dramatically increases your willingness and ability to accomplish those goals. Case in point: Researchers flashed circles on a…

After 27 years of teaching, I can say with absolute certainty that reading, writing, and mathematics are critical to a child's success. Science, social studies, and all of the other…

I write a lot. Ten published books and another coming out this year. Five currently unpublished books, plus about a dozen unpublished picture books and another half dozen partially written…

The next time you're in a restaurant and a server looks at your nearly finished plate and asks, "Are you still working on that," the correct response is this: "I'm…

When determining the best strategy in a competition of any kind — sport, game, business, or a simple verbal argument — it's often best to ask: What strategy would my…

It's been well-known for many decades that exercise benefits our health. We knew from studies in the 1950s comparing London bus drivers and London bus conductors who lived in identical…

A recent study on the placebo effect of sleep-tracking devices — often called "orthodontia "— has shown that sleep trackers can influence people's perception of sleep quality, even when the data…

The Pentagon—under the orders of the Secretary of Defense—removed references to the military careers of Jackie Robinson, the Tuskegee Airmen, the Navajo Code Talkers, Vietnam-era Medal of Honor recipient Maj.…

My friend's golf club, which I may want to join one day, has a stupid rule: You must wear a belt and tuck in your shirt while playing golf. Can…

In exchanging emails recently with my former kindergarten teacher, she wrote: "I taught for 35 years, and towards the end, they made us do away with centers, and I was…