Brain-Training Games Make You Better at Brain-Training Games.
Do brain training games work? Seven researchers read the whole literature. Gains on the trained task are real and reliable. Almost nothing carries into everyday thinking.
Why Am I Still Solving It at Eleven at Night?
Trying to switch off from work in the evening is usually treated as a discipline problem. The recovery research treats it as a measurable state, and the bill for failing it arrives in the morning.
You Didn’t Stop Caring. You Stopped Having Words.
Having no energy to talk when I get home reads as coldness from the outside. In the one study that measured it properly, the quiet was not the problem. It was the repair.
It Isn’t Perfectionism. I Went and Checked.
Why do I procrastinate on small tasks has an answer that removes the usual explanation entirely. In the largest review of the evidence, perfectionism barely registered.
Page 41. Again. I Bought This Book in March.
Why do I forget what I read has an answer that is oddly specific: the eyes keep going, the attention leaves, and you are the last person in the room to notice.
Gratitude Journals: What Two Meta-Analyses Measured, and Against What
Do gratitude journals work? Two independent meta-analyses covering more than 5,000 participants agree the effect is real and small, and that it shrinks when compared against any other activity rather than against nothing.
You Didn’t Get Softer. You Ran Out of Room.
Why do I cry at small things has an answer that fits the pattern exactly: it is the blocked errand rather than the sad news, and short sleep is what turns the volume up on precisely that category.
Someone Says Your Name and the Sentence You Had Is Gone
Why do I go blank in meetings is a question with an uncomfortable answer: in the pressure research, the people who lost the most ground were the ones with the most capacity to lose.
I Cleared Three Hours. I Reorganised a Drawer.
You can’t focus with no distractions because the distractions were never the problem. Six studies found what unfinished tasks do to a quiet room, and what removes it.
Nothing Slipped Today. You Are Wrecked Anyway, and That Is the Finding.
Constant interruptions at work do not usually make you late. A 2008 study found interrupted people finished faster, at the same quality — and paid for it in stress and effort.
