Not all projections are evidence-based. Parenting is a case in point. Too many parents project their failed dreams onto their offspring. There are many reasons why childhood anxiety and depression rates are soaring. Along with Covid restrictions and social media FOMO, unrealistic parental demands are at or near the top of the list. Source Abbigail…

Comparing yourself to others is a loser’s game. There’s ALWAYS someone with more. Last week, my best friend and I competed in a Spartan Race at Boston’s Fenway Park. This hellscape consists of a 3.5-mile run along the stadium’s stairs and twenty “obstacles” interspersed along the way. These included rope climbs, wall vaults, monkey rings,…

A pricey estate attorney can’t bequeath this asset to your beneficiaries. Sometimes multi-millionaires are at a considerable disadvantage to the common folk. Your health impacts future generations. Simple exercise provides more lasting value than stocks and bonds. A recent landmark study turned up in The Washington Post. Based on research in mice, the findings suggest…

Spending the day pondering what to be offended about on social media isn’t additive. There’s another direct road to unhappiness. Embrace the recency effect at your peril. The recency effect is a cognitive bias in which those items, ideas, or arguments that came last are remembered more clearly than those that came first.  In other…