Reading Habits of Ultra-Successful People

An article on Medium asks, "Want to know one habit ultra-successful people have in common? They read. A lot." Warren Buffett would read 600-1000 ...

What Actors Have Done to Prepare for a Role

For her role in Black Swan, Natalie Portman trained with New York City Ballet dancer Mary Helen Bowers for eight hours a day, six days a week for the ...

As Adults We Ask 119 Less Questions Every Day

Writer Ralph B. Smith once made an observation that children ask roughly 125 questions per day and adults ask about six questions per day, so somewhere ...

Mozart Worked Hard to Be Creative

In 1815, Germany's General Music Journal published a letter in which allegedly Mozart described his creative process:

When I am, as it were, completely ...

Research Finds Link Between Stress and Happiness

From 2005 to 2006, researchers from the Gallup World Poll asked more than 125,000 people from 121 countries one question: Did you feel a great deal of ...

Faking Cultural Literacy (and Christianity)

In a New York Times article titled "Faking Cultural Literacy," Karl Greenfield argues that today's social media lets us pretend to know ...

Introducing Amazon's Very First Customer

John Wainwright was the first person, not affiliated with Amazon, to purchase a book from Amazon. The book Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies by Douglas ...

Actor Nick Nolte's Advice on Failure

When asked by GQ magazine about the best advice he has to offer, actor Nick Nolte said,

This is going to sound strange, but my best advice is to accept ...

Psychiatrists Identify Fear of Growing Up

Like Peter Pan many people have fears or reservations about the growing up. Fortunately, most of us get over it. But there's a bizarre, tragic exception ...

Pro Football Player Recommits to Christ

Jason Brown was the highest paid center in the NFL, playing for the St. Louis Rams. In late 2011, Jason had two children, and a mansion with two fully-stocked ...